Inspired by Handmade Hero, the Handmade Network community has produced a wide variety of fantastic projects, including apps, debuggers, editors, libraries, and even programming languages.
Featured Projects
Handmade Hero
An ongoing project to create a complete, professional-quality game accompanied by videos that explain every single line of its source code.
Casey Muratori
RemedyBG
A Windows x64 debugger
x13pixels
Orca
A WebAssembly runtime environment for portable graphical apps.
Martin Fouilleul
BEdit
A structured binary file editor
Jens
File Pilot
File Pilot is a file explorer built from scratch for light-speed performance, with a modern and robust interface.
Vjekoslav
Half-Edge
a modern 3D modeling tool designed for game developers
Freya Holmér
Meese Engine
Voxel game for the Gamecube, Wii, Dreamcast, and PC.
Meese
4coder
A programmable, cross platform, IDE template
Allen Webster
Cakelisp
Metaprogrammable, hot-reloadable, no-GC language for high perf programs (especially games), with seamless C/C++ interop
Macoy Madson
WhiteBox
WhiteBox is a live code visualizer/debugger. It is a tool to show developers how their code behaves as they write it.
Andrew Reece
Essence
An operating system, from scratch.
nakst
wcap
Simple and efficient screen recording utility for Windows
Mārtiņš Možeiko
Screen Buddy
Simple application for easy remote desktop screen sharing over internet
Mārtiņš Možeiko
spall
Spall is a fast, simple, portable profiler, made to make tracing large programs fast and easy.
Colin
Cactus Image Viewer
A lightweight image viewer written in C/C++.
Wassimulator
raylib
raylib is a simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy videogames programming.
Ray
Darke
Version control for everyone
abec
CuikC
A modern C11 compiler
Yasser Arguelles
Brainroll
A handmade built sokoban-style puzzle game.
Nullsson
Odin
An open source systems programming language designed for the modern computer and programmer.
Ginger Bill
AV-Racer
A 2D top down retro style arcade racing game, with career and two player split screen modes.
Wassimulator
Happenlance
An online ragdoll joust-'em-up where your lance is your trampoline
Miles
Phillip Trudeau-Tavara
SilverNode
The last RAW photo editor you will ever need.
Marcel Samyn
Martijn Courteaux
Handmade Hero Notes
A textbook following Handmade Hero journey and expanding along the way
Yakvi
STB libraries
Single-file header-file libraries for C/C++
Sean Barrett
Integrate
A subtractive synthesizer.
nakst
C3
C evolved: The C3 programming language
Christoffer Lernö
nCine
A cross-platform 2D game engine with an emphasis on performance, written in C++11 and optionally scriptable in Lua
Angelo Theodorou
CToy
C live-coding environment
anaël seghezzi
AOgmaNeo
A non-Deep Learning based, from scratch, very fast machine learning system.
CireNeikual
insobot
C99 modular IRC bot for GNU/Linux
Alex Baines
Cinera
Makes your dreams come true, one annotation at a time
Matt Mascarenhas
RISCY BUSINESS
A video series in which programmer Neo Ar develops a handmade toolchain for RISC-V. The whole series is available at http://riscy.tv/
Neo Ar
MotionBox
MotionBox is a Video Browser for Motion Freedom
Benjamin Arnaud
Todool
To-Do Editor with different modes, advanced movement & powerful commands
Skytrias | Michael Kutowski
Bitwise
Bitwise is an educational project where we create the software/hardware stack for a computer from scratch.
Per Vognsen
msf_gif.h
Fast single-header GIF export library suitable for real-time gif recording.
Miles
Milton
Milton: Paint with an infinite canvas
Sergio González
Cute Exporter
PSD layers to PNG texutre atlas tool.
Clay Murray
Metadesk
An ergonomic parser library for a simple, yet versatile, data description language, hand-tuned for DSLs and metaprogramming.
Miguel Lechón
Allen Webster
Ryan Fleury
MPlay3 - MP3 Music Player
A music player that lists and plays all .mp3 files in a given folder.
Tim Dierks
Meta Assembly Language
Meta-programming language and compiler that should let you do anything you want
Dmitriy Kubyshkin
Pepper Editor
An opinionated modal editor to simplify code editing from the terminal
matheus
Syzygy
Syzygy is an enigmatic game focused on the ability of morphing at will a square world into triangles and hexagons
Riccardo Caprari
Feoh the Fitter
A puzzle game about tetris
Oliver Marsh
Cyborg Earthworm
A visual programming game
Anton Swifton
Escher
A minimalist puzzle game about navigating simple spaces in impossible ways
Miles
miniglut
minimal single-file GLUT implementation without unnecessary dependencies
John Tsiombikas
Light Tracer Render
Tool to produce photorealistic renderings interactively, in both desktop Web browser and standalone application
hb3p8
miniaudio
A single file audio playback and capture library written in C.
David Reid
Break Arcade Games Out
An open-source public-domain game, written entirely on a live stream. What if Breakout was the only arcade game people could make?
Dan Zaidan
Tilengine - True 2D retro graphics engine
Welcome back the true raster effect graphics of the 8/16 bit era videogames!
Marc Palacios
Indigrid
Plain text outliner with side-by-side views.
Mark Nevarrik
librg
Pure C library for building simple and elegant cross-platform mmo client-server solutions.
inlife
Dominik Madarász
Handmade Math
A simple, easy-to-use, single-header math library for games and graphics.
Ben Visness
Goxel
3D Voxel Editor
guillaumec
gb Libraries
Single-file public domain libraries for C & C++
Ginger Bill
SoLoud Audio Engine
Free, easy, portable audio engine for games
Jari Komppa