Ebitengine in 2024

Hajime Hoshi
2024-12-08

It's been 11 years since I started developing Ebitengine. This article is a retrospective of Ebitengine in 2024.

The copyrights of all screenshots and other images belong to the creators of the respective applications.

Sponsors

Between December 2023 and November 2024, the following individuals supported me as sponsors (GitHub Sponsors, Patreon, thanks.dev). I deeply appreciate their support.

(Listed in descending order of total sponsorship amount in USD)

Contributors

Between December 2023 and November 2024, the following individuals contributed to the project. I sincerely appreciate their efforts.

(Listed in order of the number of commits)

Ebitengine

Purego, Oto

Events

December 2023

March

April

• Ebitengine v2.7.0 was released. Key features include the text/v2 package.
• The Ebitengine-powered game "Meg and the Monster" was selected as one of "The 10 Best Nintendo Switch Indie Games of All-Time – SwitchArcade Special."

June

July

• At the indie game event "BitSummit 2024" held in Kyoto, "Dream Channel Zero", "Mousebusters", and "SAEKO: Giantess Dating Sim" were exhibited.

August

September

• Ebitengine v2.8.0 was released. Key features include 32-bit floating-point audio streams.

November

Console Games

Inside the Crystal Mountain

Games from Ebitengine Game Jam

The Ebitengine Game Jam 2024 was held in June. Here, we highlight the top 4 games from the final results. For other games, please refer to the jam entries.

Other Games

Here are some Ebitengine-powered games released this year, including those featured on platforms like Steam. A big thank you to all creators of Ebitengine games!

For more games, please check out the Made with Ebitengine list on itch.io or Awesome Ebitengine.

Tools and Libraries

• bamenn (Author: noppikinatta)
• bitfontier (Author: quasilyte)
• debugui (Author: Hajime Hoshi)
• Kageland.com (Author: Tom Lister)
• Kagery (Author: Zyko0)
• Kamera (Author: Barış)
• necs (Author: Leapfish)
• resolv (Author: SolarLune)
• wasmgame (Author: eihigh)

Articles

English

• 036: Game UI in Go with EbitenUI maintainer Mark Carpenter (Author: go podcast())
• Getting Started With Ebitengine the Go Game Engine (Author: introtogamedev.com)
• Hello, World! - A technical overview of the software powering bgammon.org (Author: Trevor Slocum)
• I Built a 2D Game in 40 Minutes with Ebiten (Author: Sam A)
• Rune Synergy Devblog 8 (Author: Dane)
• Snake game in Go using Ebiten (Author: Alex Pliutau)
• “Ultima V Redux” Pivots to the Go-Based Ebiten Engine (Author: WtF Dragon)
• Using Brotli to deliver smaller WASM files (Author: Maurits van der Schee)

Non-English

• Androidアプリにミニゲームを組み込む！Goでミニゲーム開発　Ebitengine (Author: maripiyo)
• Ebitengine Game Jam 2024 にトライした (Author: pankona)
• 【Ebitengine】OXゲーム作ってみた【環境構築~遊ぶまで】 (Author: 泥団子職人)
• Ebitengineでビルドにアセットを埋め込む (Author: kyp)
• Ebitengineのシーンマネージャーを作ってみた (Author: krile136)
• Go言語とEbitengineによる ゼロから始めるゲームプログラミング (Author: eihigh)
• Go製の2Dゲームエンジン「Ebitengine」でレイマーチングしてみる (Author: catGPT)
• Goでマルチプレイのゲームを作る(powered by Ebitengine) (Author: ponyo877)
• Goのコルーチンを活用して弾幕を記述してみた【ゲーム開発】 (Author: eihigh)
• Live2D Cubism SDKの非公式Golang版を作った (Author: Chan Aethiopicus)
• NewImageを頻繁に呼んではいけない(戒め) | Ebitengine (Author: BioErrorLog)
• Игривый гофер — Episode 463 (Author: DevZen Podcast)
• オリジナルSRPG "Kill the Kaiser" 体験版公開！ (Author: トロコニーデ)
• 開発日記 2024-05-07 (Author: kyp)
• クイズゲームを作成中 (Author: tsurime)
• ゲーム制作ブログ始めました！｜らんだむあくしょん！制作記録１ (Author: 長井長縄)
• スイカゲームの作り方 (Author: demouth)
• 制作進捗 - もぐらんか？#8 (Author: スペリオン)
• ブラウザ上でEbitengineを使ってwebカメラから取得した映像を描画してみた (Author: hamao)

Interviews

• ［インタビュー］「自分で作る，挑戦する」を忘れない。Odencat代表のDaigo氏に聞いた，2つの新作の開発を進めるうえで大事にしていること (4Gamer.net)
• 趣味でつくった2Dゲームエンジンが導いた「幸」あるキャリア。己の欲求に従い続けてきた「Ebitengine」開発者に迫る (レバテック LAB)
• 徹底的に“自分の好みを追求”したシュールRPG『Dream Channel Zero』開発者Fuming氏にインタビュー。無料デモ版もSteamで配信予定【BitSummit Drift】 (Game*Spark)

Videos

English

Non-English

New Trailers

Coral & The Abyss

• Website
• Steam
• Publisher: Intrugli Games

Day Trader Tycoon

• Steam
• Publisher: DayTrade Games

Meg's Monster (Lost Memories)

• Website
• Publisher: Odencat

Mousebusters (Complete Edition)

• Website
• Steam
• Publisher: Odencat

NebuLeet

• Steam
• Developer: quasilyte
• Publisher: quasilyte tech

SAEKO: Giantess Dating Sim

• Website
• Steam
• Developer: SAFE HAVN STUDIO
• Publisher: HYPRE REAL

Snowman Story (Nintendo Switch Version)

• Website
• Publisher: Odencat

Ebitengine Beyond 2025

This year marks the 11th anniversary of Ebitengine. With over 10,000 GitHub stars, 2,000 members in the Discord server, and six games released on consoles, the Ebitengine community has become quite vibrant. I am truly grateful for this growth.

On the other hand, the number of commits over the past year was 800, a slight decrease compared to 1,028 from the previous year. This is partly because I, Hajime Hoshi, have been quite busy, but also because I feel that Ebitengine itself has reached a level of maturity. While I’ve been saying for a while that I’d like to improve GUI-related libraries, I haven’t been able to release anything yet. Next year, I aim to focus on enhancing surrounding libraries.

Compiling this year’s summary article took a significant amount of time due to the overwhelming number of creations and articles produced. While this is a wonderful challenge to have, I’m not sure if I can continue in the same format next year.

Wishing everyone a Happy New Year!