ZGameEditor

What ZGameEditor is

ZGameEditor is a free development tool for creating small arcade-style games, demos, and screensavers. Its integrated environment supports building, previewing, and testing projects with 2D and 3D graphics, gameplay components, GLSL vertex and fragment shaders, multiple render passes, and render-to-texture. Creators can import bitmap textures, MIDI music, 3DS models, and RAW sampled audio, while the engine includes a real-time audio synthesizer. Each project is stored in one XML-based file that can be edited manually. Simple applications can be made without programming; advanced projects can use a C-style scripting language. Projects may call external libraries such as DLLs for modules including music players or physics engines. Depending on imported content, standalone applications can be 64 KB or less. Created applications may be distributed royalty-free, and the complete source code is available under the MIT License. ZGameEditor supports Android, Linux, macOS, and Windows. Documentation, tutorials, sample projects, and a community forum are linked from its website.