Free game libraries

From FreeGameDevWiki

Free Software (Open Source) libraries to use in your free games.

Contents 1 Audio 2 Physics 3 Network 4 Procedural content creation 5 Various

Audio

• Audiere - LGPL high-level audio API

Physics

• Bullet - ZLIB 3D Collision Detection and Rigid Body Dynamics Library
• Flatland - BSD 2D physics engine
• ODE - BSD 3D rigid body dynamics engine
• Tokamak - BSD 3D real-time physics engine

Network

• ENet - ZLIB thin network layer on top of UDP
• Grapple - LGPL network layer, simple but fully featured
• HawkNL - LGPL low level network engine
• OpenTNL - GPLed Network engine from the Torque engine
• RaptorNL - Successor to the HawkNL networking library

Procedural content creation

• FxGen - Procedural texture generation tool & library
• ngPlant - Procedural plant generation tool & library
• OpenTree - Procedural plant generation library
• Munty engine - GPL neural networks procedural animation library
• Ivy Generator - GPL procedural ivy generation

Various

• Cal3D is a skeletal based 3D character animation library (LGPL)
• COLLADA - 3D Model exchange format
• HawkVoice - LGPL multiplayer voice over network API
• FEAR - GPL artificial intelligence for games
• OpenSteer - MIT Steering Behaviors for Autonomous Characters
• LWJGL - Lightweight Java Game Library