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.

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.

Introducing JGame JGame is a small 2D Java game engine whose high-level framework—based on sprites with automatic animation and collision detection, and a tile-based background with easy sprite ...

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.

Hey, I've had an idea for a game bouncing around in my head for a while now. As I've currently got it in my head, it would be almost entirely menu-based. (Think something along the lines of 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. To date, the GameMaker Studio family of ...