Glide Engine Alternatives

Glide Engine is described as 'Glide is a SpriteKit and GameplayKit based engine for building 2d games easily, with a focus on side scrollers. Glide is developed with Swift and works on iOS, macOS and tvOS' and is a game development tool in the development category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Glide Engine for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and iPhone apps. The best Glide Engine alternative is Godot Engine, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Glide Engine are Unity, LÖVE, Fibbo and microStudio.

Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard
Glide Engine alternatives page was last updated

Alternatives list

  1. BlitzMax is a strongly-typed, garbage-collected, open-source, cross-platform programming language with built-in support for advanced 2D graphics, sound, unicode and is ideally suited to making all kinds of apps and games.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Raspberry Pi
    • Nintendo Switch
     
  2. Solar2D icon
     Like

    Solar2D is a Lua based cross-platform framework with focus on ease of iterations and usage. ideal for rapidly creating apps and games for mobile devices and desktop systems.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Android
    • iPhone
     
  3. SpriteKit icon
     Like

    SpriteKit is a general-purpose framework for drawing shapes, particles, text, images, and video in two dimensions. It leverages Metal to achieve high-performance battery-efficient rendering and 2d games and other graphics-intensive apps.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
    • Apple Watch
    • Apple TV
     
  4. WADE icon
     Like

    A unique combination of a powerful JS framework + an amazing set of authoring tools, WADE doesn't force you to do things one way or another - you are in charge!

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Google Chrome
     
  5. NasNas icon
     1 like

    NasNas is a lightweight modular 2D game framework with a focus on pixel art style games. It is entirely written in modern C++17, and doesn't have any dependency other than SFML2. It provides a clean and easy to use API.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  6. A 2D game engine based on ECS and written in 100% Swift for iOS, macOS and tvOS.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
    • Apple TV
     
  7. RCBasic icon
     1 like

    RCBasic is a free and open source dialect of the BASIC programming language. It is intended to be a simple and powerful language for developing games and multimedia software with many built-in functions to aid in game and multimedia application development.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
     
  8. GLBasic icon
     Like

    GLBasic is a cross-platform programming language aiming at game development with OpenGL.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • HP webOS
    • HTML
     
You are at page 3 of Glide Engine alternatives