asteroids-demo VS raygui

A game: you could learn how to use a cross-platform library like SDL or you could write your own from scratch. Here's a really simple example of a video game implemented for windows using nothing but native API calls. If you're using linux, it would be a fun exercise to convert that to X11 calls.

I've never used WASAPI, just DirectSound (example), so I can't say much. I managed to get this WASAPI example to work with Mingw-w64 on Windows, though not Wine:

Asteroids (guide to source)

Source: https://github.com/skeeto/asteroids-demo Source guide/walkthrough: https://idle.nprescott.com/2021/understanding-asteroids.html

Example of creating an OpenGL window using Win32 directly: https://github.com/skeeto/asteroids-demo

About the UI interface, I created raygui a simple immediate-mode UI library, you can also take a look: https://github.com/raysan5/raygui

git submodule add https://github.com/raysan5/raygui.git vendor/raygui

Added splicit type casting in commit: https://github.com/raysan5/raygui/commit/78ad65365ebae6433f60cf03a09e76b43c46cfa2

Yes you can use raygui as a standalone library without raylib. Read for more info: https://github.com/raysan5/raygui/blob/master/src/raygui.h.

Possibly with https://github.com/raysan5/raygui.

For your example of raygui, you can just look. It's a single header file (but does require raylib) to work.

I'm under the impression that Unity builds have a good deal of overhead. Plus, in many cases, something like raygui (C# bindings) will actually be quicker to develop with. Nothing wrong with Unity, though. The best tool is the one you know how to use, in my opinion.

raylib extra libraries cleanup: raylib has been on diet and all the extra libraries included on previous releases have been removed from raylib. Now raylib only includes the original 7 raylib modules: rcore, rlgl, rshapes, rtextures, rtext, rmodels and raudio. But no worries, extra libraries have not been deleted, they have been moved to their own repos for better maintainability and more focus on its functionality. The libraries moved out from raylib repo are: raygui, physac, rmem, reasings and raudio (standalone mode). On that same line, a new amazing GitHub group: raylib-extras has been created by @JeffM2501 to contain raylib extra libraries as well as other raylib add-ons provided by the community. Jeff has done an amazing work on that line, providing multiple libraries and examples for raylib, like custom first-person and third person camera systems, Dear ImGui raylib integration, multiple specific examples and even a complete RPG Game Example! Great work Jeff! :D

You might also want to take a look at raygui