hajimehoshi/ebiten

A dead simple 2D game engine for Go

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Ebitengine (v2)

Go Reference Build Status

A dead simple 2D game engine for Go

Ebitengine (formerly known as Ebiten) is an open source game engine for the Go programming language. Ebitengine's simple API allows you to quickly and easily develop 2D games that can be deployed across multiple platforms.

Overview

Platforms

  • Windows
  • macOS
  • Linux
  • FreeBSD
  • Android (Cgo required)
  • iOS (Cgo required)
  • WebAssembly
  • Nintendo Switch (Cgo required)
  • Xbox (Cgo required) (Xbox support is limited and not available to everyone. Negotiations are currently underway to make it accessible to all.)

For installation on desktops, see the installation instruction.

Features

  • 2D Graphics (Geometry and color transformation by matrices, Various composition modes, Offscreen rendering, Text rendering, Automatic batches, Automatic texture atlas, Custom shaders)
  • Input (Mouse, Keyboard, Gamepads, Touches)
  • Audio (Ogg/Vorbis, MP3, WAV, PCM)

Packages

Community

License

Ebitengine is licensed under Apache license version 2.0. See LICENSE file.

The Ebitengine logo by Hajime Hoshi is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.

Ebitengine bundles third-party libraries. See THIRD_PARTY_LICENSES.md for their licenses.

ebiten
ebitengine
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game-2d
gamedev
game-development
game-engine
game-engine-2d
game-library
go
golang
golang-library

hajimehoshi/ebiten

A dead simple 2D game engine for Go

Go

13,546

11,384 commits

updated Oct 12, 2026

See the code

README

Ebitengine (v2)

Go Reference Build Status

A dead simple 2D game engine for Go

Ebitengine (formerly known as Ebiten) is an open source game engine for the Go programming language. Ebitengine's simple API allows you to quickly and easily develop 2D games that can be deployed across multiple platforms.

Overview

Platforms

  • Windows
  • macOS
  • Linux
  • FreeBSD
  • Android (Cgo required)
  • iOS (Cgo required)
  • WebAssembly
  • Nintendo Switch (Cgo required)
  • Xbox (Cgo required) (Xbox support is limited and not available to everyone. Negotiations are currently underway to make it accessible to all.)

For installation on desktops, see the installation instruction.

Features

  • 2D Graphics (Geometry and color transformation by matrices, Various composition modes, Offscreen rendering, Text rendering, Automatic batches, Automatic texture atlas, Custom shaders)
  • Input (Mouse, Keyboard, Gamepads, Touches)
  • Audio (Ogg/Vorbis, MP3, WAV, PCM)

Packages

Community

License

Ebitengine is licensed under Apache license version 2.0. See LICENSE file.

The Ebitengine logo by Hajime Hoshi is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.

Ebitengine bundles third-party libraries. See THIRD_PARTY_LICENSES.md for their licenses.

ebiten
ebitengine
game
game-2d
gamedev
game-development
game-engine
game-engine-2d
game-library
go
golang
golang-library

Project health

Overall

4.7/10

Maintained

10/10

Code review

2/10
OpenSSF Scorecard

Latest release

v1.12.13 · Sep 7, 2025

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