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GNU/Linux Development Software Click here for manuals, magazines, tutorials, and etc. This page is being worked on, which is why you see two tables
Title	Description	Interface Type
Armory	An open-source 3D game engine with full Blender integration	GUI
BBC BASIC for SDL2	A BBC BASIC for Windows compatible version \| 32-bit \| 64-bit \| ARM	GUI
Blender Game Engine	Blender 2.79b and older includes the BGE	GUI
Bluegriffon	Web and EPUB editor	GUI
Cube	A landscape-style engine that pretends to be an indoor FPS engine	GUI
Cube 2: Sauerbraten	A free multiplayer & singleplayer first person shooter, the successor of the Cube FPS	GUI
Defold	A game engine for desktop and mobile; you must download templates to use; click here for templates (1.5.0 compatible) to save some time	GUI
Diffuse Merge Tool	Graphical tool for merging and comparing files	GUI
EDuke32 (src)	Duke Nukem 3D engine and editor; requires original files such as "DUKE3D.GRP"; see compiling from source instructions	GUI
eFTE	A lightweight, extendable, folding text editor geared toward the programmer; comes with 'nefte', an ncurses version for command-line users	GUI/Command-line; Ncurses option
Enigma+LateralGM	Easily create games with a Game Maker-like user interface and the Enigma Development Environment and export to various other systems Enigma-dev.org Game Examples - having trouble understanding LateralGM or the Game Maker Language (GML)? Grab some examples. JEIE (Jave Easy Image Editor) - a JAVA-based, sprite editor that looks just like the one from the early Game Maker versions Step by Step - 3D Tutorials - a tutorial pack of over 60 tutorials including PDF documentation explaining 3D concepts, originally from the GMC; about %60 worked directly out of the box, and the rest are working with a few slight changes.	GUI; LateralGM uses Java while Enigma is the engine
fldiff	Graphical diff program	GUI
FLUID	FLTK GUI designer Hard to find (maybe?) FLTK Widgets... FL_Table - a generic row/column widget to encapsulate rows and columns of any kind of FLTK widgets	GUI
Gambas	Integrated Development Environment; a very close Visual Basic alternative	GUI
Game Editor	2D game creation software	GUI
GB Studio	Easily create Game Boy or Game Boy Color games	GUI
Geany	A fast and lightweight IDE using GTK+	GUI
Glade	Create or open user interface designs for GTK+ applications	GUI
IDLE	Integrated Development Environment for Python	GUI
Godot	Free and open-source game creation software	GUI
GZDoom	A family of enhanced ports of the Doom engine for running on modern operating systems	GUI
Kompozer	Create web pages	GUI
Laigter	"Automatic normal map generator for sprites!"	GUI
LibreSprite	Sprite editor	GUI

GNU/Linux Software Development Tools
GUI	Command-line
LÖVE (Love2D) - a free and open-source framework that can be used to make 2D games in Lua Anim8 - an animation library for LÖVE2D Boxclip - a WYSIWYG platform editor for the LÖVE2D framework; git clone --recursive https://github.com/Jigoku/boxclip Bump.lua - collision-detection library for axis-aligned rectangles Flux - a fast, lightweight tweening library for Lua LUIGI - Lovely User Interfaces for Game Inventors LVG (Lovable Vector Graphics) - display SVGs in the Löve engine Maid64 - use this for a MUCH easier way to get window and fullscreen scaling Moonshine - add filter effects such as CRT and light bloom STI (Simple Tiled Implementation) - a Tiled map loader and renderer designed for the LÖVE framework STALKER-X - a camera module for LÖVE TESound - a sound manager for the Love2D framework WebPlayer - play games made for love2d inside the browser without plugins (webgl+javascript capable browser required) Yaoui - a UI kit for LÖVE MegaZeux - a simple game creation system (GCS) Netbeans - Quickly and easily develop desktop, mobile, and web applications with Java, JavaScript, HTML5, PHP, C/C++ and more Octave - a high-level interactive language for numerical computations OHRRPGCE - Official Hamster Republic Role Playing Game Construction Engine OpenMW - an open-source open-world RPG game engine that supports playing Morrowind Open RPG Maker - a free and open source 2D RPG creation utility, similar to the popular RPG Maker series Platinum Arts Sandbox - an open source easy to use standalone 3D Game Maker and 3D Game Design program currently based on the Cube 2 engine Page - a Python GUI generator QB64 - a QuickBasic IDE for QB64 and QB45, depending on scripts used Piping console output to a variable \| pipecom.h file QBPAINT.BAS - a paint program that saves graphic in plain text for use with QB64; QB64 required to compile Reinteract - interactive Python shell Ren'Py - a visual novel engine Slade - it's a Doom editor (Debian Repo) The WADster's Guide on the World Wide Web - Unofficial DOOM specs DOOM Sounds Index - A list to help you figure out what sound item plays what when modding SmallBASIC - "a fast and easy to learn BASIC language interpreter ideal for everyday calculations, scripts and prototypes" SMB Foundry - level editor for Super Mario Bros. 3 SpookyGhost - procedural sprite animation tool (great for wind-blowing effects) Tesseract - a first-person shooter game focused on instagib deathmatch and capture-the-flag gameplay as well as cooperative in-game map editing TIC-80 - a FREE and OPEN SOURCE fantasy computer for making, playing and sharing tiny games Tiled - tile map editor in various projections (orthogonal, isometric, and hexagonal) Twine - write interactive stories and presentations Urho3D - a free lightweight, cross-platform 2D and 3D game engine greatly inspired by OGRE and Horde3D wxGlade - a GUI designer written in Python zzt++ - a game creation system, inspired by Tim Sweeney's 1991 shareware hit ZZT	BASH - GNU Bourne-Again SHell batari - create Atari 2600 games using BASIC cc65 - a complete cross development package for 65(C)02 systems first_nes - a template for creating NES games FreeBASIC - a free/open source (GPL), BASIC compiler for Microsoft Windows, DOS and Linux dialog - display dialog boxes from shell scripts gcc - the GNU Compiler Collection git - the stupid content tracker gracon - a collection of python scripts that convert data (mostly graphics) to SNES-related formats GW-BASIC - a dialect of the BASIC programming language developed by Microsoft from BASICA, originally for Compaq hexedit - view and edit files in hexadecimal or in ASCII HTML - Hypertext Markup Language ncurses - a library to help programmers create text-based user interfaces octave - a high-level interactive language for numerical computations parallel - run programs in parallel pcbasic - a free, cross-platform emulator for the GW-BASIC family of interpreters pure-bash-bible - a collection of pure bash alternatives to external processes Pygame - a cross-platform set of Python modules designed for writing video games python - an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language qbasic - Pete's QB tutorial site shc - a generic shell script compiler yabasic - Yet Another Basic yad - display GTK+ dialogs in shell scripts

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