Stencyl Alternatives

Godot Engine

Godot is a fully featured, open source, MIT licensed game engine. It focuses on having great tools, and a visual oriented workflow that can export to PC, Mobile and Web platforms. It is a cross-platform 2D and 3D game engine and game development IDE. You can port your game to run on Windows, Linux, Mac OSx/iOS, BSD, Android, BlackBerry 10, HTML5, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita, and Nintendo 3DS. FEATURES Visual editor, full of mature tools.

Features:

• GdScript
• 2D Game Creation
• 2D Game Engine
• Efficiency
• Intuitive Nodes
• Lightweight
• Portable
• Scene Management
• Visual Programming
• 2D Game
• 3D Game Engine
• 3d renderer
• Asset Pipeline
• Export to HTML
• Modular System
• Multiplayer
• Scene System
• Scripting
• Support for Windows Hello

Unity

Unity is a multi-platform game development tool, designed from the start to ease creation. A fully integrated professional application, Unity offers the free Personal Edition with all features, a Plus subscription at 25$ a month and a Pro subscription at 125$ a month with extra services such as Cloud building.

Features:

• C# Scripting
• IDE
• Networking and Multiplayer
• Vectorize raster images

Construct 2

Scirra Construct is a 2D game development engine with a focus on building games visually. No programming is required though the software uses a visual method for event handling that relies on programming concepts like variables, loops and conditions. It provides a powerful form of scripting that's as easy as clicking, dragging and dropping. Construct exports to HTML5 with export options for online sites like Kongregate and https://alternativeto .

Features:

• Drag n drop
• 2D Game
• No coding required
• Portable
• Visual Programming
• Web-Based

GDevelop

GDevelop is an open-source game creation software, allowing to make games for the web (HTML5), desktop or mobile phones (iOS/Android). No programming or coding skills are required! It is easy to use and powerful enough for advanced users. Game logic is created thanks to an event based system, using conditions which have to been filled so as to execute actions. These events are compiled by GDevelop, as ordinary programming languages, making them simple but powerful.

Features:

• No coding required
• Visual Programming
• Material design
• Event management
• Multiple languages
• Multiplatform
• Multiplatform Export
• 2D and 3D physics
• Clean design
• HTML5 Support
• IDE
• Support for Javascript
• No coding required
• Particle Engine

Scratch

Scratch is a programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art -- and share your creations on the web. As young people create and share Scratch projects, they learn important mathematical and computational ideas, while also learning to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively.

Features:

• Blocks
• Visual Programming
• 2D Game Creation
• Cross-platform
• Drag n drop
• Kid friendly
• Web-Database

Construct 3

Get started with Construct 3, powerful software designed specifically for you to make high performance and beautiful games effortlessly. No need to learn a complex language, Construct relies on it's tried and tested event system. Events are the heart of Construct. They are an intuitive drag-and-drop alternative to programming.

Features:

• Browser based
• Multiplayer
• Animations
• Visual Programming
• 2D Game
• Support for Android Things
• Cloud sync
• Drag n drop
• Sync with Dropbox
• Export to HTML
• Frame by frame animation
• Full text search
• Sync with Google Drive
• HTML5 Support
• Integrated Web Browser
• Intuitive Nodes
• Keyframe animation
• Support for Layers
• Live Preview
• No coding required
• Online Multiplayer Plugin
• Photo effects
• Portable
• Realtime filter effects
• Upload directly to Google Drive
• User behavior simulation
• Visual Editing
• Webcam Effects

LÖVE

As you probably know by now, LÖVE is a framework for making 2D games in the Lua programming language. LÖVE is totally free, and can be used in anything from friendly open-source hobby projects, to evil, closed-source commercial ones.

Features:

• 2D Game
• Collaborative Workspaces

Ren'Py

Ren'Py is a free and cross-platform visual novel engine that helps you use words, pictures, and sounds to tell stories with the computer. Its easy and efficient script language makes it possible for non-programmers to make visual novels, while its Python support allows for complex simulation games.

Cocos2d-x

cocos2d-x is a cross platform open source free 2D game engine for mobile gamedev, that is fast and stable, easy to learn and use.

Features:

• Lightweight
• OPENGL

Wick Editor

The Wick Editor is a free and open-source tool for creating games, animations, and everything in-between. It's designed to be the most accessible tool for creating multimedia projects on the web. Your creations can run on any device with a web browser - that means mobile too. And since the Wick Editor lives in the browser, you don't have to download any extra software to use it!

Features:

• HTML5 Support
• Support for Layers
• Movie clips
• Tweening
• Vector Drawing
• Frame by frame
• Frame by frame animation
• Support for Javascript
• Keyframe animation
• Saving a copy of every URL you visit