fubark/awesome-zig-gamedev

List of zig game development related projects

List of Zig Gamedev Projects

Open Source Zig Games

https://github.com/holobeat/zig-wasm-snake

• The game of snake implemented in zig and running on webassembly.

https://github.com/fabioarnold/zig-gorillas

• 2-player local multiplayer game. Take turns throwing an exploding banana at each other.

https://github.com/thejoshwolfe/legend-of-swarkland

• Nethack inspired 2D Simple turn-based action fantasy puzzle sandbox.
• rougelike

Zig Game Frameworks

https://github.com/JonSnowbd/slingworks Discord Tag of creator: Aetherwind#8836

• missing a few things like gamepad support, but now has a wiki for basic tutorials, and an example game(in development) that shows how to use the various features
• Slingworks is a 2d Game Engine where you provide the types, and slingworks does all the leg work for generating an editor, and all the windowing/graphics for you, and organized into Entity based scenes that has serialization saving/loading managed for you.
• Note: currently recommened to use the dev branch instead of master

https://github.com/prime31/zig-gamekit

• bundled along with zig renderkit, seems to be focused on 2d graphics only
• uses SDL2 as its only (!) dependency.

https://github.com/prime31/zig-renderkit

• core library of zig-gamekit

Stephen Gutekanst (@slimsag#2321 on Discord) has been building an engine twitter: https://twitter.com/slimsag github: https://github.com/hexops/mach

• Mach engine is still very early stages though it's improving rapidly.
• Is planning to be a similar project like Bevy is for the Rust gamedev ecosystem

There's also https://github.com/MasterQ32/zero-graphics (from @xq#5894 on Discord)

• zero-graphics is best at cross-platform 2D / light 3D stuff.

https://github.com/michal-z/zig-gamedev Discord Tag of creator: michalziulek#4304

• 3D zig framework. Can already do some very impressive stuff, including ray tracing
• The farthest along project in the ecosystem

https://github.com/Kiakra/Alka Discord Tag of creator: Kiakra#2810

• Game engine written in zig, compatible with zig version 0.8.0.
• This engine does provide a toolset for you but generally you have to implement how they work and how should be.
• Has an ECS

https://github.com/leroycep/seizer Discord Tag of Creator: geemili#6637

• a Zig library for making games that target the desktop and browser. It exposes an OpenGL ES 3.0 rendering context and cross platform file loading functions.
• Has an example game here: https://github.com/leroycep/2021-7drl/

https://github.com/zenith391/didot Discord tag of Creator: Zen1th#3854

• 3D zig game engine, multi-threaded and modular.
• It even has an editor! https://github.com/zenith391/didot-editor

https://github.com/jack-ji/zplay Discord tag of Creator: jackji#4456

• 2D simple zig framework intended for game/tool creation
• currently runs on zig 0.9* main branch

https://github.com/danielabbott/Zig-Game-Engine

• Made in Zig 0.6
• 3D OpenGL forward renderer. https://github.com/fubark/cosmic Discord tag of creator: fubar#8568
• Single tool that lets you build javascript/TS apps for UI or games
• HOWEVER, it also has a custom zig graphics library as one of its dependencies
• https://github.com/fubark/cosmic/tree/master/graphics
  • Pretty far along, can even read svg files

Zig Game UI

https://github.com/JonSnowbd/ZT Discord Tag of creator: Aetherwind#8836

• A zig-contained library for Windows and Ubuntu that automatically compiles and links ImGui, OpenGL, stb_image, and GLFW into typed packages.
• ZT will always target the latest dev version of Zig, and will create a branch for stable releases when convenient.
• More of a UI thing than gamedev, but seems related

Zig Game Dev Adjacent Libraries

https://github.com/prime31/zig-ecs

• zig rewrite of the popular ECS library Entt.

Zig Ports of C Libraries

https://github.com/Guigui220D/zig-sfml-wrapper

• Zig wrapper for the SFML library

https://github.com/MasterQ32/SDL.zig

• Zig package that provides you with the means to link SDL2 to your project

https://github.com/Snektron/vulkan-zig

• Vulkan bindings for Zig

https://github.com/SpexGuy/Zig-Oculus-Quest

• Oculus Quest and Quest 2 bindings for Zig

https://github.com/hexops/mach-glfw

• Ziggified GLFW bindings

Zig Game Art Tools

https://github.com/fabioarnold/MiniPixel

• tiny pixel art editor made in zig

Zig Game Dev Tutorials

https://dev.to/fabioarnold/setup-zig-for-gamedev-2bmf

• a step by step guide on how to get started with game development using the Zig programming language on Windows