Topics / #2d-game

2D game projects on GitHub

Creating two-dimensional games with engines and templates.

As of , the most-starred 2D game projects on GitHub are GDevelop (27.7K stars), cocos2d-x (19.2K stars) and ebiten (13.6K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 5 2D game repositories with 64.5K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 18 was CursedTomorrow, with +976 stars in a day.

5Projects
64.5KStars in total
+1.1KStars in a day
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Hot right now

Most stars gained in a day · Oct 18

+976

CursedTomorrow

AhmadHassan-BTed/CursedTomorrow · ★ 1.2K

Cursed Tomorrow is a 2D horror-survival and escape platformer built from scratch in C++, created as a solo technical showcase of a custom modular game engine and atmospheric storytelling.

+47

GDevelop

4ian/GDevelop · ★ 27.7K

GDevelop is an open-source, no-code game development app for building 2D, 3D and multiplayer games. It is designed to be fast and intuitive for everyone.

+23

sprite-gen

aldegad/sprite-gen · ★ 2.9K

sprite-gen turns one base image into game-ready 2D sprite atlases or transparent motion-loop animations, packaged as a Codex/Claude coding-agent skill plus a standalone Python CLI.

+3

ebiten

hajimehoshi/ebiten · ★ 13.6K

Ebitengine (formerly Ebiten) is an open source 2D game engine for Go: a simple API for building 2D games that deploy across many platforms.

The all-time top

5 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · 4ian/GDevelop

    GDevelop

    GDevelop is an open-source, no-code game development app for building 2D, 3D and multiplayer games. It is designed to be fast and intuitive for everyone.

    27.7K
  2. #2 · cocos2d/cocos2d-x

    cocos2d-x

    An open-source, cross-platform C++ framework for building 2D games, interactive books, demos and other graphical applications — it began as the C++ port of cocos2d-iphone and runs on iOS, Android, macOS, Windows and Linux.

    19.2K
  3. #3 · hajimehoshi/ebiten

    ebiten

    Ebitengine (formerly Ebiten) is an open source 2D game engine for Go: a simple API for building 2D games that deploy across many platforms.

    13.6K
  1. 4

    sprite-gen

    2.9Kaldegad/sprite-gen · Python

    sprite-gen turns one base image into game-ready 2D sprite atlases or transparent motion-loop animations, packaged as a Codex/Claude coding-agent skill plus a standalone Python CLI.

  2. 5

    CursedTomorrow

    1.2KAhmadHassan-BTed/CursedTomorrow · C++

    Cursed Tomorrow is a 2D horror-survival and escape platformer built from scratch in C++, created as a solo technical showcase of a custom modular game engine and atmospheric storytelling.

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