Games from scratch

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  • raylib

    A simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy videogames programming

  • Raylib is a great library for graphics. You can also use extra libraries such as Raymath and Raudio to fit the needs of your game.

  • OpenTK

    The Open Toolkit library is a fast, low-level C# wrapper for OpenGL, OpenAL & OpenCL. It also includes windowing, mouse, keyboard and joystick input and a robust and fast math library, giving you everything you need to write your own renderer or game engine. OpenTK can be used standalone or inside a GUI on Windows, Linux, Mac.

  • i'd go for OpenTK so you don't have to learn c++ in addition. also one of the most important things is understanding how to communicate with the GPU and for that https://learnopengl.com/ is a great resource. (also creating a 3d engine is not really that much harder than a 2d engine in my opinion)

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  • LearnOpenGL

    Code repository of all OpenGL chapters from the book and its accompanying website https://learnopengl.com

  • i'd go for OpenTK so you don't have to learn c++ in addition. also one of the most important things is understanding how to communicate with the GPU and for that https://learnopengl.com/ is a great resource. (also creating a 3d engine is not really that much harder than a 2d engine in my opinion)

  • love

    LÖVE is an awesome 2D game framework for Lua.

  • I can recommend Löve as a great framework! http://love2d.org/

  • raudio

    A simple and easy-to-use audio library based on miniaudio (by raysan5)

  • Raylib is a great library for graphics. You can also use extra libraries such as Raymath and Raudio to fit the needs of your game.

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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