arcade
Easy to use Python library for creating 2D arcade games.
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Keywords
arcade-api
arcade-framework
arcade-learning-environment
educational-resources
educational-technology
opengl
python
python3
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Easy to use Python library for creating 2D arcade games.
Basic Info
- Host: GitHub
- Owner: pythonarcade
- License: other
- Language: Python
- Default Branch: development
- Homepage: http://arcade.academy
- Size: 177 MB
Statistics
- Stars: 1,857
- Watchers: 57
- Forks: 354
- Open Issues: 100
- Releases: 29
Topics
arcade-api
arcade-framework
arcade-learning-environment
educational-resources
educational-technology
opengl
python
python3
Created about 10 years ago
· Last pushed 6 months ago
Metadata Files
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Changelog
Contributing
License
Code of conduct
README.md
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. See Games Made with Arcade for example game jam entries and more.
Stable Documentation
Read the stable documentation at https://api.arcade.academy.
Development Previews
Preview the next release at https://api.arcade.academy/en/development/.
Citation
@Online{PythonArcade,
author = {Paul Vincent Craven},
title = {Easy to use Python library for creating 2D Arcade games.},
date = {2025-01-01},
publisher = {GitHub},
journal = {GitHub repository},
howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/pythonarcade/arcade}},
commit = {<insert hash if needed>}
}
Contact the Maintainers
The best way to contact and chat with the maintainers is on the Arcade Discord Server.
Owner
- Name: Arcade Academy
- Login: pythonarcade
- Kind: organization
- Website: http://arcade.academy
- Twitter: ArcadeLibrary
- Repositories: 6
- Profile: https://github.com/pythonarcade
2D Game Library for the Python Programming Language
GitHub Events
Total
- Create event: 182
- Release event: 14
- Issues event: 163
- Watch event: 158
- Delete event: 164
- Issue comment event: 392
- Push event: 508
- Pull request review comment event: 90
- Pull request review event: 98
- Pull request event: 454
- Fork event: 37
Last Year
- Create event: 182
- Release event: 14
- Issues event: 163
- Watch event: 158
- Delete event: 164
- Issue comment event: 392
- Push event: 508
- Pull request review comment event: 90
- Pull request review event: 98
- Pull request event: 454
- Fork event: 37
Committers
Last synced: 6 months ago
Top Committers
| Name | Commits | |
|---|---|---|
| Paul Vincent Craven | p****l@c****m | 2,519 |
| Einar Forselv | e****v@g****m | 1,379 |
| Maic Siemering | m****c@s****h | 331 |
| Paul | 3****o@u****m | 263 |
| Darren Eberly | d****y@g****m | 214 |
| Paul Vincent Craven | p****n@s****u | 94 |
| Paul Everitt | p****t@m****m | 68 |
| A. J. Andrews | 8****n@u****m | 51 |
| unknown | c****n@C****c | 44 |
| bump_version | b****n@v****m | 44 |
| DigiDuncan | d****n@g****m | 35 |
| SirGnip | S****p@u****m | 34 |
| Andrew Bradley | c****e@g****m | 31 |
| Alejandro Casanovas | j****s@u****m | 30 |
| Mohammad Ibrahim | 7****i@u****m | 27 |
| MREUTER-HP\Michael | m****r@g****m | 26 |
| Daniel | d****7@g****m | 19 |
| Paul V Craven | p****n@o****m | 15 |
| Chad Purdy | c****y@g****m | 14 |
| DragonMoffon | h****a@g****m | 14 |
| Christoph Deil | D****h@g****m | 12 |
| Maic Siemering | m****c@v****m | 11 |
| Darren Eberly | d****n@e****y | 10 |
| Grant Hur | f****m@g****m | 10 |
| KommentatorForAll | 4****l@u****m | 10 |
| Ryan Policheri | r****i@m****u | 10 |
| FriendlyGecko | 6****o@u****m | 9 |
| Mr. Gallo | d****o@y****a | 9 |
| Sion Schori | s****s@g****m | 9 |
| unknown | p****n@c****c | 9 |
| and 166 more... | ||
Committer Domains (Top 20 + Academic)
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google.com: 1
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version.com: 1
cvr1834.sc.loc: 1
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physik.uni-bonn.de: 1
inf.ethz.ch: 1
student.cccs.edu: 1
Issues and Pull Requests
Last synced: 6 months ago
All Time
- Total issues: 431
- Total pull requests: 885
- Average time to close issues: 6 months
- Average time to close pull requests: 11 days
- Total issue authors: 121
- Total pull request authors: 68
- Average comments per issue: 3.38
- Average comments per pull request: 0.69
- Merged pull requests: 750
- Bot issues: 0
- Bot pull requests: 0
Past Year
- Issues: 105
- Pull requests: 447
- Average time to close issues: 19 days
- Average time to close pull requests: 3 days
- Issue authors: 29
- Pull request authors: 38
- Average comments per issue: 1.91
- Average comments per pull request: 0.45
- Merged pull requests: 385
- Bot issues: 0
- Bot pull requests: 0
Top Authors
Issue Authors
- pushfoo (70)
- einarf (63)
- pvcraven (38)
- eruvanos (28)
- cspotcode (19)
- bunny-therapist (17)
- DragonMoffon (17)
- cdeil (10)
- Cleptomania (8)
- gran4 (8)
- DigiDuncan (5)
- eschan145 (4)
- alejcas (4)
- AnonymousCoward128746 (3)
- sjrd (3)
Pull Request Authors
- einarf (292)
- pushfoo (258)
- eruvanos (188)
- DragonMoffon (100)
- DigiDuncan (59)
- pvcraven (55)
- Cleptomania (34)
- cspotcode (27)
- cdeil (26)
- gran4 (22)
- csd4ni3l (17)
- sabadam32 (14)
- ryyst (9)
- MiCurry (8)
- lbcai (8)
Top Labels
Issue Labels
enhancement (64)
documentation (63)
bug (47)
gui (40)
fix waiting for release (32)
good first issue (11)
collision (10)
tests (7)
performance (6)
Pycon APAC 2025 Sprints (6)
help wanted (3)
typing (3)
duplicate (3)
buildtools (3)
question (3)
can't replicate (2)
examples (2)
wontfix (1)
Pull Request Labels
gui (12)
enhancement (5)
documentation (4)
bug (1)
Packages
- Total packages: 1
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Total downloads:
- pypi 37,317 last-month
- Total docker downloads: 10
- Total dependent packages: 23
- Total dependent repositories: 311
- Total versions: 239
- Total maintainers: 2
pypi.org: arcade
Arcade Game Development Library
- Homepage: https://api.arcade.academy
- Documentation: https://api.arcade.academy/
- License: License ======= Copyright (c) 2025 Paul Vincent Craven The Arcade library is licensed under the `MIT License`_. Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. .. _MIT License: https://tldrlegal.com/license/mit-license
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Latest release: 3.3.2
published 8 months ago
Rankings
Dependent packages count: 0.6%
Dependent repos count: 0.8%
Stargazers count: 1.7%
Average: 2.2%
Downloads: 2.7%
Forks count: 3.0%
Docker downloads count: 4.3%
Maintainers (2)
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