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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 or Discord server 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 social media (BlueSky, Mastodon, Threads, Twitter), sign up for the newsletter, 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 Excalibur Public

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

    TypeScript 2.2k 211

  2. sample-platformer sample-platformer Public

    Sample Platformer built in Excalibur

    TypeScript 16 7

  3. template-ts-webpack template-ts-webpack Public template

    Excalibur TypeScript & Webpack template

    HTML 55 23

  4. excalibur-tiled excalibur-tiled Public

    Adds Tiled Map Editor File support to Excalibur

    TypeScript 54 27

  5. template-ts-vite template-ts-vite Public template

    Excalibur Template with TypeScript for Vite

    TypeScript 39 10

  6. excalibur-aseprite excalibur-aseprite Public

    Aseprite plugin for Excalibur

    TypeScript 4 9

Repositories

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  • Excalibur Public

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

    excaliburjs/Excalibur’s past year of commit activity
    TypeScript 2,152 BSD-2-Clause 211 78 7 Updated Nov 30, 2025
  • excaliburjs/sample-breakout’s past year of commit activity
    TypeScript 4 BSD-2-Clause 5 1 15 Updated Nov 30, 2025
  • excalibur-extension Public

    Excalibur Dev Tools Browser Extension

    excaliburjs/excalibur-extension’s past year of commit activity
    TypeScript 7 BSD-2-Clause 4 3 2 Updated Nov 30, 2025
  • excaliburjs/sample-aseprite-webpack’s past year of commit activity
    HTML 0 BSD-2-Clause 0 1 14 Updated Nov 27, 2025
  • excalibur-ldtk Public

    Excalibur LDTK plugin

    excaliburjs/excalibur-ldtk’s past year of commit activity
    TypeScript 4 BSD-2-Clause 4 1 3 Updated Nov 27, 2025
  • template-electron Public template

    Excalibur Electron template

    excaliburjs/template-electron’s past year of commit activity
    JavaScript 18 4 1 12 Updated Nov 27, 2025
  • excalibur-spritefusion Public

    Excalibur SpriteFusion Plugin

    excaliburjs/excalibur-spritefusion’s past year of commit activity
    TypeScript 4 BSD-2-Clause 0 0 3 Updated Nov 26, 2025
  • template-nwjs Public

    NW.js Template

    excaliburjs/template-nwjs’s past year of commit activity
    TypeScript 0 BSD-2-Clause 0 1 13 Updated Nov 26, 2025
  • excalibur-aseprite Public

    Aseprite plugin for Excalibur

    excaliburjs/excalibur-aseprite’s past year of commit activity
    TypeScript 4 BSD-2-Clause 9 3 19 Updated Nov 26, 2025
  • template-ts-webpack Public template

    Excalibur TypeScript & Webpack template

    excaliburjs/template-ts-webpack’s past year of commit activity
    HTML 55 23 2 11 Updated Nov 26, 2025