korge

Info about the project:

KorGE is a modern multiplatform game engine for Kotlin. Features include:

• Hot Reloading
  • KorGE supports HotReloading to see changes immediately without having to restart the application
• KProject support
  • Share & re-use source code and resources via GitHub
• Debugger
  • Live-debug your games
• 100% Kotlin
  • KorGE is fully written in Kotlin and designed from the ground up to embrace modern and easy coding styles
• Multiplatform
  • KorGE gradle plugin allows to target the following platforms: JVM for Android, JS & WASM for the Web, native code for iOS, and JVM/JS for Desktop
• Quick installation
  • Install KorGE Forge or clone the “Hello World!” project and start making your own game in less than a minute
• Fully productive
  • Since KorGE targets the JVM, you can develop your game, try it, debug it and test it using IntelliJ IDEA
• Tons of features
  • KorGE is just the last layer of a larger stack (Korlibs) for multimedia development
• Small footprint
  • KorGE has a very small footprint. It has no external dependencies and only uses the libraries available on each platform

For more information, visit:

• https://korge.org/
• https://docs.korge.org/
• https://discord.korge.org/

News:

08-Sep-2026:

Korge was updated to Gradle 9 and Android Gradle Plugin 9. This brings changes in the application setup. For a starting point take a look at the korge-sandbox module in this repo or check the korlibs/korge-hello-world repo on GitHub.

02-May-2026:

We are moving Korge to a new namespace on maven central, from com.soywiz.korge to org.korge. This a breaking change. You will need to change your dependencies to use the new namespace in the configuration of your project. Change your gradle/libs.versions.toml to:

[plugins]
#korge = { id = "com.soywiz.korge", version = "6.0.0" }   <-- Old namespace, latest official version
korge = { id = "org.korge.engine", version = "7.0.0-SNAPSHOT" }   # <-- New namespace, use latest snapshot version

Usage:

• The latest official release on Maven Central is 6.0.0
• The current snapshot release on Maven Central is 7.0.0-SNAPSHOT

Publish to Maven Local

For checking out local changes in Korge and test them in your own applications you can publish Korge to maven local:

./gradlew publishToMavenLocal

If you want to make changes and easily try things out without releasing locally, you can check the korge-sandbox module that runs shared/src/commonMain/kotlin/org/korge/application/Main.kt file. Make your experiments there:

./gradlew :korge-sandbox:runJvm
./gradlew :korge-sandbox:runJs
./gradlew :korge-sandbox:runAndroidRelease
./gradlew :korge-sandbox:runIosDeviceRelease

KorGE Store

[Deprecated] Korge Store will be discontinued in Korge release 7. Source code additions to Korge can be added as Gradle submodule in the context of Kotlin Multiplatform.

Traditionally all the KorGE modules were published to central and their source code was available here, now they are available via kproject in separate repositories. You can find a catalog of all the published extensions here:

https://store.korge.org/