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.
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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>}
}