Want to take a crack at making your own 2D game? These are the best tools for the job, even if you're a beginner.

Unity, the popular "build once, deploy anywhere" 3D game engine, is going 2D. At the company's UNITE conference in Vancouver this morning, CEO David Helgason announced three things: official ...

GameMaker throws shade at Unity, makes its 2D engine free or $100 for most For most games, a license is either free or the cost of a medium-nice dinner.

Cocos has had great success with PC and mobile games with its 2D game engine. Now it is adding 3D to its open-source Cocos Creator 3.0.

Dubbed ‘ Aves Engine ‘, it enables developers to create games built on the ‘open web stack’ in 2D and 2.5D (pseudo-3D), utilizing modern web standards – HTML, CSS and JavaScript – and ...

The Global Market for Game Engines was valued at USD 1257 Million in the year 2024 and is projected to reach a revised size of USD 2716 Million by 2031, growing at a CAGR of 11.8% during the ...

YoYo Games launched GameMaker Studio 2 on macOS this week, bringing the popular multiplatform 2D game development engine to the Mac for the first time.