Oak
A pure Go game engine (by oakmound)
raylib-go
Go bindings for raylib, a simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy videogames programming. (by gen2brain)
| Oak | raylib-go | |
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| 1 | 21 | |
| 1,513 | 1,324 | |
| 0.9% | - | |
| 4.3 | 9.1 | |
| 4 months ago | 1 day ago | |
| Go | C | |
| Apache License 2.0 | zlib License |
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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.
raylib-go
Posts with mentions or reviews of raylib-go.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-04.
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Raylib is a simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy videogames programming
Raylib is awesome! It reminds me of the old school days of using BlitzBASIC to get things drawn on screen because it's easy and so much fun. This is how programming used to be, no fuss, just easy to use libraries.
I currently use Raylib with Go and the Go bindings[1] to create screensavers for Linux and I'm really happy with the results.
I even use it at work to draw interactive infrastructure diagrams that animate dependencies, allow controlling start-up etc. It's really flexible and simpler than anything else I've found to get stuff on-screen. I love it!
[1]: https://github.com/gen2brain/raylib-go
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Cool projects to learn and contribute?
If games/graphics interests you then this is a cool project and help is needed porting examples to Go. Raylib Go - basically it is a game development framework for Go. There are a whole lot of examples that haven't been added to the Github page here https://github.com/gen2brain/raylib-go/tree/master/examples
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Building Snake Game In Golang: Complete Guide
Well, I haven't used Ebiten much so can't compare however Raylib is super easy to use for both 2D and 3D (as far as I know Ebiten is mainly 2D) and there is a large community as there are Raylib bindings for a lot of languages. The Go bindings are here https://github.com/gen2brain/raylib-go and the Raylib website is here https://www.raylib.com/
- raylib-go - the golang binding of raylib released v.4.5 today
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What would be the closest thing to Unity/Unreal C#/C++ for Go to create games/animations/visual work?
However if you can code with Go already then something like Raylib https://github.com/gen2brain/raylib-go
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3d with Ebitengine?
You can do 3D with Go and Raylib quite easily, without a lot of math, not sure you can build a 3D rendering engine with it though https://github.com/gen2brain/raylib-go
- Can Go be used for game development?
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Where to find more information on using languages beside c++?
Unfortunately the biggest problem with Raylib for other languages like Go is just what you are talking about, there is minimal documentation. What I did to learn is to go through the examples on Github here https://github.com/gen2brain/raylib-go/tree/master/examples
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Golang Image Manipulation.
Not sure exactly what you want to do however Raylib offers some image manipulation and is easy to use https://github.com/gen2brain/raylib-go
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Oak and raylib-go you can also consider the following projects:
Ebiten - Ebitengine - A dead simple 2D game engine for Go
Pixel - A hand-crafted 2D game library in Go
go-sdl2 - SDL2 binding for Go
Leaf - A game server framework in Go (golang)
resolv - A Simple 2D Golang collision detection and resolution library for games
g3n - Go 3D Game Engine (http://g3n.rocks)
Azul3D - Azul3D - A 3D game engine written in Go!
goworld - Scalable Distributed Game Server Engine with Hot Swapping in Golang
glop - Bare-bones osx alternative to sdl