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| Oak | go-sdl2 | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | |
| 1,509 | 2,124 | |
| 1.1% | 1.3% | |
| 4.3 | 6.9 | |
| 3 months ago | 7 days ago | |
| Go | C | |
| Apache License 2.0 | BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
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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.
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.
Oak
Posts with mentions or reviews of Oak.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-12.
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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.
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.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Oak and go-sdl2 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.
Pixel - A hand-crafted 2D game library in Go
Leaf - A game server framework in Go (golang)
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.
resolv - A Simple 2D Golang collision detection and resolution library for games
d3d9 - Direct3D9 wrapper for Go.
Azul3D - Azul3D - A 3D game engine written in Go!
go-collada - Go package for working with the Collada file format.