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rlsw – Raylib software OpenGL renderer in less than 5k LOC

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241 points fschuett | 1 comments | 21 Oct 25 21:00 UTC | HN request time: 0.203s | source
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pbohun ◴[22 Oct 25 02:44 UTC] No.45664365[source]▶
What's cool about this is that computers are so fast that you could probably make a decent 2D game using only this software-rendered OpenGL 1.1 library.
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1. mvx64 ◴[22 Oct 25 10:30 UTC] No.45667100[source]▶
If you keep resolution low, manage your scene complexity carefully and commit to the art style, you can make reasonable 3D games that run even on 20 year old hardware. I did so as an experiment on my game [1] [2] and now that I can see that it works, I am working on a second, more "serious" and complete one. Computers are fast.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45270981

[2] https://totenarctanz.itch.io/a-scavenging-trip

Really cool news about raylib. I will seriously consider using this.