GDevelop is a full-featured, open-source game development software, allowing to create HTML5 and native games without any knowledge in a specific programming language. All the game logic is built up using an intuitive and powerful event-based system.
Getting started 
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A pre-generated documentation of the Core library, C++ and JS game engines is available here.
Links
Community
- GDevelop forums and Discord chat.
- GDevelop homepage (open-source)
- GDevelop wiki (documentation)
- Help translate GD in your language: GDevelop project on Crowdin.
Development Roadmap
- GDevelop Roadmap on Trello.com, for a global view of the features that could be added. Please vote and comment here for new features/requests.
- GitHub issue page, for technical issues and bugs.
Games
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See the Showcase of games created with GDevelop.
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Lil BUB's HELLO EARTH is a retro 8-bit mobile video game featuring Lil BUB. It's created with GDevelop and made up of equal parts science, magic, and heart.
BUB is a very special, one of a kind critter. More specifically, she is the most amazing cat on the planet... and her game is made with GDevelop!
See the project on Kickstarter! You can download the demo for iOS and Android.
License
- The Core library, the native and HTML5 game engines, the IDE, and all extensions (respectively
Core,GDCpp,GDJS,newIDEandExtensionsfolders) are under the MIT license. - The name, GDevelop, and its logo are the exclusive property of Florian Rival.
Games exported with GDevelop are based on the native and/or HTML5 game engines (see Core, GDCpp and GDJS folders): these engines are distributed under the MIT license so that you can distribute, sell or do anything with the games you created with GDevelop. In particular, you are not forced to make your game open source.