• Zig-Platformer
• Prerequisites
  • Zig version
  • Support OS
  • Build and run
  • Key operation
  • Tutorial sources
  • SDL librarys
  • Other SDL game tutorial platfromer project
  • Other project

Zig-Platformer

Tutorial: Writing a 2D Platform Game in Zig language with SDL2 / SDL3 / SDL_ttf.

This repository has been inherited from Nim-Platformer, LuaJIT-Platformer and Nelua-Platformer project.

• Document
  English: https://hookrace.net/blog/writing-a-2d-platform-game-in-nim-with-sdl2/
  Japanese: https://postd.cc/writing-a-2d-platform-game-in-nim-with-sdl2/

Skin database https://ddnet.org/skins

Prerequisites

Zig version

0.15.0-dev.1593+399bace2f

Support OS

• Windows10 or later

  • MSys2/MinGW basic commands (make, rm, cp, strip ...)

• Linux: Debian families

  $ sudo apt install libopengl-dev libgl1-mesa-dev
  $ sudo apt install libsdl2-dev libsdl2-ttf-dev
  

  See SDL3 intallation on Linux

• MacOS: P.R.

Build and run

git clone https://github.com/dinau/zig-platformer
cd zig-platformer/tutorial

For instance,

cd sdl2/part3
make run       

or

cd sdl2/part3
zig build --release=fast
cd zig-out/bin 
part3.exe

You can build SDL3 tutorials same as SDL2.

Key operation

Tutorial sources

SDL librarys

https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/releases

Other SDL game tutorial platfromer project

Other project