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AP2 (Application Primitives) is a C17 kit for games and tools.

Copyright (c) 2024-2026 Jack Waechter. MIT licensed. See LICENSE.

Draw with the short names (AP_Clear, AP_FillRect, AP_Present, AP_DrawTexture). They are macros over AP_Render*.

Guides

• Getting started — install, build, first window
• Architecture — subsystems, modules, coordinate spaces
• API overview — map of every public header

Tutorials

Subjects

1. Hello window
2. Drawing in 2D
3. Textures and sprites
4. Input
5. Audio
6. Text and fonts
7. Immediate GUI
8. 3D
9. Shaders and post-processing
10. Tilemaps

Apps and games

10. Breakout — bricks, paddle, collision, score
11. Top-down walker — WASD/gamepad, camera, spatial SFX
12. Desktop tool — inspector-style GUI app

Headers under include/AP2/ win if a tutorial and a signature disagree.

The GitHub Pages site and the wiki are published from this folder on each push.