Welcome to The Arcade Library

Arcade is an easy-to-learn Python library for creating 2D video games. It is ideal for beginning programmers or programmers who want to create 2D games without learning a complex framework.

Arcade is built on top of pyglet and OpenGL. See Games Made with Arcade for example game jam entries and more.

Stable Documentation

Read the stable documentation at https://api.arcade.academy.

Development Previews

Preview the next release at https://api.arcade.academy/en/development/.

Citation

@Online{PythonArcade,
    author = {Paul Vincent Craven},
    title = {Easy to use Python library for creating 2D Arcade games.},
    date = {2025-01-01},
    publisher = {GitHub},
    journal = {GitHub repository},
    howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/pythonarcade/arcade}},
    commit = {<insert hash if needed>}
}

Contact the Maintainers

The best way to contact and chat with the maintainers is on the Arcade Discord Server.

paul@cravenfamily.com