Full-size demo gallery
Every example at full size, linked from the example catalog's preview thumbnails. Every GIF here is committed. They are regenerated by bb record, a maintainer-only task driving a screen-capture tool that is not publicly released; the per-example capture settings and input timelines live in scripts/demo_manifest.edn.
🎮 Original games (9)
hello-world
the minimal raylib window + text (Q exits, F1 toggles debug stats)
pong
two-paddle classic, P1 (W/S) vs P2 (K/J)
asteroids
the classic vector shooter (rotate/thrust/fire)
asteroids2
an alternate asteroids build (rotate/thrust/fire)
tetris
the block-stacking puzzle (move/rotate/drop)
vampire-survivors
auto-fire survival: move (WASD), waves chase you
snake
the classic snake (arrow keys, grow, don't crash)
floppy
flap through the pipe gaps (SPACE)
retro-maze-3d
a GameBoy-style 3D maze escape (WASD + mouse look)
📦 Core (37)
bouncing-ball
a ball bouncing around the window (SPACE pauses, G toggles gravity)
following-eyes
two eyes track the mouse
screen-manager
a LOGO/TITLE/GAMEPLAY/ENDING state flow (ENTER advances)
input-keys
steer a ball with the arrow keys
input-mouse
a ball follows the mouse; click to recolor
input-gamepad
a live gamepad axis/button readout
mouse-wheel
scroll a box with the mouse wheel
gestures-testbed
a testbed for raylib's touch/click gesture detection
scissor-test
a scissor rectangle clips a grid (S toggles, mouse moves it)
random-values
a new random value every two seconds
camera-2d
a 2D camera over a scene (arrows pan, A/S rotate, wheel zooms)
camera-3d-free
a free-orbit 3D camera (mouse look, wheel zoom)
split-screen-3d
two 3D viewports, one per player (W/S, UP/DOWN)
first-person-3d
a first-person camera walkthrough (WASD + mouse, 1-4 switch modes)
camera-fps
an FPS camera with jump/crouch physics (WASD, Space, Ctrl)
world-screen
project 3D world points to 2D screen space (mouse, wheel)
picking-3d
click to raycast and pick a 3D cube
collision-area
AABB collision between two boxes (mouse moves, SPACE)
colors-palette
every named raylib color in a grid (hover, SPACE)
logo-anim
the raylib logo animating in (R replays)
window-should-close
intercept the close button with a Y/N confirm
camera-2d-platformer
5 platformer camera-follow styles (SPACE cycles, C/R/wheel)
window-letterbox
resolution-independent rendering via letterboxing (SPACE, resize)
camera-2d-split-screen
two players, two cameras, one grid (P1 W/S/A/D, P2 arrows)
camera-3d-mode
a minimal 3D scene, one cube on a grid
delta-time
frame-rate independent vs fixed-step motion (wheel changes the FPS cap, R resets)
input-gestures
a running log of detected touch gestures (click, drag, or flick in the test area)
input-multitouch
a numbered circle per touch point
input-virtual-controls
an on-screen D-pad (click the pad)
keyboard-testbed
an on-screen ENG-US keyboard that lights up as you press keys (hover highlights a key)
render-texture
a bouncing ball drawn into an offscreen target, then blitted
smooth-pixelperfect
a pixel-aligned world viewed through a sub-pixel smooth camera
storage-values
save and load values to a file (R randomises, ENTER saves, SPACE loads)
undo-redo
a ring-buffer undo history on a grid (arrows move, SPACE recolours, CTRL+Z / CTRL+Y)
viewport-scaling
six ways to fit a fixed-resolution game onto a resizable window (click < > to change resolution and mode)
input-actions
a box steered through an action layer, so WASD and the arrow keys can drive the same actions (TAB swaps keysets)
clipboard-text
cut, copy and paste against the system clipboard, by button or by CTRL+X / CTRL+C / CTRL+V
🔷 Shapes (28)
logo-raylib
the raylib logo built from rectangles + text
logo-raylib-anim
the logo animating together, piece by piece (R replays)
basic-shapes
circles, rectangles, triangles, polygons + an rlgl triangle
rectangle-scaling
drag the bottom-right corner to resize a rectangle
mouse-trail
a fading trail follows the cursor
lines-bezier
a cubic bezier curve, drag the endpoints
easings-ball
a ball animating along an easing curve (ENTER replays)
ball-physics
grab, throw, and resize bouncing balls (click, right-click, wheel)
simple-particles
water/smoke/fire particle effects (arrows switch, click emits)
dashed-line
a dashed line follows the mouse (arrows, C)
starfield-effect
a 3D starfield flying toward the camera (SPACE, wheel)
easings-box
a grid of boxes, each on a different easing curve (SPACE resets)
double-pendulum
chaotic double-pendulum motion + trail
lines-drawing
click-drag to paint a rainbow fan of thick lines
easings-rectangles
a grid of rectangles animating on easing curves (SPACE replays)
bullet-hell
rows of bullets fired from a rotating circle (ENTER switches between texture and circle drawing)
clock-of-clocks
digits drawn from a grid of analogue clocks (SPACE toggles 12/24h)
easings-testbed
all 28 easing curves, one per axis (arrows pick the curves, ENTER plays)
ellipse-collision
steer one ellipse into another (A/B switch which one the mouse drives)
math-angle-rotation
fixed and sweeping angle lines
penrose-tile
an L-system Penrose tiling drawn by turtle (UP/DOWN change the generation count)
circle-sector-drawing
a circle sector with its angles, radius and segment count on sliders
kaleidoscope
mouse strokes repeated around six-fold symmetry and mirrored (< and > step through the stored lines)
recursive-tree
a binary tree grown by splitting each branch in two (sliders set the angle, length, decay and depth)
ring-drawing
a ring with its radii, angles and segment count on sliders, and three draw modes to overlay
rounded-rectangle-drawing
a rounded rectangle with its corner roundness, size and outline thickness on sliders
hilbert-curve
a Hilbert curve drawn stroke by stroke, hue cycling along its length (a spinner sets the order)
math-sine-cosine
the unit circle animated, with sine, cosine, tangent and the related angles drawn against it
📝 Text (3)
writing-anim
a message types itself out (SPACE speeds up, ENTER restarts)
format-text
padded score + MM:SS timer readouts
input-box
type into a text box (click to focus, Backspace to edit)
🖼️ Textures (4)
background-scrolling
a parallax-scrolling background
sprite-animation
a spritesheet character walk cycle (LEFT/RIGHT)
srcrec-dstrec
source and destination rectangles with rotation applied
tiled-drawing
one patch of a texture atlas tiled across the window, with the pattern, tint, scale and rotation all selectable
✨ Shaders (3)
basic-lighting
dynamic per-pixel lighting (mouse moves it, Y/R/G/B toggle lights)
ascii-rendering
the scene rendered to an offscreen target, then post-processed into ASCII glyphs (arrows resize the cells)
palette-switch
eight near-black bands that a fragment shader remaps through a palette, so the colour on screen is never drawn by the program
🔊 Audio (4)
audio-module
a music-driven waveform/spectrum visualizer
sound-loading
load and play a WAV/OGG sound effect (SPACE, ENTER)
music-stream
stream an MP3 with play/pause/seek (SPACE, P, arrows)
sound-multi
fire the same sound multiple times, overlapping (SPACE)
🗿 Models (25)
geometric-shapes
3D primitive shapes on display
waving-cubes
an NxN grid of cubes rippling in 3D
box-collisions
a player cube colliding with 3D boxes (arrow keys)
orthographic-projection
perspective vs orthographic (SPACE toggles)
tesseract-view
a rotating 4D hypercube projected to 2D
solar-system
Sun/Earth/Moon orbiting via the rlgl matrix stack
spinning-cubes
a row of cubes, each spinning with a color-cycling phase offset
point-cloud
~1500 points forming a rotating sphere (UP/DOWN adjusts)
wireframe-shapes
pyramid/octahedron/torus/helix in 3D lines (SPACE cycles)
camera-modes
Free/Orbital/FPS camera modes (1/2/3 switches, WASD)
ray-picking
click to select cubes via ray-picking
bouncing-spheres
spheres bouncing inside a 3D box (SPACE, R, G)
rotating-cube
a single cube spinning via the rlgl matrix stack (arrows, +/-, R)
particle-system
a 3D particle emitter (SPACE bursts, G toggles gravity, W/R reset)
dna-helix
a rotating double-helix structure (arrows, SPACE, R)
first-person-maze
walk a 3D maze in first person (WASD + mouse, M for map)
yaw-pitch-roll
yaw/pitch/roll rotation on a 3D model (arrows, SPACE, R)
lissajous-3d
3D Lissajous parametric curves (1-5 picks a pattern, W/S, SPACE)
lorenz-attractor
the Lorenz attractor's chaotic butterfly path (1-3, arrows, SPACE, R)
terrain-generation
procedurally generated terrain (1-3 picks an algorithm, G, W, SPACE)
mesh-generation
procedurally generated 3D meshes (Left/Right cycles, click, SPACE, R)
basic-voxel
an 8x8x8 block of cubes walked in first person, with left-click removing the one under the crosshair
billboard-rendering
two alpha billboards that always face the camera, drawn far-to-near so the transparency blends correctly
cubicmap-rendering
a 3D maze built from a 32x16 PNG, one cube per non-black pixel, textured from an atlas (P pauses the orbit)
heightmap-rendering
terrain generated from a greyscale PNG, each pixel's brightness read as an elevation
