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Useful articles and best practices

A curated list of useful Ebiten and gamedev articles.

Contents

• Internals
• Tutorials

Internals

Implementation details of the library, game loop, etc.

• tps-vs-fps - This document aims to help users of the Ebiten game engine and shed some light on the topic of ticks per second (TPS) vs frames per second (FPS), which has proven to be a common point of confusion both for newcomers and experienced devs alike.

• kage-desk - A gentle introduction to the Kage shading language.

• how-rendering-works - How Ebitengine achieves efficent rendering with its simple Image API.

Tutorials

Gamedev tutorials for Ebiten

• roguelike-tutorial - A series of articles describing how to create a roguelike game in Go, following (roughly) the steps outlined in how-to-write-a-roguelike-in-15-steps.

• golab-gamedev-with-go - A workshop on creating games on Go with Ebitengine.

• making-a-game-in-go - A series of articles describing the process of creating a point-and-click adventure game "Awakeman".

• creating-cool-games-with-ebiten-in-go - A small article that briefly describes how to create a simple interactive application in a couple of lines of code.