Game development on Alpine Linux

Game development is possible on Alpine Linux

Software libraries used in game development

Game engines

• PLIB - plib -- game engine
• Blender - blender -- a 3D modeler and animator with a game engine
• Minetest - minetest -- both a game engine and a game

Multimedia libraries

• Simple DirectMedia Layer - sdl
• Simple DirectMedia Layer 2.0 - sdl2
• SFML (Simple and Fast Multimedia Library) - sfml
• OpenAL Soft - openal-soft -- can be used for 3D sound for 3D games
• GLFW - glfw -- To create OpenGL context quickly with input support
• PyOpenGL - py-opengl -- OpenGL on Python

3D Libraries

• OpenGL Mathematics - glm - for 3D calculations to transform, rotate, scale stuff

Rendering and loading assets

• OpenSceneGraph - openscenegraph -- can be used to load 3D models and handle complexities of rendering a 3d scene

Fonts

• FTGL - ftgl -- to display text in OpenGL

Tools used to work or create art assets

• GIMP - gimp -- could be used to create 2D sprites
• Audacity - audacity -- could be used to slice sound assets
• Inkscape - inkscape -- could be used to make vector 2D art assets
• Blender - blender -- can be used to create 3D assets or models