go-sdl2

I'm working on a little 2D action puzzle game in Go on top of SDL (with bindings via https://github.com/veandco/go-sdl2). The prompt I've given myself is "Chip's Challenge meets Hotline Miami," but who knows how much of either of those elements will remain after I keep evolving the capabilities and general feel of the gameplay. For dev graphics I'm just cobbling together sprites from various pixel-arty asset packs I've purchased on itch.io, but in the future if I want to commercialize it I'll probably want to work with an artist to develop a unified look-and-feel for the game--I may even switch to 3D/2.5D depending on how the tone and my workflow evolve. I've experimented with Unity, Godot, and GameMaker in the past, but for the time being I'd like to see what I can accomplish on my own in Go to keep my dev chops sharp especially since I'

https://github.com/veandco/go-sdl2 or I'll try something like https://github.com/fzipp/canvas

https://github.com/veandco/go-sdl2 is the SDL binding most people are using. It is solid.

Go has an excellent set of SDL2 bindings: https://github.com/veandco/go-sdl2 They do a very good job of making the API relatively idiomatic to Go without adding overhead, and I haven't run into any bugs yet. I have been using them as part of a twitch series that teaches programming via small game projects. I go through how to get SDL2 up and running in episode 6: https://www.twitch.tv/jackmott42/videos/all There are aspects of Go that should make it better for game related programming. The low latency GC is a very good thing, compiling to native binaries means quicker start up time, and better responsiveness than a JIT, and easier distribution. Fast compile times are also very nice for many game programming workflows.