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3 | 15 | |
2,119 | 4,389 | |
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6.9 | 3.9 | |
3 days ago | 5 months ago | |
C | Go | |
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
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.
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
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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.
Pixel
Posts with mentions or reviews of Pixel.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-21.
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Create ui button for game (faiface/pixel)
Hi! I'm making a game using faiface/pixel. It's a very cool lib, but I can't find any examples for creating a menu button (as in the screenshot). I have read all the documentation and haven't found an answer to the questions below:
- Library for game dev
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What 2D Go Game Framework Do You Use, and What are Its Pros and Cons?
From what I've seen, Ebitengine seems to be the most popular choice among hobby and professional game devs, but there are other frameworks as well like oakmound/oak and faiface/pixel that continue to be maintained on Github to this day.
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Game engine for programmars
faiface/pixel: A hand-crafted 2D game library in Go
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Could Golang ever be used in the meat-and-potatoes of video game development?
I don't see why it can't be used in video game development in fact, there are already a few games made in go like Bear's Restaurant though most of them seem to be 2D games That is also a few game engines/frameworks/library made in go like G3N, Ebiten, pixel and go-gl I have seen a few Youtube Videos where people make games in go like Gaming in Go Making an MMO I think what is Missing is gaming engines with a GUI like unity, unreal and Godot but nothing stopping someone from making one other than the massive time/money investment it takes
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Wrote a Chip8 emulator to teach myself Go, it is one of the most comfortable languages I have ever used.
For learning Go, A Tour of Go, and tutorials from libraries I used (Pixel and Beep), as well as a lot of Googleing.
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Any "simple" projects with particularly well-written and/or well-documented code for a beginner to look through?
Btw, for game engines/libraries in Go, feel free to check out Ebiten, or my Pixel.
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Can I get a quick code review of my simple start to a Go based RogueLike?
I have played around with the Python TCOD tutorial before this, but the library I'm using (Pixel) is very different. I think it's more similar to PyGame.
- Lightweight Websocket library a simple game server?
- how to create a native toolkit for golang?
What are some alternatives?
When comparing go-sdl2 and Pixel you can also consider the following projects:
Ebiten - Ebitengine - A dead simple 2D game engine for Go
raylib-go - Go bindings for raylib, a simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy videogames programming.
engo - Engo is an open-source 2D game engine written in Go.
Leaf - A game server framework in Go (golang)
Oak - A pure Go game engine
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.
g3n - Go 3D Game Engine (http://g3n.rocks)
d3d9 - Direct3D9 wrapper for Go.
go-collada - Go package for working with the Collada file format.