However, he would recommend Stencyl – “a fun 2D engine that I’ve heard described as Scratch on steroids” – as well as the no-code solutions offered by the retro game creation tools ...

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.

Any engine can work with effort, but some have shorter learning curves - such as Unity, GameMaker, and Godot. RPG Maker is best for turn-based RPGs, Clickteam Fusion for simpler 2D games, and ...

It’s not often that a browser company acquires a game development platform. But that’s exactly what Opera has done with YoYo Games, a British team best known for GameMaker Studio 2. The latter ...

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.

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 Technology said it has raised $50 million to fuel the growth of its open source Cocos Creator game engine. Cocos has been around for a long time as a foundation for making 2D games for ...