Options for Cross-Platform 3D Game Development

[ryuukk_]

On Wednesday, 5 July 2023 at 22:27:46 UTC, Andrew wrote:
> So, I've gotten the itch to have a go at game development in D, 
> after doing a bit of it in Java last year. I've previously used 
> LWJGL, which is a java wrapper for OpenGL, OpenAL, GLFW, and 
> some other useful libs.
>
> The problem is, apparently OpenGL is deprecated for apple 
> devices, so I don't really want to use that unless there are no 
> decent alternatives.
>
> So far, the most promising I've seen is 
> [bindbc-bgfx](https://code.dlang.org/packages/bindbc-bgfx), but 
> it's been a pain to set up due to having to build the bgfx 
> codebase, which requires a specific version of glibc that my 
> distro (Linux Mint) doesn't offer yet.
>
> Are there any other recommendations for cross-platform 
> rendering libraries? Of course I could use a pre-made game 
> engine like Unity or Godot, but for me, most of the fun is in 
> making the engine.

Depends what you really want to do


If you need something that provides you an API to render things 
directly without doing raw GPU commands, then RayLib is 
excellent, you can still build your engine around it, it act like 
a framework a la libGDX/XNA/MonoGame

- https://github.com/schveiguy/raylib-d


If you want to create your own engine from scratch, then Vulkan 
(works on mobile/linux/windows and macOS via moltenvk)

Or you can use WebGPU, despite its name it's crossplatform, 
targets Web via wasm (with LDC, requires some extra work tho), 
Windows, Linux, macOS, mobiles

- https://github.com/gecko0307/bindbc-wgpu