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Top 23 C Game development Projects
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Project mention: Show HN: A backend agnostic Ruby framework for building reactive desktop apps | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-05-09
Very cool project, and well thought with the choice of Raylib or SDL2. But since Raylib can compile to Android (https://github.com/raysan5/raylib/blob/master/examples/Makef...), do you think it could be difficult to add Android as a target platform ?
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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.
Project mention: Game building fun with a 12 year old and the Amazon Q Developer CLI. | dev.to | 2025-04-14For this we decided on Pygame which is a a free and open-source cross-platform library for the development of multimedia applications like video games using Python. I had previously been shown what Pygame could do and thought it would be a great fit. Its python so pretty easy to pick up and my son had very limited coding experience to begin with and installation was easy.
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Project mention: Flecs – A fast entity component system (ECS) for C and C++ | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-10-19
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I'm working on a little 2D action puzzle game in Go on top of SDL (with bindings via https://github.com/veandco/go-sdl2). The prompt I've given myself is "Chip's Challenge meets Hotline Miami," but who knows how much of either of those elements will remain after I keep evolving the capabilities and general feel of the gameplay. For dev graphics I'm just cobbling together sprites from various pixel-arty asset packs I've purchased on itch.io, but in the future if I want to commercialize it I'll probably want to work with an artist to develop a unified look-and-feel for the game--I may even switch to 3D/2.5D depending on how the tone and my workflow evolve.
I've experimented with Unity, Godot, and GameMaker in the past, but for the time being I'd like to see what I can accomplish on my own in Go to keep my dev chops sharp especially since I've moved into an engineering management role at my job (which has nothing to do with game dev but is increasingly employing more Go source throughout).
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dxwrapper
Fixes compatibility issues with older games running on Windows 10/11 by wrapping DirectX dlls. Also allows loading custom libraries with the file extension .asi into game processes.
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HandmadeMath
A simple math library for games and computer graphics. Compatible with both C and C++. Public domain and easy to modify.
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space-shooter.c
A cross-platform, top-down 2D space shooter written in C using only platform libraries.
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kohi
A game engine made as part of the Kohi Game Engine series on YouTube (and Twitch!), where we make a game engine from the ground up using C and Vulkan.
This "logging system" I adapted to this engine was influenced a whole ton by the kohi engine. If you don't know, the Kohi Engine is quite a robust game engine built in C. The guy who created it also logs his progress on his YouTube channel. Check it out. The series is very fun to watch and very informative.
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pygame-ce
🐍🎮 pygame - Community Edition is a FOSS Python library for multimedia applications (like games). Built on top of the excellent SDL library.
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Project mention: Daslang – The High Performance Programming Language | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-11-13
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Ugh, whenever i see Dungeon Keeper pic i am immediately inclined to go play again. If you havn't seen, there's a wonderful fan expansion fixing basically everything: https://keeperfx.net
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SSVOpenHexagon
C++20 FOSS clone of "Super Hexagon". Depends on SSVStart, SSVEntitySystem, SSVLuaWrapper, SSVMenuSystem, JSONcpp, SFML2.0. Features JSON/LUA customizable game files, a soundtrack by BOSSFIGHT, pseudo-3D effects.
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etlegacy
ET: Legacy is an open source project based on the code of Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory which was released in 2010 under the terms of the GPLv3 license.
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NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
C Game development discussion
C Game development related posts
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Show HN: A backend agnostic Ruby framework for building reactive desktop apps
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Game building fun with a 12 year old and the Amazon Q Developer CLI.
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GNU Make Standard Library
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Bag: A header-only, simplistic, C++20, zipping & unzipping library.
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ioquake3
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Quake 3 Source Code Review: Network Model
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Raylib v5.5
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Game development projects in C? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | raylib | 26,213 |
| 2 | Pygame | 8,008 |
| 3 | MultiplayerNetworkingResources | 7,911 |
| 4 | flecs | 7,028 |
| 5 | ioq3 | 2,534 |
| 6 | netcode.io | 2,489 |
| 7 | go-sdl2 | 2,294 |
| 8 | raylib-go | 2,032 |
| 9 | Allegro | 1,964 |
| 10 | soloud | 1,923 |
| 11 | SGDK | 1,891 |
| 12 | Open-Golf | 1,835 |
| 13 | dxwrapper | 1,470 |
| 14 | HandmadeMath | 1,366 |
| 15 | space-shooter.c | 1,353 |
| 16 | kohi | 1,189 |
| 17 | pygame-ce | 1,173 |
| 18 | daScript | 986 |
| 19 | raylib-rs | 839 |
| 20 | keeperfx | 828 |
| 21 | SSVOpenHexagon | 628 |
| 22 | simple2d | 622 |
| 23 | etlegacy | 621 |
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