Hi Guys, OP here. > Why not Unity or UE5? Why Zig? I'm building relatively small game, I don't really need full game engine. I try to write simple code that d

Hi Guys, OP here. > Why not Unity or UE5? Why Zig? I'm building relatively small game, I don't really need full game engine. I try to write simple code that does only what I really need. I want to push Zig forward, I want to promote it. I was working with UE5 and Unity at AMD - those engines are really huge, bloated and they are changing very fast. I want to keep control over my code. Again, I don't need 90% of their features. I like low-level stuff and I want to master my skill. > Why zig-gamedev project? I want to help others learning Zig. I want to create demos, audio-visual experiments and even some art stuff. I'm interested in intersection of art and science. I want to prototype and experiment with ideas that potentially will be used in game (tech, algorithms, etc.). > Why Windows and DX12? DX12 is really well supported by Microsoft. They have great tools. They have interop with Direct2D and DirectWrite. They have DirectML (built on top of DX12). Windows itself has builtin decoders for most video formats (I will need this and I don't want to include entire ffmpeg). I'm most familiar with DX12. DX12 is a bit less verbose than Vulkan. I don't have a bandwidth to care about other platforms. Focusing only on Windows lets me write simpler and often more optimized code. Also, drivers are really mature and stable. > Why to take risk? I was working for big corporations for ~12 years now. Money is good but you don't really realize your ideas there. You don't own what you build. Now, I want to create my own stuff, my way, using my ideas. Money will come later.