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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.
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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Installing Pixel library (https://github.com/faiface/pixel) without go get
All tutorials I could find are either outdated or skip over installation, and the https://github.com/faiface/pixel/wiki/Building-Pixel-on-Windows github page is not detailed at all.
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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?
d3d9
Posts with mentions or reviews of d3d9.
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How can I take a screenshot quickly enough to take 60 in one second?
Using Go screenshot libraries which use win32 are much too slow, and don't take screenshots quickly enough. While looking into this problem, I found that even in C, win32 screenshots don't get near to the speeds needed for 60fps. I was told at some point to try using DirectX to take a screenshot, and so I found some Go bindings: https://github.com/gonutz/d3d9, and I'm realizing that I do not know how to use DirectX at all. Does anyone know how I can get started with DirectX? How I might be able to just take a simple and efficient screenshot with it?
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Pixel and d3d9 you can also consider the following projects:
Ebiten - Ebitengine - A dead simple 2D game engine for Go
glop - Bare-bones osx alternative to sdl
raylib-go - Go bindings for raylib, a simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy videogames programming.
go-sdl2 - SDL2 binding for Go
engo - Engo is an open-source 2D game engine written in Go.
termloop - Terminal-based game engine for Go, built on top of Termbox
go-collada - Go package for working with the Collada file format.
Leaf - A game server framework in Go (golang)
Oak - A pure Go game engine
GarageEngine - Game engine written in Go (golang).