Open-source Android game written in Go
Hi HN! So this all started out as an experiment. I wanted to test the Golang gomobile library to build a small app on Android in Go. And it turned out to be a game, and harder than I thought... After a lot of work and many gotchas (and a lot of moments where I was about to give up and started to squint on Unity) I finally manage to create a working game for Android with Go. The game is quite simple and if it wasn't for being written in OpenGL/OpenAL from scratch it would be quite simple to make it in Unity or any other game engine for that matter. Another goal of my project was actually…
Open-source Android game written in Go launched on January 10, 2022 with 12 votes, #1,059 of 2,891 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.
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This is an open-source Android game built entirely in Go using the gomobile library, with graphics and audio rendered from scratch using OpenGL and OpenAL. Created as an experiment to test Go's mobile capabilities, it targets developers interested in game development with Go rather than traditional game engines. The project stands out for being a fully functional game developed in Go and made available as both open-source code and a PlayStore application.
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Hi HN! So this all started out as an experiment. I wanted to test the Golang gomobile library to build a small app on Android in Go. And it turned out to be a game, and harder than I thought... After a lot of work and many gotchas (and a lot of moments where I was about to give up and started to squint on Unity) I…
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