raylib-game-template-zig

The code in this repository is a translation and refactoring of C source code found at:

https://github.com/raysan5/raylib-game-template

The original code is Copyright (c) 2014-2025 Ramon Santamaria

For documentation refer to the repository above.

translation

The original code is written in C. This code was manually translated to zig and then refactored to be more "zig like" using established zigisms.

• zig naming conventions - except for all capitals constants names that were originally #define
• no global (ie. file scope) var variables
• each screen in the original is represented in zig by its own struct with consistent methods
  • init()
  • deinit() where applicable
  • update()
  • draw()
• the screen instances are held in a tagged union
• there are no zig tests
• developed and run on Microsoft Windows 11 only

zig and raylib versions

• zig-0.15.0-dev.515 (May 2025)
• raylib dev (May 2025)

Please don't be surprised if the project does not compile without tweaking - this is not set up for the unwary.

to run

zig build run