Projects

Handmade Hero

Handmade Hero is an ongoing project by Casey Muratori to create a complete, professional-quality game accompanied by videos that explain every single line of its source code. The series began on November 17th, 2014, and is estimated to run for at least 600 episodes. Programming sessions are limited to one hour per weekday so it remains manageable for people who practice coding along with the series at home.

For more information, see the official website at https://handmadehero.org

Odin

The Odin programming language is designed with the intent of creating an alternative to C with the following goals:

simplicity
high performance
built for modern systems
joy of programming

Website: https://odin-lang.org/

Documentation:

User Libraries:

Odin Libs

package main

import "core:fmt"

main :: proc() {
	program := "+ + * 😃 - /";
	accumulator := 0;

	for token in program {
		switch token {
		case '+': accumulator += 1;
		case '-': accumulator -= 1;
		case '*': accumulator *= 2;
		case '/': accumulator /= 2;
		case '😃': accumulator *= accumulator;
		case: // Ignore everything else
		}
	}

	fmt.printf("The program \"%s\" calculates the value %d\n",
	           program, accumulator);
}

Demonstrations:

raylib

raylib is a simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy videogames programming.

raylib project started as a personal need as a teacher, I needed a simple library to teach videogames development to young people with artistic profile, most of them had never written a single line of code. I decided to start with C because I consider very important to understand the roots of programming and how things really work in the background. I was looking for a simple C library for videogames programming but none in the market fit my needs and my teaching methodology, so, I decided to create my own: raylib.

raylib has been used with more than 1000 students with amazing results. All of them have learnt the basis of videogames programming, including the videogames working mechanisms: game life cycle, screens management, resources loading/unloading, variables updating, frame elements drawing, collisions detection and response, etc.

Thanks to students continuous feedback, raylib has grown during this time with hundreds of improvements and additions; right now in raylib webpage there are more than 120 code examples to start with the library and more than 20 sample games to learn videogames programming.

raylib is free and open-source.

DOWNLOAD raylib RELEASE

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NOTE for ADVENTURERS: raylib is a programming library to enjoy videogames programming; no fancy interface, no visual helpers, no auto-debugging... just coding in the most pure spartan-programmers way. Are you ready to learn? Jump to the code examples!

Handmade Math

Handmade Math is a simple, easy-to-use math library for games and graphics programming. It's a single header file, so it's easy to include in your project. It is fully compatible with C, but if you're using C++, you'll get operator overloading as well. The types are plain old data, and there's no object-oriented madness in your way. It's just math!

Handmade Math has support for vectors, matrices, and quaternions. It supports all arithmetic operations for those types, plus common graphics features like projection matrices and LookAt.

Handmade Math is under active development, so if you have any suggested features or improvements, please make an issue on the project's GitHub repository.

RemedyBG

RemedyBG is a 64-bit Windows debugger written from scratch with the goal of replacing the behemoth Visual Studio debugger.

Formerly, the idea was to integrate RemedyBG into the Vim text editor. However, doing so has slowed down development due to Vim's underpowered scripting language Vimscript (I'm no Tim Pope) along with how integrating external C-code was done (through Vim 8's jobs feature and through stdin/stdout/stderr -- ouch). I finally decided to ditch Vim (for this project, not as a text editor!) and render text windows in the debugger, instead. This also gives me the flexibility of rendering some interesting things like control flow arrows and so forth.

I, for one, fully support the handmade philosophy: RemedyBG doesn't use any third-party libraries (*). This includes Window's own Debug Help Library (DbgHelp), Debugger Engine (DbgEng), or even a library for reading symbol files (PDBs). I played around with these libraries to judge their effectiveness. Yes, using them can get you 80% of the functionality you need very quickly but after that you are forever 20% away from sweetness. And besides, Visual Studio is using these libraries and the whole point was to get away from this beast! All the code for RemedyBG is written from scratch which allows for a great deal of flexibility with respect to the functionality that can be implemented. There are a lot of interesting features coming down the pipe after realizing the wealth of information that the compiler emits.

(*) One caveat with respect to third-party libraries is that RemedyBG uses Intel's XED for diassembly. However, if you take a look at their dependencies they list the following: memcmp, memset, memcpy, strcmp, strncat, and strlen. No memory allocation, etc. Beautiful. I can get behind a library like this. Also, for the user interface, I am using Dear ImGui which has been a joy to use.

Essence

An operating system I've been writing since ~June 2017.
Although it's a long shot (and very optimistic), I ultimately intend it to replace Linux and Windows as a desktop operating system.
Source: https://gitlab.com/nakst/essence

Escher

In the world of Escher, perception informs reality, and the world is always as you see it. If it looks like two platforms connect, then they do. All it takes is a little change in perspective.

Escher is a minimalist non-euclidian puzzle game about optical illusions. It started its life as the winner of a local game jam, and is now being developed into a commercial game, currently aimed to launch sometime in 2020.

We are writing the game mostly from scratch, without an engine, on top of SDL and OpenGL.

4coder

4coder preview video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nop5UW2kV3I

4coder differentiates from other editors by focusing on powerful C/C++ customization and extension, and ease of cross platform use. This means that 4coder greatly reduces the cost of creating cross platform development tools such as debuggers, code intelligence systems. It means that tools specialized to your particular needs can be programmed in C/C++ or any language that interfaces with C/C++, which is almost all of them.

In other words, 4coder is attempting to live in a space between an IDE and a power editor such as Emacs or Vim.

Want to try it out? Get your alpha build now!

STB libraries

The stb libraries are a collection of single-file header-file libraries for C/C++
in the public domain, primarily aimed at game developers. They are designed to be easy to integrate, easy to use, and easy to release. Some libraries are bread-and-butter (image file loading), some are deeply esoteric (level generation).

Milton

Milton is a free and open-source, inifinte canvas paint program.

With Milton, you can paint with (almost) infinite detail. It feels raster-based but it works with vectors.

It is not an image editor. It is not a vector graphics editor. It is a program that lets you draw, sketch and paint.

There is no save button, your work is persistent with unlimited undo.

Download the latest release here: https://github.com/serge-rgb/milton/releases/