awesome-code-for-gamedev

A curated list of awesome (cpp,go,rust) libraries,frameworks,softwares for game development IMHO

Version 0.11

• to be ready items

Production-Ready / Essential Items

Game Engines and Frameworks

• UnrealEngine (cpp)- Unreal Engine source code

• unity3d (c#) - commercial cross-platform game engine

• godot (cpp) - 2D and 3D cross-platform game engine

  • godot github

• cocos2d-x (cpp) - Cocos2d-x is a suite of open-source, cross-platform, game-development tools used by millions of developers all over the world.

  • cocos creator

IDEs and Code Editors

• Visual Studio 2017,2019,2022 (c++,c#)
• Visual Studio Code (c++,rust,golang)
• CLion (c++,rust) - A cross-platform IDE for C and C++
• Goland (golang) - a cross-platform IDE built specially for Go developers
• Rider ( C# ) - Fast & powerful cross-platform .NET IDE

Package Manager

• vcpkg (cpp)
• cargo (rust)

Build

• CMake
  • cpp starter project -
• genie - a project generator tool. It automagically generates project from Lua script, making applying the same settings for multiple projects easy.

Computer Graphics

3D Creation Tools

• 3DSMax - 3D modeling and rendering software for design visualization, games, and animation
• Maya - 3D computer animation, modeling, simulation, and rendering software
• cinema4d - 3D computer animation, modeling, simulation, and rendering software
• Blender - Open source 3D creation. Free to use for any purpose, forever.

Graphics API/SDK

• directx - a set of APIs that you can use to create games and other high-performance multimedia applications.
• vulkan - an open standard and cross-platform Application Programming Interface (API) developed by the Khronos® Group.
• opengl-es - The Standard for Embedded Accelerated 3D Graphics
• metal - a low-level, low-overhead hardware-accelerated 3D graphic and compute shader API created by Apple.
• opengl - The Industry's Foundation for High Performance Graphics

Landscape, World

for unrealengine

• World
  • BrushFy - The #1 Environment Toolkit for Unreal Engine 4
  • RVT landscape - How to create a terrain in UE4 with RVT Optimized for Open-World
  • Voxel Plugin - allows to create fully volumetric, entirely destructible, infinite worlds in Unreal Engine. It is compatible with 4.24, 4.25, 4.26, 4.27 and Unreal 5.
    • Voxel Plugin source
• Foliage
  • SpeedTree - an Award-winning 3D Procedural vegetation middleware product with fine-tuned art controls. Includes Modeler, Compiler, Tree Library and full-source SDK.
• TrueSky - The ultimate real-time weather renderer, as seen in popular AAA game titles.
• grass
• water
• lighting
• fog
• level streaming
• HLOD

3D Rendering Library

• bgfx (cpp) - Cross-platform rendering library
  • bgfx-rs (rust) - Rust bindings to bgfx, a cross-platform, graphics API agnostic, "Bring Your Own Engine/Framework" style rendering library.