BabylonJS
Babylon.js is a powerful, beautiful, simple, and open game and rendering engine packed into a friendly JavaScript framework. (by BabylonJS)
PixiJS
The HTML5 Creation Engine: Create beautiful digital content with the fastest, most flexible 2D WebGL renderer. (by pixijs)
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| BabylonJS | PixiJS | |
|---|---|---|
| 63 | 116 | |
| 22,488 | 42,552 | |
| 1.2% | 0.8% | |
| 10.0 | 9.9 | |
| 5 days ago | 6 days ago | |
| TypeScript | TypeScript | |
| Apache License 2.0 | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
BabylonJS
Posts with mentions or reviews of BabylonJS.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-12.
- Show HN: My wife and I made a maze game
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Release Radar • March 2024 Edition
It's been around for a while, and we've featured it in the April 2019 and March 2022 Release Radars. It's also been in GitHub Game Bytes and on our latest episode of The Download. Yes, I'm talking about Babylon, the powerful web rendering engine for all kinds of graphics. The newest update includes support for basic Global Illumination, a highly requested feature. Read more about other cool new additions including Gaussian Splatting, Ragdoll physics, Procedural Geometry and all the breaking changes in the Babylon release notes.
- Not only Unity...
- Anime.js – A lightweight JavaScript animation library
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How do I integrate Motion and Animation into my Projects?
Wow that site is super cool! So I see most of the 3D stuff is using canvas, maybe three.js or babylon.js or possibly pixi.js.
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Which tools should I use to create my game ?
Sure; I've used [Phaser](https://phaser.io/) before for a game jam like project and I've heard of [PixiJS](https://pixijs.com/) and [Babylon.js](https://www.babylonjs.com/) as options too. I can't really give a good recommendation either way; Phaser was fun to just write TypeScript and see my game, but it felt like a toy compared to Unreal. I'm sure you could really push it to its limits though. You mentioned you know about LibGDX; I don't have experience with it, but it does seem like a viable option.
- Babylon.js: Powerful, Beautiful, Simple, Open - Web-Based 3D At Its Best
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JavaScript framework for making games. no game engine
I’ve only messed around with it a bit, but https://www.babylonjs.com seems impressive
- Faster LZ is not the answer to 150-250 GB video game downloads
- Babylon.js 6.0
PixiJS
Posts with mentions or reviews of PixiJS.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-07.
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Release Radar • March 2024 Edition
If you're into video game dev, then PixiJS is something you need to know about. It's a HTML5 game engine that provides a lightweight 2D library across all devices. This latest update has a new package structure, custom builds, graphics API overhaul, and lots more. You can read about all these changes in the PixiJS Migration Guide. Also big congrats to PixiJS for being part of the open source community for ten years now! 😮.
- Ask HN: Tips to get started on my own server
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JavaScript Libraries That You Should Know
6. Pixi.js
- JSON Canvas – An open file format for infinite canvas data
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A Visual Interactive Guide to Bloom Filters
https://pixijs.com/ and https://gsap.com/. All of the source code for my posts can be found at https://github.com/samwho/visualisations :)
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My thought on different engines
For full web games (yeah, I come from the web, so I try to make my family proud), I will recommend PixiJS. It has great support for TypeScript and works very well with Vite. It's lighter than other game engines, so it's better for web games. But you will need to do a lot of things by yourself.
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Not only Unity...
PixiJS (MIT/TypeScript) https://github.com/pixijs/pixijs
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Rebuilding Isometric World
That approach works well for what I was trying to archive but I am planning on adding more functionality into the website. Hence in this article, let me rebuild the project using Pixi.js and it’s React binding, React Pixi.
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Ask HN: Possible to make a game engine in the browser?
https://openarena.live/
There's also a bunch of Javascript game engines: https://github.com/collections/javascript-game-engines
Of those, BabylonJS seems pretty powerful for 3D: https://www.babylonjs.com/games/
Or PixiJS for 2D: https://pixijs.com/
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Consider web technologies for game development
https://pixijs.com/ is more of a 2D rendering framework, but powerful and very fast
What are some alternatives?
When comparing BabylonJS and PixiJS you can also consider the following projects:
three.js - JavaScript 3D Library.
Konva - Konva.js is an HTML5 Canvas JavaScript framework that extends the 2d context by enabling canvas interactivity for desktop and mobile applications.
react-three-fiber - 🇨🇠A React renderer for Three.js
Phaser - Phaser is a fun, free and fast 2D game framework for making HTML5 games for desktop and mobile web browsers, supporting Canvas and WebGL rendering. [Moved to: https://github.com/phaserjs/phaser]
react-canvas - High performance <canvas> rendering for React components
p5.js - p5.js is a client-side JS platform that empowers artists, designers, students, and anyone to learn to code and express themselves creatively on the web. It is based on the core principles of Processing. http://twitter.com/p5xjs —
A-Frame - :a: Web framework for building virtual reality experiences.
model-viewer - Easily display interactive 3D models on the web and in AR!
Leaflet.PixiOverlay - Bring Pixi.js power to Leaflet maps
cocos2d-html5 - Cocos2d for Web Browsers. Built using JavaScript.