Originally spawned in July 2021 by Michal Ziulek. We build a game development ecosystem for the Zig programming language and toolchain.
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- A very modular toolbox of libraries.
- Libraries are written from scratch in Zig or provide Ziggified bindings and build systems for carefully selected C and C++ libraries.
- No system dependencies other than Zig required to build and run on popular target platforms.
What was the original monorepo, the zig-gamedev dev repo is the main development hub for the zig-gamedev libraries.
NOTE: Libraries are currently being migrated to their own repositories.
| Library | Description |
|---|---|
| system-sdk | System libraries and headers for cross-compiling zig-gamedev libs |
| zaudio | Cross-platform audio using miniaudio |
| zbullet | Build package, C API and bindings for Bullet physics |
| zflecs | Build package and bindings for flecs ECS |
| zemscripten | Build package and shims for Emscripten emsdk |
| zglfw | Build package & bindings for GLFW |
| zgpu | Small helper library built on top of Dawn native WebGPU implementation |
| zgui | Build package and bindings for Dear Imgui, Test engine, ImPlot, ImGuizmo and imgui-node-editor |
| zjobs | Generic job queue implementation |
| zmath | SIMD math library for game developers |
| zmesh | Loading, generating, processing and optimizing triangle meshes |
| znoise | Build package & bindings for FastNoiseLite |
| zopengl | OpenGL loader (supports 4.2 Core Profile and ES 2.0 Profile) |
| zopenvr | Bindings for OpenVR |
| zphysics | Build package, C API and bindings for Jolt Physics |
| zpix | Support for GPU profiling with PIX for Windows |
| zpool | Generic pool & handle implementation |
| zsdl | Bindings for SDL2 and SDL3 |
| zstbi | Image reading, writing and resizing with stb libraries |
| ztracy | Support for CPU profiling with Tracy |
| zwindows | Windows development SDK for Zig game developers. |
- Tides of Revival - First-person, open-world, fantasy RPG being developed in the open
- Simulations - GPU Accelerated agent-based modeling to visualize and simulate complex systems
- krateroid - 3D strategy game
- blokens - Voxel game
- Delve Framework - Simple game framework for making games with Lua
- jok - A minimal 2D/3D game framework for Zig
- Aftersun - Top-down 2D RPG
- Pixi - Pixel art editor made with Zig
Zig is still in development. We track are currently tracking 0.13.0-dev.351+64ef45eb0.
zigup is recommended for managing compiler versions. Alternatively, you can download and install manually using the links below:
| OS/Arch | Download link |
|---|---|
| Windows x86_64 | zig-windows-x86_64-0.13.0-dev.351+64ef45eb0.zip |
| Linux x86_64 | zig-linux-x86_64-0.13.0-dev.351+64ef45eb0.tar.xz |
| macOS x86_64 | zig-macos-x86_64-0.13.0-dev.351+64ef45eb0.tar.xz |
| macOS aarch64 | zig-macos-aarch64-0.13.0-dev.351+64ef45eb0.tar.xz |
