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title: EBURP
category: article
slug: eburp
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**EBURP** (*Eight-Bit Universal Role Playing*) is the engine Larva Labs wrote
for [Gurk III](/gurk-iii). It was released about 3 months after the game
launched.

The last update was published on June 17th, 2014.

It's unknown if any games have ever been published that use it.

## Technical Specifications

The engine is written in CoffeeScript, which compiles to JavaScript, so a game built on it runs in a web browser.

The build tools are made in Java, so a JDK is needed to build from source.

## The demo game

Bundled with the engine is a demo built from content similar to Gurk III.

It includes: 
- **10 party members**
- **64 creatures**
- **113 items**
- **85 spells**
- **16 explorable maps** 
- **12 combat backdrops**
- **8 quests**

The demo is playable at
[pents90.github.io/eburp](https://pents90.github.io/eburp/).


## License

The README states you may use anything contained within the library, aside from the Gurk name.

> *"Please don't call your game 'Gurk', that's our little brand! Also, you can
> use anything that is in this open-source project, but please don't pirate any
> graphics or music from the Gurk series that is not included here."*

## External articles

- [pents90/eburp](https://github.com/pents90/eburp) — the engine and demo game on GitHub
- [E.B.U.R.P.](https://pents90.github.io/eburp/) — the demo game, playable in a browser
- [EBURP](https://gurk.fandom.com/wiki/EBURP) — Gurk, the 8-bit RPG Wiki