The Emberware repository includes 28+ example games organized by category. Each example is a complete, buildable project.
emberware/examples/
New to Emberware? Follow this progression:
hello-world triangle textured-quad cube paddle tutorial platformer
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hello-world Basic 2D drawing, text, input handling triangle Minimal 3D rendering textured-quad Texture loading and binding cube Rotating textured cube with transforms
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lighting PBR rendering with 4 dynamic lights blinn-phong Classic specular and rim lighting billboard GPU-instanced billboards procedural-shapes Built-in mesh generators textured-procedural Textured procedural meshes dither-demo PS1-style dithering effects material-override Per-draw material properties
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mode0-inspector Interactive Mode 0 (Unlit) explorer mode1-inspector Interactive Mode 1 (Matcap) explorer mode2-inspector Interactive Mode 2 (PBR) explorer mode3-inspector Interactive Mode 3 (Hybrid) explorer
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skinned-mesh GPU skeletal animation basics animation-demo Keyframe playback from ROM ik-demo Inverse kinematics multi-skinned-procedural Multiple animated characters multi-skinned-rom ROM-based animation data skeleton-stress-test Performance testing
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paddle Classic 2-player game with AI platformer Full mini-game with physics, UI, multiplayer
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audio-demo Sound effects, panning, channels
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datapack-demo ROM asset workflow font-demo Custom font loading level-loader Level data from ROM asset-test Pre-converted asset testing
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debug-demo Debug inspection system
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examples-common Reusable utilities (DebugCamera, math helpers)
Each example is a standalone Cargo project:
cd examples/paddle
cargo build --target wasm32-unknown-unknown --release
ember run target/wasm32-unknown-unknown/release/paddle.wasm
Or build all examples:
cargo xtask build-examples
All examples follow this pattern:
example-name/
├── Cargo.toml # Project config
├── ember.toml # Game manifest (optional)
├── src/
│ └── lib.rs # Game code
└── assets/ # Assets (if needed)
Each example includes comments explaining key concepts:
#![allow(unused)]
fn main() {
//! Example Name
//!
//! Description of what this example demonstrates.
//!
//! Controls:
//! - ...
//!
//! Note: Rollback state is automatic.
} Browse the source on GitHub or read locally in your clone.