Open Source Go Game Engines

Engo is an open-source 2D game engine written in Go. It uses the Entity-Component-System paradigm. The code is available on GitHub. If you encounter any problems, find any bugs, or want to request a feature, you can open an issue or chat with us on gitter. A cross-platform game engine written in Go following an interpretation of the Entity Component System paradigm. Engo is currently compilable for Mac OSX, Linux and Windows. With the release of Go 1.4, supporting Android and the inception of iOS compatibility, mobile has been be added as a release target. Web support (wasm) is also available. v1.0 is now available! To celebrate, there will be a game jam coming soon to celebrate the release, start actually building things and hopefully find any issues. Updates for this will come soon.

G3N (pronounced "gen") is an OpenGL 3D Game Engine written in Go. It can be used to write cross-platform Go applications that show rich and dynamic 3D representations - not just games. A basic integrated GUI framework is provided, and 3D spatial audio is supported through OpenAL. Go 1.8+ is required. The engine also requires the system to have an OpenGL driver and a GCC-compatible C compiler. On Unix-based systems, the engine depends on some C libraries that can be installed using the appropriate distribution package manager. See below for OS-specific requirements. Then install the same packages as for Fedora - remember to use yum instead of dnf for the package installation command. The necessary audio DLLs are supplied and need to be added to your PATH. If you would like to build the DLLs yourself you can find the libraries' source code and build instructions.

Oak has recently brought in dependencies that include C code, but we still describe the engine as a Pure Go engine, which at face value seems contradictory. Oak's goal is that, by default, a user can pull down the engine and create a fully functional game or GUI application on a machine with no C compiler installed, so when we say Pure Go we mean that, by default, the library is configured so no C compilation is required, and that no major features are locked behind C compilation. We anticipate in the immediate future need to introduce alternate drivers that include C dependencies for performance improvements in some scenarios, and currently, we have no OSX solution that lacks objective C code. Integrated with optimized image manipulation via gift.

A hand-crafted 2D game library in Go. Take a look into the features to see what it can do. See the requirements for the list of libraries necessary for compilation. Fast 2D graphics, sprites, and primitive shapes with immediate mode style IMDraw (circles, rectangles, lines, ...) Optimized drawing with Batch. Text drawing with text package. Audio through a separate Beep library. Simple and convenient API. Drawing a sprite to a window is as simple as sprite.Draw(window, matrix) Wanna know where the center of a window is? window.Bounds().Center() Full documentation and tutorial. Works on Linux, macOS and Windows. Window creation and manipulation (resizing, fullscreen, multiple windows, ...) Keyboard (key presses, text input) and mouse input without events. Well integrated with the Go standard library. Use "image" package for loading pictures. Pixel let's you draw stuff and do your job, it doesn't impose any particular style or paradigm.