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Top 23 C Game development Projects
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Pygame
🐍🎮 pygame (the library) is a Free and Open Source python programming language library for making multimedia applications like games built on top of the excellent SDL library. C, Python, Native, OpenGL.
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space-shooter.c
A cross-platform, top-down 2D space shooter written in C using only platform libraries.
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HandmadeMath
A simple math library for games and computer graphics. Compatible with both C and C++. Public domain and easy to modify.
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dxwrapper
Fixes compatibility issues with older games running on Windows 10/11 by wrapping DirectX dlls. Also allows loading custom libraries with the file extension .asi into game processes.
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pygame-ce
🐍🎮 pygame - Community Edition is a FOSS Python library for multimedia applications (like games). Built on top of the excellent SDL library.
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SSVOpenHexagon
C++20 FOSS clone of "Super Hexagon". Depends on SSVStart, SSVEntitySystem, SSVLuaWrapper, SSVMenuSystem, JSONcpp, SFML2.0. Features JSON/LUA customizable game files, a soundtrack by BOSSFIGHT, pseudo-3D effects.
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Fetch Packages... raylib... ./ray_test_zig/build.zig.zon:7:20: error: url field is missing corresponding hash field .url = "https://github.com/raysan5/raylib/archive/refs/tags/5.0.tar.gz", ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ note: expected .hash = "1220c28847ca8e8756734ae84355802b764c9d9cf4de057dbc6fc2b15c56e726f27b",
Project mention: A Curated List of Game Network Programming Resources | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-05-22
I've also been enjoying building My First Game™ in Bevy using ECS. The community around Bevy really shines, but Flecs (https://github.com/SanderMertens/flecs) is arguably a more mature, open-source ECS implementation. You don't get to write in Rust, though, which makes it less cool in my book :)
I'm not very proud of the code I've written because I've found writing a game to be much more confusing than building websites + backends, but, as the author notes, it certainly feels more elegant than OOP or globals given the context.
I'm building for WASM and Bevy's parallelism isn't supported in that context (yet? https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/issues/4078), so the performance wins are just so-so. Sharing a thread with UI rendering suuucks.
If anyone wants to browse some code or ask questions, feel free! https://github.com/MeoMix/symbiants
Allegro (zlib/plain C) https://github.com/liballeg/allegro5
I'm working on a game for Amiga (another 68k-based platform) and settled on ZX0 to decompress assets on the fly: https://github.com/einar-saukas/ZX0
I was originally using LZ4, but I switched to ZX0 after learning that it can do in-place decompression, which means I don't have to allocate separate memory for the compressed data. I'm very happy with the compression ratio, and decompression of large assets (~48kb) only takes a few frames on a 7MHz 68000.
Also of note is LZ4W, included in Sega Genesis Dev Kit (and discussed in the comments section of OP's article), a variant of LZ4 that only uses word-aligned operations. That makes it much faster on the 68000, which can struggle to efficiently handle 8-bit data. More info here: https://github.com/Stephane-D/SGDK/blob/master/bin/lz4w.txt
Project mention: Raylib is a simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy videogames programming | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-07-04Raylib is awesome! It reminds me of the old school days of using BlitzBASIC to get things drawn on screen because it's easy and so much fun. This is how programming used to be, no fuss, just easy to use libraries.
I currently use Raylib with Go and the Go bindings[1] to create screensavers for Linux and I'm really happy with the results.
I even use it at work to draw interactive infrastructure diagrams that animate dependencies, allow controlling start-up etc. It's really flexible and simpler than anything else I've found to get stuff on-screen. I love it!
[1]: https://github.com/gen2brain/raylib-go
Project mention: Beginner, intermediate, and advanced c programming projects | /r/C_Programming | 2023-12-09You can do something like this, but way less polished and stick to one platform: https://github.com/tsherif/space-shooter.c/tree/master
If you don't like using heavy libraries such as glm, I recommend looking at HandmadeMath. It is a single file c/c++ math library for graphics programming. You can just drop it into your project. It's lightweight and will save you a lot of time implementing the math yourself. In a lot of cases, it actually uses optimized solutions to save computation time (same with the glm).
Project mention: SimCity Classic - Guide to Installation (Windows / DOSBox) | /r/SimCity | 2023-07-08Then, download this and place the files inside the game directory (C:\Program Files\Maxis\SimCity Classic).
Project mention: DaScript: Fast and Versatile Scripting Language | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-10-27
Keeper FX - Dungeon Keeper clone. C
See our release notes for full information about what's new: https://github.com/pygame-community/pygame-ce/releases
Project mention: Should there be an open-source FTL clone? Can one even exist? | /r/ftlgame | 2023-08-29Open Hexagon, re-implementation of Super Hexagon
NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
C Game development related posts
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Zig! Can you C?
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Ask HN: Do you know any open source (2D or 3D) asset libraries?
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Raylib – A simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy videogames programming
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Can't make my mind about which engine to use
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Raylib Library For Video Games Programming as Senior Developer
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XCurl
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Advice for managing a group of beginner C programmers, myself included
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Game development projects in C? This list will help you:
| Project | Stars | |
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| 1 | raylib | 19,394 |
| 2 | Pygame | 7,006 |
| 3 | GameNetworkingResources | 6,852 |
| 4 | flecs | 5,589 |
| 5 | netcode.io | 2,383 |
| 6 | ioq3 | 2,311 |
| 7 | go-sdl2 | 2,145 |
| 8 | zig-gamedev | 2,007 |
| 9 | Allegro | 1,775 |
| 10 | Open-Golf | 1,758 |
| 11 | soloud | 1,660 |
| 12 | SGDK | 1,658 |
| 13 | raylib-go | 1,335 |
| 14 | space-shooter.c | 1,317 |
| 15 | HandmadeMath | 1,151 |
| 16 | dxwrapper | 1,119 |
| 17 | daScript | 800 |
| 18 | keeperfx | 694 |
| 19 | pygame-ce | 687 |
| 20 | SSVOpenHexagon | 605 |
| 21 | Azul3D | 598 |
| 22 | reliable | 574 |
| 23 | thirdroom | 575 |
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