This is a couch co-op game made for fun and to learn odin, raylib, and more.

As it is for learning, no AI code generation or art will be used in the making of this project. I will however be using it for questions, syntax help, and more as a learning tool.

The goal of the game is a pico 8 inspired top down game. A sandbox for small top down games up to 8 players.

I made a simple top down movement in odin, zig and rust. Here are my thoughts on each at first glance:

Odin clicked immediately and stood out in its simplicity. Simple build system, quality vender libraries, proper string handling and memory management.

I really wanted to like Zig but it is quite cumbersome. I find the build system frustrating and the lack of qol features makes it less enjoyable.

I am a print debugger and zig makes this a major pain.

Not a fan of all the features and complexity but I am still drawn to it for its capability.