A long-lived project that still receives updates
2D game development library. Gosu provides simple and game-friendly interfaces to 2D graphics and text (accelerated by 3D hardware), sound samples and music as well as keyboard, mouse and gamepad/joystick input.
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Welcome to Gosu!

Gosu is a 2D game development library for Ruby and C++.

The main website is www.libgosu.org. The source code, wiki, issue tracker and change log are all hosted on GitHub.

Gosu is released under the MIT license.

Getting Started

The best entry point into Gosu's documentation is the wiki home page. Try doing the tutorials there if you don't know how to get started, or look at existing projects in the Gosu Showcase.

Community

  • There is a lively Discord community.
  • If you want to discuss or announce something in a more permanent place than a chat room, we also have a message board.
  • Please file bugs and feature requests on GitHub.