Excalibur
🎮 Your friendly TypeScript 2D game engine for the web 🗡️ (by excaliburjs)
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] (by photonstorm)
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| Excalibur | Phaser | |
|---|---|---|
| 5 | 182 | |
| 1,589 | 35,792 | |
| 2.0% | - | |
| 9.6 | 9.6 | |
| 3 days ago | 4 months ago | |
| TypeScript | JavaScript | |
| BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License | 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.
Excalibur
Posts with mentions or reviews of Excalibur.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-10.
- [AskJS] any recommended frameworks for making 2d games in browser?
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My first week of focused prototyping: A link round-up
Excalibur.js - A game engine for the web written in TypeScript. It’s my current choice for prototyping because the docs are clearly written and the TypeScript tells you the rest. https://excaliburjs.com/
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What are developers these days using for creating browser games?
I'm a web dev by profession working on large scale web apps. I absolutely hate Phaser. It feels like going a decade back in time. Excalibur is newer to the market though and I've played around with it and really enjoyed it. Written with TypeScript and they're working on implementing an ECS system. https://excaliburjs.com/
- I need a REALLY lightweight engine
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Anyone successfully combined PixiJs and an ECS library before?
Another option is Excalibur, a game engine being built in TypeScript. Looks great and their docs are easy to follow. I tried it out to make a simple game, and was able to produce something in a couple hours. I saw a few PRs get merged a while back that involved their own implementation of an ECS system. I think the work is still in progress though, so I don't know if they've documented it yet. Their team do this as a hobby I think, so progress is pretty slow since it occupies their free time. https://excaliburjs.com/ https://github.com/excaliburjs/Excalibur/pulls
Phaser
Posts with mentions or reviews of Phaser.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-11.
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Simple React Game Tutorial
Just use an actual game framework https://phaser.io/
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Not only Unity...
Phaser (MIT/JS) https://github.com/photonstorm/phaser
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Thirteen Potions Build Log
I used the Phaser framework to build the game! I didn't pick it for any particular reason, I just saw that they were offering prizes at the end of the game jam so I thought it'd be a good choice. In hindsight, once again, I should have read the fine print and realized that Phaser is very large for this kind of game jam, but MOVING ON.
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Alternative Game Engines for Marooned Unity Developers
Phaser: I've actually used this engine before! It's pretty decent if you're just making small browser games and really easy to use. I taught a programming class to kids aged 10-15 and we used this for a couple of projects. They had no problem making some decent games with it. MIT Licensed and would definitely recommend giving it a go if you want to make something that has the same sort of style as older browser flash games we all used to play on Miniclip and other similar sites.
- FLaNK Stack Weekly 18 September 2023
- Phaser: A fast, fun and free open source HTML5 game framework
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Consider web technologies for game development
https://phaser.io/ is a great framework to get started with
- Bitty Engine: A tiny powerful game engine
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Building a Mobile Game with Phaser and Ionic Vue: Part One
I love playing video games, especially console and mobile games. I learned about Phaser (an open source framework for building games with JavaScript) last year and have wanted to try out game development using the skills I already have as a web developer.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Excalibur and Phaser you can also consider the following projects:
hatetris - Tetris which always gives you the worst piece
kaboom.js - 💥 JavaScript game library
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.
PixiJS - The HTML5 Creation Engine: Create beautiful digital content with the fastest, most flexible 2D WebGL renderer.
DuckEngine - A 2D Game Engine for the web.
GDevelop - :video_game: Open-source, cross-platform game engine designed to be used by everyone.
angular-rpg-game-engine - A 2D game engine for creating room-based sneak/action games with puzzle elements
BabylonJS - Babylon.js is a powerful, beautiful, simple, and open game and rendering engine packed into a friendly JavaScript framework.
ecsy-devtools - ECSY Developer tools extension
three.js - JavaScript 3D Library.
ecsy - Entity Component System for javascript
nextjs-boilerplate - A NextJS boilerplate with tailwindcss, eslint and prettier