Gideros Mobile
Develop, Test and Deploy for Free
Gideros is a free and open source game development technology built on Lua, C/C++ and OpenGL, designed for creating games that run across multiple platforms. It addresses the need for a lightweight development environment with rapid iteration, allowing developers to test games on real devices over Wi-Fi without going through a full export or deploy process.
The toolset includes a lightweight IDE, desktop and device players, a Texture packer, and a Font Creator, alongside third-party tools. Gideros provides its own class system for object-oriented programming, automatic screen scaling and image resolution selection, and a plugin system that lets developers extend the core using C, C++, Java or Objective-C code bound to Lua. Open-source plugins are available for use, and the platform exports to multiple targets including Android.
Gideros is suited to game developers who want a cross-platform workflow with native performance and extensibility through custom plugins. It is distributed as free and open source software with no stated limitations on developing and publishing apps.
12 alternatives to Gideros Mobile
Ranked by how well each tool replaces Gideros Mobile: shared features, audience, price and popularity.
- 57 out of 100 match$25/mo
- 55 out of 100 matchContact sales
A free, open source, cross-platform IDE for C, C++, Rust, PHP and Node.js
Covers 1 of 15 key features.
Free planOpen source54 out of 100 matchFree- 53 out of 100 matchFree
Integrated cross-platform development tool for Common Lisp
Covers 1 of 15 key features.
Free plan53 out of 100 matchContact salesThe modern, innovative, open-source programming language for building all your apps.
Covers 2 of 15 key features.
Free planOpen source52 out of 100 matchFreeRun and share code in dozens of languages — open source.
Covers 2 of 15 key features.
Free planOpen source52 out of 100 matchContact sales- 52 out of 100 match—
- 51 out of 100 match—