Open Source Go Games

Ebitengine (formerly known as Ebiten) is a lightweight, open-source 2D game engine built for the Go programming language. It is designed to be simple and easy to use, allowing developers to build games quickly with a clean and minimal API. Ebitengine supports cross-platform deployment, including desktop, mobile, web, and select console platforms. The engine provides essential features such as 2D graphics rendering, input handling, and audio playback. Developers can work with transformations, shaders, and offscreen rendering to create polished visuals. Built-in support for keyboards, mice, gamepads, and touch input ensures flexible control schemes. Overall, Ebitengine focuses on productivity and portability while maintaining strong performance.

This project is a tutorial-style codebase demonstrating how to build a multiplayer online game (in the style of Bomberman) using Apache Pulsar as the real-time event stream backbone. With Go as the implementation language and the Ebitengine 2D game framework, the system handles rooms, player movement, bomb placement/pushing, destructible and indestructible blocks, scoring, and even replay recording. Central to the architecture is the use of Pulsar topics to propagate player events, score updates, map changes and to synchronize game state across clients. The project serves as a deep dive into real‐time multiplayer architecture, demonstrating how to manage latency, consistency, event ordering and room isolation. It’s more than a toy: it teaches how to apply message streaming, event-based functions, and stateful services in gaming contexts.

Sankofa is an application for the analysis of Oware (Abapa rule set) games. The goal is to enable players to recognize and to learn from their mistakes and to try alternative strategies. Run sankofa to show the interface on a local Web server at: http://localhost:10000* . Run retrograde to build a small end-game database. Sankofa is an analysis tool and not an automated opponent. It allows you to play both sides and shows the evaluation of possible moves, the game history and more. Please see Sankofa.md and LICENSE.TXT in the source code bundle for more details.