I've decided to learn Godot and it feels like I have "lost"

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  • learn-gdscript

    Learn Godot's GDScript programming language from zero, right in your browser, for free.

  • From what I've read, using C++, VS, C#, etc. over gdscript in Godot is like playing hard mode. gdquest is a great intro: https://gdquest.github.io/learn-gdscript/

  • GLM

    OpenGL Mathematics (GLM)

  • math library because you should never implement a math library yourself, and you probably want somethign more focused on performance than STL. GLM may work if you just need basic vector support. Eigen may help for a more physics heavy game. But I'd probably find something in-between those two

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  • eigen

  • math library because you should never implement a math library yourself, and you probably want somethign more focused on performance than STL. GLM may work if you just need basic vector support. Eigen may help for a more physics heavy game. But I'd probably find something in-between those two

  • bgfx

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

  • BGFX to allow for some cross platform (but still low-ish level) rendering

  • imgui

    Dear ImGui: Bloat-free Graphical User interface for C++ with minimal dependencies

  • IMGUI to handle my UI

  • entt

    Gaming meets modern C++ - a fast and reliable entity component system (ECS) and much more

  • some ECS framework like entt to give some structure to the game state

  • glTF

    glTF – Runtime 3D Asset Delivery

  • Probably not directly, but I'd look for frameworks that work with GLTF to have proper scene and asset management.

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