Welcome to my experimental game project written in Odin — a modern programming language built for systems programming and performance.

This project is my hands-on way of learning lower-level programming concepts like memory management, resource loading, and direct control over data — without the hand-holding of higher-level languages. I decided on using Odin as the language since it is built with data-oriented design in mind as well as game development, for which it has built-in libraries such as raylib.

• Build a simple 2D game from scratch using Odin
• Understand low-level systems like:
  • File I/O
  • Manual memory allocation
  • Rendering and texture management (more or less handled by raylib)
  • Code generation pre-compilation
• Learn by doing, breaking things, and fixing them

The end goal is to build a simple Galaga-sytle arcade shooter. The current basic goals are:

• Have some sort of state machine or room state logic (main menu, game, other screens)
• Have the player move side to side to shoot enemies that come in waves
• A level/stage system with each level ending in a boss fight
• A sidebar with a scoreboard, upgrades and information

More gameplay features that are unique to this game may happen as I explore further.

• Odin
• A C compiler (I believe clang specifically is needed for odin)

Currently I am working on this on a linux system and as such I am using bash scripts to build and run the project. Right now you can simply run run.sh to run the game. It will do all the code generation it needs to and then compile and run the actual game source code.