hajimehoshi/ebiten
Ebiten
Ebiten is a cross-platform 2D game engine and framework for the Go programming language. It provides a hardware-accelerated 2D renderer and a multi-input handling library to develop two-dimensional games with a single codebase.
The engine is designed for broad deployment, allowing applications to be compiled and run across desktops, mobile devices, web browsers, and gaming consoles. It distinguishes itself by integrating custom shader programming for specialized visual effects and providing haptic feedback control for mobile devices and gamepads.
The framework covers core game development capabilities, including 2D graphics rendering with matrix-based geometry transformations and a unified input system for keyboards, mice, and touch screens. It also includes an audio subsystem for playback and streaming of Ogg, MP3, WAV, and PCM formats, alongside utilities for image layer blending and screen capture.
Features
- 2D Game Frameworks - Provides a comprehensive framework for building hardware-accelerated 2D games using the Go language.
- Game Development Frameworks - Provides a high-performance game development framework for deploying titles across desktop, mobile, and web from a single Go codebase.
- Cross-Platform Deployment Targets - Enables a single codebase to be compiled and run across desktops, mobile devices, web browsers, and consoles.
- Unified Input Handling - Identification of specific mouse button presses to trigger targeted actions and user interactions.
- Audio Playback - Provides native support for decoding and playing back Ogg, MP3, WAV, and PCM audio formats.
- Chunked Audio Streaming - Supports continuous audio output by streaming large sound files in chunks from storage.
- 2D Rendering Engines - Features a hardware-accelerated 2D rendering engine with support for sprites, text, and automatic batching.
- Cross-Platform Abstractions - Provides a unified Go interface that abstracts hardware and system-level graphics and audio APIs across multiple platforms.
- Input Handling - Implements a unified input system for handling keyboards, mice, touch screens, and gamepads.
- Gamepad Haptics - Enables precise control of high and low frequency rumble motors on connected gamepads.
- Custom Shader Programs - Supports user-defined GLSL shader programs to implement custom rendering effects and image filtering.
- Affine Transformation Matrices - Utilizes 3x3 affine transformation matrices for scaling, rotating, and translating 2D images.
- 2D Image Transformations - Implements matrix-based operations for scaling, rotating, and translating 2D image planes.
- Batch Rendering - Implements GPU-accelerated batch rendering to optimize vertex buffers and minimize state changes during 2D rendering.
- Material and Shader Configuration - Provides systems for configuring rendering via image filtering, addressing modes, and color mapping.
- Image Blending - Includes capabilities for combining image layers using various composition modes, masking, and additive blending.
- Premultiplied-Alpha Blending - Uses premultiplied-alpha blending to ensure correct transparency and color calculations during image rendering.
- Haptic Feedback Controllers - Integrates haptic feedback by triggering vibration motors on mobile devices and game controllers.
- Game Development - Simple 2D game library.
- Game Frameworks - Simple 2D game library for Go.
- Game Development - Simple 2D game library.
- Media and Communication - 2D game engine for Go.
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