Make 2D games, visual tools, and interactive apps in Roc, powered by raylib.
RocRay is for smaller graphical programs, such as games, visualizations, and interactive tools. It is not meant to compete with large, purpose-built game engines: it has no editor, scene graph, physics engine, or asset pipeline. Your app keeps its own state and makes every decision itself; RocRay provides drawing, sound, keyboard, mouse and gamepad input, the window, recording, files, and networking. It runs on macOS (Intel and Apple silicon), Linux x86-64, and Windows x86-64.
RocRay draws in 2D today. 3D models, cameras, and lighting are planned but not yet available. RocRay is not a GUI toolkit: for desktop applications built from widgets such as buttons, text fields, and layouts, see roc-gui.
Start with Hello World, Pong, and Snake. These larger examples show what else it can do:
 Breakout Arcade gameplay, sounds made in code, recording |
 Pixel Workshop Drawing pixels and creating sounds in code |
 Responsive Settings Keyboard, mouse, resizing, display scaling |
 Postcard Studio Generative art and saving larger images |
 Particles Thousands of moving images at once |
 Capture UI Demo Automated controls and GIF recording |
 Live Plot Loading and drawing hundreds of thousands of lines |
 Spark Run Designed map, characters, music, game states |
 Cave Climb Designed level, jumping, camera |
- Install the latest nightly build of the Roc compiler, as Getting started describes.
- Open the latest release,
download its
roc-ray-examples-<version>.zipand unzip it. - Open a terminal in the extracted
roc-ray-examples-<version>directory, and run:
roc version
roc examples/hello_world/main.rocFollow the manual to write your first app and learn the app model, input, drawing, tasks and permissions. See the API reference for exact interfaces, Contributing to change RocRay, and GitHub Releases for version-specific changes and downloads.
RocRay is released under the Universal Permissive License v1.0; see
LICENSE. That grant covers this project's own code and data.
Vendored libraries and example asset packs keep their own licences and
copyright holders, all indexed in
THIRD-PARTY-LICENCES.md.
RocRay follows the latest nightly build of the Roc compiler, and names no compiler of its own. Because Roc is still changing, RocRay's API may also change. Bug reports, documentation improvements, and focused new capabilities are welcome.