Ebiten Game Development: First Steps

    Ebiten Game Development Series: Part 1: First Steps | Part 2: Core Concepts → What is Ebiten? Ebiten is a dead-simple 2D game engine for Go. Unlike heavyweight engines with complex editors and asset pipelines, Ebiten gives you a minimalist foundation: a game loop, a way to draw pixels, and input handling. Everything else? You build it yourself. This simplicity is Ebiten’s superpower. You’re not fighting an editor or memorizing a sprawling API. You write Go code that runs 60 times per second and draws rectangles. From those humble beginnings, you can build anything from Pong to procedurally generated roguelikes. ...

    December 15, 2024 · 12 min · Rafiul Alam