Open Web Games, GameOn and Construct 2
(edit: Construct 2 is going Closed Source, I'll either edit out this part or keep it for reference, but don't get your hopes up when reading this) Scirra Construct is one of the few FOSS competitors to the proprietary GameMaker 2D game development suite ( Gluon , Enigma and Game-Editor being the others). Unfortunately, the system has been limited to Windows since its inception due to relying on DirectX fiddlies, however, that has all changed... Construct 0.x Showreel Yesterday the long awaited Construct 2 project released a public alpha . No longer are Construct games chained to Windows; instead, games can be exported to HTML (5) which is pretty much on the opposite spectrum of platform-lockin. Construct 0.x Interface Now, one significant problem is that the editor isn't cross platform, and relies on a Windows GUI lib. However, seeing as the games are now cross platform, maybe the FOSS gaming community can show their appreciation by helping with the porting proc...