Excalibur is a simple, free game engine written in TypeScript for making 2D games in HTML5 canvas. Our goal with Excalibur is to make it incredibly simple to create and write 2D HTML/JS games aimed at folks new to game development all the way up to more experienced game developers. We take care of all the boilerplate engine code, cross-platform targeting, and more so you don't have to. Use as much or as little as you need!
Excalibur is an open source project licensed under the 2-clause BSD license (this means you can use it in commercial projects!). It's free and always will be. We welcome any feedback or contributions! If you make something with Excalbur, please let us know so we can feature you in our online gallery.
.. toctree:: :maxdepth: 2 :caption: User Documentation Changelog <https://github.com/excaliburjs/Excalibur/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md> installation quickstart features
.. toctree:: :maxdepth: 1 :caption: API Documentation edge (master) <http://excaliburjs.com/docs/api/edge/index.html>
.. toctree:: :maxdepth: 1 :caption: Extensions Yeoman generator <https://github.com/excaliburjs/generator-excalibur> Tiled map editor integration <https://github.com/excaliburjs/excalibur-tiled>
Follow our :doc:`installation` guide.
Follow our :doc:`quickstart` guide.
The master branch API documentation is always available and up-to-date on our Edge documentation site.
Otherwise, see the TOC on the left to find the stable API documentation.
Ask us anything in the Excalibur.js mailing list. If you find a bug, report it on the GitHub issues page.
Compiled examples can be found in the Excalibur Samples.
Please view the Contributing guidelines. If you spot a bug, have a question, or want to contribute, please open a GitHub issue!
Excalibur is open source and operates under the 2 clause BSD license:
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