Awesome SFML

A curated list of awesome things related to SFML

Inspired by the lists awesome, awesome-awesomeness, and awesome-nodejs.

Contributing

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Contents

• Awesome SFML
• Libraries and Resources
  • Components & Libraries
  • Bindings
  • Utilities
  • Tools
  • Websites
  • Books
  • Tutorials
    • Video
    • Text
• Projects
  • Engines
  • Games
    • Open Source
    • Proprietary
  • Other

Libraries and Resources

Components & Libraries

• imgui-sfml - ImGui binding for use with SFML.
• LTBL2 - A 2D dynamic lighting system with accurate soft shadows.
• SFGUI - Simple and Fast Graphical User Interface
• SFNUL - Simple and Fast Network Utility Library.
• TGUI - Easy to use cross-platform c++ GUI library for SFML.
• Thor - Extension with various game programming features, like particles, animations, vector operations.
• SFML-utils - Some adds to build games.
• SelbaWard - A collection of drawables.
• SFMLSoundSystem - Sound Control System for use with SFML.

Bindings

List of all the known SFML bindings

• C
• .Net (C#, VB.Net etc.)
• Crystal
• D
  • DerelictSFML2
  • DSFML
• Euphoria
• Free Pascal Compiler aka FPC
• Go
  • go-sfml
  • GoSFML2
• Haskell
• Java
• Julia
• Nim
• OCaml
  • Ocsfml
  • ocaml-sfml
• Pascal
• Python
• Ruby
• Rust

Utilities

Non-Game specific Library bundles, that provide reuseable functions

• tmxlite - Lightweight C++14 parser for Tiled tmx files.

Tools

Useful tools

• FM Composer - FM Composer. It's a software allowing the user to design their own sound using FM synthesis and create a song with them.

Websites

• www.sfml-dev.org - Official site.
  • The official tutorials
  • The online API documentation
  • The community wiki
  • The community forum (French)
• www.sfmlprojects.org - Discover and talk about projects built with or around the Simple and Fast Multimedia Library!
• www.reddit.com/r/sfml - Reddit topic.

Books

• Mastering SFML Game Development
• SFML Game Development
• SFML Essentials
• SFML Blueprints
• SFML Game Development By Example

Tutorials

Blogs and tutorials

Videos

• Building Games with SFML - A step-by-step introduction to SFML to help you build enjoyable, cross-platform games
• SFML 2.1 Tutorial Series - 52 tutorials.

Text

• Citybuilder - Creating a City Building Game with SFML.

Projects

Engines

• SFML-Game-Framework - Very, very simple and barebones framework for games and that.
• ObEngine - 2D Game Engine with Lua Scripting made on top of SFML!
• Vigilante-Game-Framework - 2D/3D C++ game framework written for use with SFML.
• Nero Game Engine - Game Engine made on SFML and Box2D.
• xygineXT - 2D engine / framework built around SFML.

Games

Open Source

Games with Open Source licenses

• Cendric - Cendric is part top-down RPG and part puzzle platformer.
• Pseuthe - Pseuthe (pronounced 'soothe') is an abstract audio / visual experience, with casual gameplay elements.
• Witch Blast - Witch Blast is a free roguelite dungeon crawl shooter heavily inspired from Binding Of Isaac.
• Rickety Racquet - Puzzle game.
• SpaceGO - A small space shooter game using C++ and SFML.
• HopsonCraft - A minecraft clone written using C++, SFML, OpenGL and GLEW.
• Hedgehogs Can Fly - 2D physics platformer game.
• ReJewel - Tetris like game.
• sfml-snake - Snake game in C++.
• Conway-s-Game-Of-Life - Game of life, in C++.
• SFML2-Game - SFML2 - Random Games.
• crsfml-examples - Simple games made with CrSFML.

Proprietary

Proprietary games

• Remnants of Naezith - Rush and swing through levels to top the leaderboards in this fast-paced, grappling hook precision platformer.
• The Man in the Cape: Special Edition - The Man in the Cape is captured and left for dead in Mr. Granderson’s superhero elimination dungeon.
• Zeran's Folly - Story-driven action-adventure with fluid melee combat, four unique playable characters, and a twisted sense of humor.
• CUIT - In CUIT, it is only you and your mind. A challenging and relaxing puzzle experience, ready to test you from top to bottom.
• Gemstone Keeper - Gemstone Keeper is a twin stick shooter where avid explorers go down into a large, dangerous and mysterious set of caves and caverns.
• An Octonaut Odyssey - It's a game about an amnesiac octopus lost in strange planets.
• Doodle Bob - DoodleBob is a cross between Little Computer People and perhaps Tamagotchi.
• Kronos - An Indie fantasy Action RPG game with lots of combat, puzzles and customization.
• The Night Christmas Ended - Team up with the world’s biggest goblin on his quest for gold and be a total Christmas bastard.
• Dispersio - Dispersio is a retro-styled action platformer. As you progress through the game, you will have to use and combine special abilities.
• The Away Team - In this interactive sci-fi adventure novel, you are the AI pilot of Earth's last interstellar ship, tasked with finding a home for your crew.
• Crea - Progress with every slain monster, learn skills through talents, craft items, and explore procedurally-generated worlds in this sandbox RPG!
• Turnover - In a dystopian future, a powerful corporation hires a private security firm to execute a violent takeover of a competitor's HQ.
• inSynch - An art-music-arcade game, inSynch is handcrafted and animated in stop motion.
• Pioneers - Pioneers is a turn-based exploration/adventure RPG.
• Maze - Dare through the creepy corridors of the mazes, but keep your guard up.
• Postmortem - Postmortem: One Must Die - Narrative-adventure playing an Agent of Death who must take ONE life that could change the fate of a conflict-torn Nation!
• Zloxx II - Zloxx II is a 2D Jump'n'Run in which you control a little character called Zloxx.
• Moonman - Moonman is a procedurally-generated adventure game!
• Re:creation - Re:creation is a top-down action adventure game
• Rising Reign - Rising Reign is a high fantasy role-playing game with rogue-like elements. Most content is procedurally generated during world construction.
• Takrog - Takrog is a tactical RPG with a smart procedural generation of the world, quests, and characters. Every game is different from the other.
• Castle Clamber - Castle Clamber is an arcade inspired action platformer for one or two players, either locally or over a network.
• Exodus - Exodus immerge yourself into a strange and fascinating world, where nature seems to predominate over everything else.
• Racod's Lair - A coop dungeon crawler.

Other

Other types of application

• FM Composer - Music and sound creation tool, featuring an FM synthesizer and a tracker-like interface.

License