Windows APIs

Microsoft's core set of application programming interfaces available in Windows operating systems

Pygame is a cross-platform set of Python modules designed for writing video games. It includes computer graphics and sound libraries designed to be used with the Python programming language.

free software multimedia library

software library for video game development

universal application platform created and developed by Microsoft for Microsoft Windows

cross-platform software development library designed to provide a simple application programming interface (API) to various multimedia components in computers

platform-agnostic component and application architecture

file format for applications built upon the Universal Windows Platform and used across compatible Microsoft Windows systems

GLFW (Graphics Library Framework) is a lightweight utility library for use with OpenGL, OpenGL ES and Vulkan. It provides programmers with the ability to create and manage windows as well as OpenGL and Vulkan contexts, as well as handle joystick, keyboard and mouse input.

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Raylib (stylized as raylib) is a cross-platform open-source software development library. The library was made to create graphical applications and games.

is a source code header file that Microsoft provides for the development of programs that access the Windows API (WinAPI) via C language. It declares the WinAPI functions, associated data types and common macros.

ClanLib is a video game SDK, supporting Microsoft Windows, macOS, and Linux, with partial support for mobile platforms. It has full hardware accelerated graphics support through OpenGL, and also a software renderer. ClanLib also helps in playing sound, using the Vorbis or MikMod libraries, and has classes for collision detection, GUIs, XML, networking, and other things that may be helpful to a game programmer.