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go-sdl2
- C Port of Ken Thompson's Space Travel
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"Dr. Kobushi’s Labyrinthine Laboratory" powered by Ebitengine has been released on Steam
An even simpler option (not a full engine) is using SDL2 bindings.
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3D graphics library
Fair enough! There are Go bindings for sdl here, and bindings for RayLib here. Beyond that, everything go game-related that I know of is a game engine.
go-bgfx
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3D graphics library
I'm looking for something that's relatively low-level (not a game engine) but preferably abstracts some of the boilerplate away and is cross-platform. Something like go-bgfx would have been perfect for me, but it has been long abandoned. The only real remaining option appears to be the glfw-bindings go-gl/glfw. Otherwise, I could make use of cgo to wrap some c/c++ code myself. I'm somewhat hesitant to go with glfw, because openGL isn't supported on all platforms (but realistically, I'm not going to publish anything that needs to go on mobile), and doesn't support raytracing, which I eventually want to mess around with too.
What are some alternatives?
raylib-go - Go bindings for raylib, a simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy videogames programming.
go-webgpu - Go bindings for WebGPU, a safe & cross-platform GPU abstraction
Ebiten - Ebitengine - A dead simple 2D game engine for Go
glfw - Go bindings for GLFW 3
Pixel - A hand-crafted 2D game library in Go
fauxgl - Software-only 3D renderer written in Go.
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.
go-webgpu-examples
d3d9 - Direct3D9 wrapper for Go.
go-collada - Go package for working with the Collada file format.
vulkan - Vulkan API bindings for Go programming language