Appendix E: Links and references

Every external resource the book points to, grouped.

Odin (official)

• Home: https://odin-lang.org/
• Install guide: https://odin-lang.org/docs/install/
• Language overview (the tour): https://odin-lang.org/docs/overview/
• FAQ: https://odin-lang.org/docs/faq/
• Package / core-library docs: https://pkg.odin-lang.org/
• core:math: https://pkg.odin-lang.org/core/math/
• core:math/rand: https://pkg.odin-lang.org/core/math/rand/
• core:strconv: https://pkg.odin-lang.org/core/strconv/
• core:os: https://pkg.odin-lang.org/core/os/
• core:fmt: https://pkg.odin-lang.org/core/fmt/
• core:c: https://pkg.odin-lang.org/core/c/
• base:runtime: https://pkg.odin-lang.org/base/runtime/
• Source: https://github.com/odin-lang/Odin
• ols language server: https://github.com/DanielGavin/ols
• The bundled raylib binding lives inside the Odin distribution at vendor/raylib (raylib.odin, raymath.odin, easings.odin), imported as import rl "vendor:raylib".

raylib (official)

• Home: https://www.raylib.com/
• Cheatsheet: https://www.raylib.com/cheatsheet/cheatsheet.html
• Examples: https://www.raylib.com/examples.html
• Wiki (incl. distribution notes): https://github.com/raysan5/raylib/wiki
• Source: https://github.com/raysan5/raylib

Going deeper on Odin

• _Understanding the Odin Programming Language_ by Karl Zylinski: https://odinbook.com/, the thorough, standalone treatment of the whole language; the natural next step after this book.

Sibling volume / further learning resource

• _Yo Odin_: https://nofuss.co.za/yo_odin/, the same house style applied to a WebAssembly game built from scratch down to the browser boundary. Neither book requires the other; they are mirror images (desktop/native here, web/WASM there).

Concepts referenced (search terms, not APIs)

• Game loop and delta time: "fix your timestep".
• Jump feel: "platformer jump feel coyote time", "jump buffering".
• Game feel / "juice": the talk "Juice it or lose it" (Martin Jonasson & Petri Purho).
• Collision: "AABB collision detection".
• Endless generation: "endless runner procedural chunk spawning".
• Audio: "ADSR envelope", "PCM audio basics".

Credits

raylib is by Ramon Santamaria (raysan5) and contributors. Odin is by Ginger Bill and contributors.