Excalibur's Philosophy

Why use Excalibur?

Excalibur is designed with approachability in mind. You can make some classic favorites with just a few lines of code! Excalibur will meet you where you're at, whether you're new to game development or an experienced game maker.

Excalibur has a ton of features to help you make games!

• Objected-Oriented TypeScript first API
• Actors come prebuilt everything you need
• SpriteSheet, Sprites, and Animations
• Text and Font support
• Built in Math utilities like Matrix and Vector
• Collision Detection
• Arcade Style and Realistic Physics
• 2D and Isometric TileMaps
• Tiled and Aseprite integrations
• Optionally write custom WebGL Renderers
• Optionally use Entity-Component-System style development

There are a lot of great tools out there to build games on the web, no tool is perfect, use whatever tool makes you happiest 😊

Excalibur's Design Philosophy

1. Excalibur aims to be the best 2D game development experience for the web.
2. Excalibur is flexible with sensible defaults.
3. Excalibur is a "batteries included" game engine, you can just do the things you want