Solana Gaming Resources

A curated list of resources to start building games on Solana.

Development

Game engine SDKs & libraries

• Solana SDK for Unity
  • Documentation
  • Tutorials
  • Bite-size videos
  • Community/technical support
• Solana SDK for UE by Star Atlas
  • Documentation
  • Tutorial
• Solana SDK for UE by Bifrost Technologies
  • Example
• Godot SDK
  • Demo
• Flutter
  • Dart library for Solana
  • Community/technical support
• Next.js/React + Anchor
• Phaser

Solana Cookbook & playground

• Solana Cookbook - list of Solana resources
• Playground Tutorials - smart contracts development from the browser

Open-source game examples

Fully on-chain games

• Seven Seas - Multiplayer real-time PvP pirate ship game (Unity + Anchor)
• Kamikaze Joe - Multiplayer real-time PvP arena (Unity + Anchor)
• Tiny adventure - "Hello world" adventure game (next js client & wallet adapter)
  • Playground
  • Video walkthrough
• On-chain chess (Anchor + Unity) - Fully on-chain chess, playable from different clients

Other examples

• Other on-chain games examples
  • Energy system & Gum Session keys
    • Energy system video walkthrough
    • Session Keys video walkthrough
  • Idle game using clockwork threads
    • Video Walkthrough
  • Saving Sol in a game for rewards
    • Video walkthrough

Miscellaneous

Articles/tweets

• Web3 gaming tools by Helius
• Solana game dev resources by SolPlay_jonas

Programs

• SOAR - Solana On-chain Achievements & Rankings
• Bread Heads Gaming Library - Programs built to provide simple primitives for on-chain games.

Art

• Scenario.gg - AI-generated 2d game assets
• Leonardo.ai - AI-generated 2d game assets
• Kaedim3D - AI-generated 3d models

Audio

• Audacity - Free, open source, cross-platform audio software
• Tonnoform - Easy-to-use open-source 8-bit music-making tool
• sfxr - game sound effects generator
• zzfx - another game sound effects generator

Tools

• Datawisp - on-chain and off-chain no-code analytics
• Sec3 - real-time, on-chain monitoring