Cinder
Cinder is a community-developed, free and open source library for professional-quality creative coding in C++. (by cinder)
raylib
A simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy videogames programming (by raysan5)
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| Cinder | raylib | |
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| 26 | 399 | |
| 5,240 | 18,907 | |
| - | - | |
| 5.9 | 9.8 | |
| about 1 month ago | about 18 hours ago | |
| C++ | C | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | zlib License |
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Cinder
Posts with mentions or reviews of Cinder.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-15.
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UI framework with C++ simulation.
Have you come across openFrameworks (https://openframeworks.cc/) or Cinder (https://libcinder.org/)?
- Learning C++ for Multimedia and Audio programming
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100 commits on CProcessing
CProcessing reminds me of Cinder
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SDL, SFML, other libraries for game development in C++...?
I only used SFML, currently making a 2D isometric game. I really like it so far overall, easy to use IMO, pretty well documented. Does what I need it to do. Heard good things about SDL2 and also Cinder++ (https://libcinder.org/) also.
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GUI Tips C++
What kind of game? You might be better off using a game engine unless it's more of a simple starter project. Check out https://libcinder.org/ or see lots of engines here: https://github.com/collections/game-engines
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Frameworks C++
Cinder
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Something like p5.js but for C++
Try Cinder (https://libcinder.org/). I have not tried it myself but it seems to have the same goals as P5 and Processing (ie. creative coding).
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How the Cinder JIT’s inliner works
Kind of a shorty thing for Meta to do when Cinder is already taken by https://libcinder.org
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What is the most engaging coding language to start with...
or its C++ cousins openFrameworks and Cinder
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I'm having a hard time staying committed to learning C++ and OpenGL for game development.
Mid Level [Three.js (WebGL)(https://libcinder.org/) Mesh, Geometry, Material, Lighting] [Graphics Library]
raylib
Posts with mentions or reviews of raylib.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-10.
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Zig! Can you C?
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",
- Ask HN: Do you know any open source (2D or 3D) asset libraries?
- 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
libGDX is great, but I can understand if it's not for some people. This also applies to love2d, raylib and Monogame
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Raylib Library For Video Games Programming as Senior Developer
Raylib library
- Advice for managing a group of beginner C programmers, myself included
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What are some good projects in C for an experienced dev?
Here is a cool C project you could learn from: https://github.com/raysan5/raylib Its an open source game lib.
- Raylib v5.0
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raylib 5.0 is coming November 18, 2023?
Did I miss something or is raylib 5 really coming next saturday? https://github.com/raysan5/raylib/commit/737cd0be7fb009bf837a00847128b00051c5f096
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Not only Unity...
RayLib (ZLIBL/C/Lua) https://github.com/raysan5/raylib
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Cinder and raylib you can also consider the following projects:
OpenFrameworks - openFrameworks is a community-developed cross platform toolkit for creative coding in C++.
SFML - Simple and Fast Multimedia Library
Qt - Qt Base (Core, Gui, Widgets, Network, ...)
SDL2 - SDL2 bindings to perl
JUCE - JUCE is an open-source cross-platform C++ application framework for desktop and mobile applications, including VST, VST3, AU, AUv3, LV2 and AAX audio plug-ins.
bevy - A refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust
magnum - Lightweight and modular C++11 graphics middleware for games and data visualization
imgui - Dear ImGui: Bloat-free Graphical User interface for C++ with minimal dependencies
Pyston - A faster and highly-compatible implementation of the Python programming language.
bgfx - Cross-platform, graphics API agnostic, "Bring Your Own Engine/Framework" style rendering library.
Folly - An open-source C++ library developed and used at Facebook.
SDL - Simple Directmedia Layer