Game Engine

A game engine is a software development environment designed to create games. It distinguish from game libraries in that:

• Implements the game loop, resource managers and other complex subsystems as networking communications, user interfaces and configuration systems.
• Implements complex data structures, such as maps, particle systems and actors.
• Implements tools as editors and data managers.

All these subsystems would affect in gameplay aspects as movement, scoring or even genre. You can read this Wikipedia page for more information.

Game Engines

Here's a list of game engines that are Pascal/Delphi based or have Pascal binding libraries.

Name	Site	Usage	Notes
Castle Game Engine	castle-engine.io	FPC/Delphi	2D & 3D, all platforms supported
Quad-Engine	GitHub	Delphi/FPC/C#/C++	v0.9.0 (Diamond) 2018-01-15 (available under Releases/Tags on Github). Engine is written in Delphi, compiled as Win32 dll-file, other languages are supported via header files.
TERRA Game Engine	GitHub	Delphi/FPC/Oxygene	2D & 3D, all platforms supported
Tilengine	GitHub	FPC/Delphi OOP Pascal Wrapper and bindings	Cross-platform 2D graphics engine for creating classic/retro games with tilemaps, sprites and palettes. Last update May 2020.
nxPascal	GitHub	FPC/Delphi	For now only OpenGL is supported. No android or other mobile support yet.
g2mp	GitHub	FPC	Ideologically replaced Dan Jet X, multiplatform, editor- and code-based development
Andorra 2D	SourceForge	Delphi	Last update 2008
CAST II Game Engine	[www.casteng.com](http://www.casteng.com/)	Delphi	Alive? last update 2011
Delphi X	[www.micrel.cz/Dx](http://www.micrel.cz/Dx/)	Delphi
Afterwarp	[www.afterwarp.net](http://www.afterwarp.net/)	FPC/Delphi
Brtech1	PascalGameDevelopment.com	FPC	Not really available as an engine or library. Many videos can be found on youtube though.
GameMaker: Studio	[www.yoyogames.com](http://www.yoyogames.com/)	N/A	Yes, it's not really a game engine library. But it's a game engine and studio written originally in Delphi. Special Pascal proud.
MinGRo	SourceForge	FPC	Designed for old-school style games. Still work in progress. Build with Allegro.pas.
ZGameEditor	[www.zgameeditor.org](http://www.zgameeditor.org/)	FPC/Delphi	use OpenGL for graphics and a real time synthesizer for audio
SO Engine	GitHub	Delphi/FMX	Small Crossplatform (Win, Android, iOs) indy engine with formatters, animations, intersections and etc.
DGLE	GitHub	Delphi/FPC/C#/C++	Powerful free open source cross-platform game engine.
raylib	GitHub	FPC	A simple and easy-to-use raylib library
PGF	GitHub	FPC/Lazarus	The Phoenix Game Framework is a set of classes for helping in the creation of 2D and 3D games in pascal.
ZenGL	source code ZenGL before version 3.12ZenGL 4.2 and higher	FPC/Lazarus/Delphi	Cross-platform game development library written in Pascal.
Apus Game Engine	GitHub	FPC/Delphi	2D (with some 3D effects) engine
Ray4Laz	GitHub	FPC/Lazarus	is a simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy videogames programming

Physics Engines

These engines simulate the physical world (collisions, trajectories etc). Not really game engines per se, but could certainly be used in games.

Name	Site	Usage	Notes
TundAx	GitHub	FPC/Delphi
Newton	[www.saschawillems.de](http://www.saschawillems.de/)	Bindings
Box2D-Delphi	SourceForge	FPC/Delphi	This is Delphi implementation of Box2D library.
Kraft	GitHub	FPC/Delphi	Pascal native physics engine by Benjamin Rosseaux.

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