• Zig-Platformer
  • Support OS
  • Build and run
  • Key operation
  • Tutorial sources
  • Other SDL game tutorial platfromer project
  • Other project

Now work in progress.

Tutorial: Writing a 2D Platform Game in Zig language with SDL2.

This repository has been inherited from Nim-Platformer, LuaJIT-Platformer and Nelua-Platformer project.

• Document
  English: https://hookrace.net/blog/writing-a-2d-platform-game-in-nim-with-sdl2/
  Japanese: https://postd.cc/writing-a-2d-platform-game-in-nim-with-sdl2/

Skin database https://ddnet.org/skins

• Windows: zig-0.14.0-dev.3445+6c3cbb0c8.zip (2025/03/02)
• Linux Debian: zig-0.14.0-dev.3445+6c3cbb0c8.tar.xz
• zig-0.13.0

• Windows10 or later

  • MSys2/MinGW basic commands (make, rm, cp, strip ...)

• Linux: Debian families

  $ sudo apt install xorg-dev libopengl-dev libgl1-mesa-dev
  $ sudo apt install libsdl2-dev

git clone /~https://github.com/dinau/zig-platformer
cd zig-platformer

For instance,

cd part3
make run       # or zig build --release=fast run

platformer_part1
platformer_part2
platformer_part3
platformer_part4
platformer_part5 : From here it can move the item with key operation.
platformer_part6
platformer_part7
[platformer_part8]