go-sdl2 vs go3d

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go-sdl2		go3d
	Project
3	Mentions	-
2,126	Stars	288
1.4%	Growth	-
6.9	Activity	0.0
7 days ago	Latest Commit	about 2 years ago
C	Language	Go
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License	License	MIT License

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go-sdl2

Posts with mentions or reviews of go-sdl2. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-05.

C Port of Ken Thompson's Space Travel
5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Feb 2023
"Dr. Kobushi’s Labyrinthine Laboratory" powered by Ebitengine has been released on Steam
2 projects | /r/golang | 15 Sep 2022

An even simpler option (not a full engine) is using SDL2 bindings.
3D graphics library
10 projects | /r/golang | 28 Aug 2022

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.

go3d

Posts with mentions or reviews of go3d. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning go3d yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing go-sdl2 and go3d you can also consider the following projects:

raylib-go - Go bindings for raylib, a simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy videogames programming.

gonet - A Game Server Skeleton in golang.

Ebiten - Ebitengine - A dead simple 2D game engine for Go

engo - Engo is an open-source 2D game engine written in Go.

Pixel - A hand-crafted 2D game library in Go

g3n - Go 3D Game Engine (http://g3n.rocks)

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.

canvas2d

d3d9 - Direct3D9 wrapper for Go.

fantasyname - RinkWorks fantasy name generator for golang

go-collada - Go package for working with the Collada file format.