arcade's Introduction

Welcome to The Arcade Library!

Arcade is an easy-to-learn Python library for creating 2D video games. It is ideal for beginning programmers, or programmers who want to create 2D games without learning a complex framework.

Arcade is built on top of Pyglet and OpenGL.

Documentation

For full documentation see https://api.arcade.academy
For installation: https://api.arcade.academy/en/latest/install/index.html
For example code that uses the Arcade library see: https://api.arcade.academy/en/latest/examples/index.html
For API documentation see: https://api.arcade.academy/en/latest/quick_index.html
Learn Arcade AND how to program: https://learn.arcade.academy
Release notes: https://api.arcade.academy/en/latest/development/release_notes.html

Games Using Arcade

See: https://api.arcade.academy/en/latest/sample_games.html

Citation

    @Online{PythonArcade,
       author = {Paul Vincent Craven},
       title = {Easy to use Python library for creating 2D arcade games.},
       date = {2023-01-01},
       publisher = {GitHub},
       journal = {GitHub repository},
       howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/pythonarcade/arcade}},
       commit = {<insert hash if needed>}
    }