Ebiten (海老天)

v1.3.0-alpha

A simple SNES-like 2D game library in Go
Works on
- Web browsers (powered by GopherJS)
  - Supported browsers: Chrome, Firefox, Safari on desktops
- Mac OS X
- Linux
- Windows
API Docs
GitHub project page (Development version: v1.3.0-alpha)

Features

2D Graphics
Input (Mouse, Keyboard, Gamepad)

Example

Install on Mac OS X

:; go get github.com/hajimehoshi/ebiten

If you want to run your game on a web browser, execute this:

:; go get github.com/gopherjs/gopherjs
:; go get github.com/gopherjs/webgl

Install on Linux

Before installing Ebiten, you might need these libraries:

libglu1-mesa-dev
libgles2-mesa-dev
libxrandr-dev
libxcursor-dev
libxinerama-dev
libxi-dev

Ebiten is tested on Ubuntu Linux x64.

Execute the example

:; cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/hajimehoshi/ebiten/examples
:; go run rotate/main.go

Run your game on a desktop

Just execute your Go program. That's it!

Run your game on a web browser

Compile your game with GopherJS:

:; gopherjs build -o yourgame.js path/to/yourgame

Then, open the below HTML on your HTTP server:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<script src="yourgame.js"></script>

NOTE: file:// URL may not work with Ebiten. Execute your game on a HTTP server.

Apps created with Ebiten

Plasma by Peter Hellberg
go-inovation5 by Hajime Hoshi
Wired Logic by Martin Kirsche

Change Log

2016-02-17

v1.2.0-rc1 released.
- Added support for gamepads on desktops and browsers
- Added support for touch events on browsers
- Added new functions for image rendering:
  - Image.ReplacePixels
  - GeoM.Rotate
  - ColorM.RotateHue
- Added some experimental packages:
  - exp/audio: Play music and sound
  - exp/gamepad: Useful functions to configure gamepads
  - These packages are experimental and we don't guarantee backward compatibility.
- Deprecated some APIs:
  - TranslateGeo (Use GeoM's Translate instead)
  - ScaleGeo (Use GoeM's Scale instead)
  - RotateGeo (Use GoeM's Rotate instead)
  - TranslateColor (Use ColorM's Translate instead)
  - ScaleColor (Use ColorM's Scale instead)
  - RotateHue (Use ColorM's RotateHue instead)
- Fixed some bugs
- Performance optimization

2015-01-25

v1.1.0 released.
- Fixed some bugs.

2015-01-10

v1.1.0-rc1 released.
- Support for web browsers: Ebiten now includes support for web browsers with GopherJS.
- Some API has changed:
  - ImagePart is deprecated. Use ImageParts interface instead.
  - ColorM.Element and GeoM.Element's recievers changed from structs to pointers.
  - A lot of keyboard keys have been added. KeyMax and MouseButtonMax were removed.
- The game is stopped when the window is not active.

2015-01-04

v1.0.0 released.
- Nothing has changed from v1.0.0-rc1.

2014-12-29

v1.0.0-rc1 released.

License

Ebiten

Copyright 2014 Hajime Hoshi

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
limitations under the License.

Go Gopher photograph

The original photograph of Go gophers by Chris Nokleberg is licensed under the Creative Commons 3.0 Attributions license.