Chess

3D Chess in Zig using SDL3 + OpenGL

Work-in-progress chess program.

Current To-Do:

• Check and resolving check
• Pawn promotion
• FEN loading
• Subtle movement animations for the pieces
• En passant

Installing

Should work fine on Linux as long as you have SDL3 and OpenGL installed.

• NixOS

  • nix develop
  • zig build run

• Windows

  • Download SDL3-devel (e.g. from https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/releases) and unpack it
  • Create lib folder
  • Copy the SDL3's include folder, libSDL3.dll.a, and SDL3.dll into the lib folder of this project
  • zig build run

Meshes taken from OpenGameArt