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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.

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Read the stable documentation at https://api.arcade.academy.

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@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.

paul@cravenfamily.com

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