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Top 23 C Gamedev Projects
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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.
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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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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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IconFontCppHeaders
C and C++ headers, C# and Python classes, Rust files and Go package for icon fonts Font Awesome, Fork Awesome, Google Material Design, Pictogrammers Material Design icons, Kenney game icons, Fontaudio, Codicons and Lucide.
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foolrenderer
A tiny software renderer implemented from scratch without the use of graphics API, used to understand how GPUs work.
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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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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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cgl
CGL (C Game Library) is a multipurpose library mainly for recreational coding / demo scenes / prototyping / small games / experimentation.
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Fetch Packages... raylib... ./ray_test_zig/build.zig.zon:7:20: error: url field is missing corresponding hash field .url = "https://github.com/raysan5/raylib/archive/refs/tags/5.0.tar.gz", ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ note: expected .hash = "1220c28847ca8e8756734ae84355802b764c9d9cf4de057dbc6fc2b15c56e726f27b",
Project mention: A Curated List of Game Network Programming Resources | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-05-22
I've also been enjoying building My First Game™ in Bevy using ECS. The community around Bevy really shines, but Flecs (https://github.com/SanderMertens/flecs) is arguably a more mature, open-source ECS implementation. You don't get to write in Rust, though, which makes it less cool in my book :)
I'm not very proud of the code I've written because I've found writing a game to be much more confusing than building websites + backends, but, as the author notes, it certainly feels more elegant than OOP or globals given the context.
I'm building for WASM and Bevy's parallelism isn't supported in that context (yet? https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/issues/4078), so the performance wins are just so-so. Sharing a thread with UI rendering suuucks.
If anyone wants to browse some code or ask questions, feel free! https://github.com/MeoMix/symbiants
And this is how https://github.com/go-gst/go-gst, https://github.com/go-gl/glfw, and even https://fyne.io/ are using system libraries to propose a lot of functionalities.
Project mention: Beginner, intermediate, and advanced c programming projects | /r/C_Programming | 2023-12-09You can do something like this, but way less polished and stick to one platform: https://github.com/tsherif/space-shooter.c/tree/master
Project mention: SimCity Classic - Guide to Installation (Windows / DOSBox) | /r/SimCity | 2023-07-08Then, download this and place the files inside the game directory (C:\Program Files\Maxis\SimCity Classic).
See our release notes for full information about what's new: https://github.com/pygame-community/pygame-ce/releases
Project mention: GitHub - dethrace-labs/dethrace: Reverse engineering the 1997 game "Carmageddon" | /r/Games | 2023-05-08
Project mention: Should there be an open-source FTL clone? Can one even exist? | /r/ftlgame | 2023-08-29Open Hexagon, re-implementation of Super Hexagon
Project mention: cgl-rs: Rust OpenGL base library + creative coding + gamedev utilities | /r/opengl | 2023-08-05
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).
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Gamedev projects in C? This list will help you:
| Project | Stars | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | raylib | 19,126 |
| 2 | Pygame | 6,994 |
| 3 | GameNetworkingResources | 6,812 |
| 4 | flecs | 5,530 |
| 5 | TIC-80 | 4,777 |
| 6 | zig-gamedev | 1,980 |
| 7 | Open-Golf | 1,755 |
| 8 | lovr | 1,654 |
| 9 | glfw | 1,514 |
| 10 | space-shooter.c | 1,317 |
| 11 | librg | 1,223 |
| 12 | dxwrapper | 1,111 |
| 13 | IconFontCppHeaders | 1,106 |
| 14 | foolrenderer | 941 |
| 15 | ENet-CSharp | 762 |
| 16 | pygame-ce | 678 |
| 17 | bake | 648 |
| 18 | dethrace | 627 |
| 19 | SSVOpenHexagon | 605 |
| 20 | exengine | 531 |
| 21 | raylib-games | 477 |
| 22 | dome | 466 |
| 23 | cgl | 387 |
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