Tools for rolling your own engine

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on /r/gamedev

InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads
InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.
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  1. sol2

    Sol3 (sol2 v3.0) - a C++ <-> Lua API wrapper with advanced features and top notch performance - is here, and it's great! Documentation:

    Here is link number 2 - Previous text "Sol"

  2. InfluxDB

    InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.

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  3. gamedev_libraries

    A collection of open source c/c++ libraries for gamedev

    Tools make it seem like you press buttons and things happen, You will find more if you look for libraries. https://github.com/raizam/gamedev_libraries.

  4. dds-ktx

    Single header "no-allocation" KTX/DDS file reader

    dds_ktx is a pretty tiny lib for reading DDS and KTX files easily

  5. MathGeoLib

    A C++ library for linear algebra and geometry manipulation for computer graphics.

    MathGeoLib for your simd but not psycho math and geometry

  6. sokol

    minimal cross-platform standalone C headers

    Sokol -https://github.com/floooh/sokol Imgui

  7. JsonCpp

    A C++ library for interacting with JSON.

    json cpp for json

  8. bgfx

    Cross-platform, graphics API agnostic, "Bring Your Own Engine/Framework" style rendering library.

    bgfx seems interesting if you aren't going to use SFML. Gets you rendering.

  9. SaaSHub

    SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

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  10. SFML

    Simple and Fast Multimedia Library

    SFML but I don't really recommend it, I don't have a strong alternative though. It's half-baked in a lot of it's implementations and development has all but died on it.

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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