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Excalibur.js

TypeScript Web-based Game Engine

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Hello!

Excalibur is a 2D game engine, built for the web. We want to make it easier for you to create HTML/JS games, whether you're new to game development or you're an experienced game developer.

Get started

Check out our Getting Started guide if you want to build a game.

If you're interested in a bit more reading, you can explore our user documentation.

Community

Visit our discussions page to share what you're working on, ask questions, or chat with other folks who are building games with Excalibur!

More information

Curious about what plans we have for Excalibur? View the 1.0 Release Roadmap to see what's coming next.

You can also follow us on Twitter, check out our announcements, or read the blog.

Repositories overview

  • Main repo: the Excalibur game engine repo
  • Samples: sample games built with Excalibur
  • Templates: game templates for various build and bundling tools
  • Plugins: add-ons for third-party integrations, testing, and more

Questions

If you have any questions, ask them on our discussions page. We're happy to help!

Contributing

If you'd like to contribute to any of our projects, read through our Code of Conduct first.

Our Contributing Guidelines provide an overview of the contributing process.

Go make games!

We're excited that you're interested in game development!

Feel free to share what you're building with Excalibur on our show-and-tell page.

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  1. Excalibur Public

    🎮 Your friendly TypeScript 2D game engine for the web 🗡️

    TypeScript 1.9k 195

  2. sample-platformer Public

    Sample Platformer built in Excalibur

    TypeScript 14 7

  3. template-ts-webpack Public template

    Excalibur TypeScript & Webpack template

    HTML 56 24

  4. excalibur-tiled Public

    Adds Tiled Map Editor File support to Excalibur

    TypeScript 51 24

  5. template-ts-vite Public template

    Excalibur Template with TypeScript for Vite

    TypeScript 38 9

  6. excalibur-aseprite Public

    Aseprite plugin for Excalibur

    TypeScript 3 9

Repositories

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  • Excalibur Public

    🎮 Your friendly TypeScript 2D game engine for the web 🗡️

    TypeScript 1,922 BSD-2-Clause 195 75 13 Updated Mar 6, 2025
  • template-ts-webpack Public template

    Excalibur TypeScript & Webpack template

    HTML 56 24 2 8 Updated Mar 5, 2025
  • excalibur-ldtk Public

    Excalibur LDTK plugin

    TypeScript 2 BSD-2-Clause 3 0 2 Updated Mar 5, 2025
  • HTML 0 BSD-2-Clause 0 1 9 Updated Mar 5, 2025
  • template-electron Public template

    Excalibur Electron template

    JavaScript 15 4 1 8 Updated Mar 4, 2025
  • template-nwjs Public

    NW.js Template

    TypeScript 0 BSD-2-Clause 0 1 5 Updated Mar 4, 2025
  • excalibur-bunnymark Public

    Excalibur Bunnymark Benchmark Implementation

    TypeScript 0 BSD-2-Clause 0 1 7 Updated Mar 4, 2025
  • template-ts-vite Public template

    Excalibur Template with TypeScript for Vite

    TypeScript 38 BSD-2-Clause 9 1 3 Updated Mar 4, 2025
  • excalibur-tiled Public

    Adds Tiled Map Editor File support to Excalibur

    TypeScript 51 BSD-2-Clause 24 2 12 Updated Mar 4, 2025
  • template-ts-rollup Public template

    Excalibur TypeScript & Rollup template

    HTML 0 0 1 4 Updated Mar 3, 2025