Game makers
Software theme
Any software that exists to make making games as simple, easy and efficient as possible.
Alternate name: Game development environments
Parent group
This is a container group; its children are:
| Epiboly Software's Adventure Maker | A system by Patricia B. Smith to makes simple GUI interactive fiction games for classic Macintoshes. | 1 game | |
| BYOND | Made with Byond, a free 2D multiplayer game maker. (too short) | 1 game | |
| Clickteam Fusion | Successor to Clickteam's earlier Multimedia Fusion. (too short) | 1992 / 2008 | 0 game |
| Construct 2 | A WYSIWYG closed source game maker by Scirra for creating HTML5 games. (too short) | 2013 / 2021 | 34 games |
| Fighter Maker | Created with Enterbrain's 2D Fighter Maker. (too short) | 2001 / 2014 | 4 games |
| FPS Creator | FPS Creator & later versions are developed by The Game Creators Ltd. They allow making FPSes with little or no coding/programming experience required | 1 game | |
| GameMaker | Made with and powered by any version of GameMaker from YoYo Games. (too short) | 1998 / 2022 | 142 games |
| The Games Factory | Created with TGF, a graphical game authoring tool by Clickteam. (too short) | 1 game | |
| Garry Kitchen's Gamemaker | Games made with Garry Kitchen's Gamemaker IDE. (too short) | 1985 / 1986 | 2 games |
| MegaZuex | A game maker originally released as shareware and now GPL. (too short) | 1998 / 2011 | 5 games |
| Multimedia Fusion | Created with MMF, a software authoring tool by Clickteam mostly targeting game development. (too short) | 2002 / 2013 | 18 games |
| Pepys Adventure Gamer | Games made with and playable using Pepys Adventure Gamer for graphical adventure games. (too short) | 1 game | |
| RPG Maker | Made with any version of RPG Maker. These either install RPG Maker run-time along them or require it to be pre-installed. | 1997 / 2023 | 44 games |
| World Builder game creation system | 1st used to create games in 1984, Silicon Beach Software published their system 1986. ©William C. Appleton, reportedly released as Freeware in 1995 | 1984 / 1994 | 48 games |
| SEUK | (too short) | 1987 / 1996 | 4 games |
| StoryNexus | (too short) | 2 games | |
| Unreal Development Kit | Developed using the free (binary-only) version of Unreal Engine 3. These also install UDK redistributable or require it to be installed beforehand. | 2009 / 2016 | 37 games |
| Visionaire | Adventure game maker and associated game engine. (too short) | 2008 / 2017 | 24 games |
| Zelda Classic / ZQuest Engine | Began as pixel perfect recreation of original Legend of Zelda for DOS. But advanced to cross-platform (DWOL) & for other 2D Zelda-likes or platformers | 1999 / 2015 | 54 games |