hajimehoshi/ebiten

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Ebitengine (formerly Ebiten) is an open-source 2D game engine for Go with a simple image-based drawing API. It supports desktop, mobile, web (WebAssembly), and console targets with GPU-accelerated batched rendering, input handling, and audio playback.

Use cases

• build a 2d game in go
• deploy a go game to webassembly
• make a mobile game with golang
• 2d game engine with simple api
• render sprites and text in go
• play ogg mp3 wav audio in a go game
• handle keyboard mouse and gamepad input in go

When to choose

• you want to write 2D games in pure Go with a minimal API
• you need one codebase targeting desktop, mobile, and web
• you want GPU-accelerated rendering with automatic batching and texture atlases
• you prefer a production-proven engine used in shipped commercial games

When to avoid

• you need 3D rendering or a full editor-driven engine like Unity or Godot
• you need a large asset pipeline, physics engine, or built-in editor
• you require platforms beyond those officially supported (e.g., consoles other than Switch/Xbox)

Facets

framework · maturity stable

game-engine graphics audio-processing image-processing cross-platform go windows wasm browser cross-platform 2d-graphics gamedev shaders gamepads texture-atlas nintendo-switch game-development macos linux android ios

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