Why use Excalibur

Excalibur is designed to be approachable and powerful, whether you're new to game making or an experienced developer.

Summary of features

• 🎥 Friendly API based around a theater metaphor of Scenes, Actors, and Actions
• 📦 Object-Oriented and TypeScript-first for built-in guidance for how to use the engine
• 🏃SpriteSheets, Sprites, and Animations
• 💥 Collisions with Arcade and Realistic Physics
• 🧩 2D TileMaps and Isometric TileMaps
• 🎨 Custom shaders, post-processing support, and render plugins
• 🖼️ Optimized performance, including auto-batched draw calls
• 🎁 An Entity-Component-System is waiting backstage for when you need additional customization

Additional tool support

We've implemented integration plugins for a number of popular game development tools.

• Tiled level editor
• LDtk level editor
• Sprite Fusion level editor
• Aseprite sprite editor
• jsfxr audio

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