Cocos2d isn’t one engine but a family — the Python original, the famous C++ Cocos2d-x (now deprecated), and the rewritten Cocos Creator that replaced it. Here’s the untangled version history, the genuinely Cocos-built games (Geometry Dash yes, FarmVille no), current 2026 status, and how it stacks up against Unity and Godot for 2D.
GarageGames stopped selling Torque years ago — and the engine is still shipping commits. Here’s who maintains it now, which repository to clone, what it actually descends from, and how it compares to Godot and Unreal.
Moai gave indie studios a C++ core with Lua on top, and powered several notable games before development stopped. Here’s the verified status — including the date of the last commit — and the Lua engines to move to.
id Tech built the FPS genre: Doom, Quake, and thirty years of Carmack-grade engineering, now at id Tech 8. Every version, every game, all in one place.
Bork3D was a commercial C++ engine from two-person studio Bork 3D LLC, powering early iPhone and iPad games before being open-sourced in full — engine, game and art — in 2015. Here’s its verified history, the games actually built on it, and why the dormant codebase is still worth reading.
The Banshee Engine repository is a dead link, so the project looks abandoned. It isn’t — it renamed twice, dropped its editor, and shipped commits this month as B3D Framework.
Google launched Go, a new systems programming language born with concurrency, simplicity and performance in mind. Go is open source
AMD’s Framewave (FW) is a free and open-source collection of image and signal processing routines to accelerate application development, debugging,
This article presents some of the currently available options for open source C/C++ matrix libraries employable within a Linux environment.
Fifty places to find C and C++ source code, grouped by purpose: language reference, real production projects, curated libraries, and graded practice.
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