LittleJS
LittleJS is the tiny fast HTML5 game engine with many features and no dependencies. 🚂 Choo-Choo! (by KilledByAPixel)
Excalibur
🎮 Your friendly TypeScript 2D game engine for the web 🗡️ (by excaliburjs)
| LittleJS | Excalibur | |
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| 27 | 8 | |
| 3,479 | 1,837 | |
| - | 1.6% | |
| 9.8 | 9.7 | |
| 4 days ago | 4 days ago | |
| JavaScript | TypeScript | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License |
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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.
LittleJS
Posts with mentions or reviews of LittleJS.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-12-03.
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My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback
I would go with sth more simple and geared towards game dev
https://github.com/KilledByAPixel/LittleJS
is awesome and has many examples so you can start by editing them
- LittleJS is a fast HTML5 game engine with many features and no dependencies
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Porting My JavaScript Game Engine to C for No Reason
now rewrite it back to JS with https://github.com/KilledByAPixel/LittleJS
j/k :D
- Web Game Engines and Libraries
- Undergrowth - A tale from O Monolith, The new album by Squid!
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Undergrowth - A story from O Monolith - The new album by Squid
Made with my own open source game engine LittleJS!
- [AskJS] any recommended frameworks for making 2d games in browser?
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Most popular library to build games in javascript?
LittleJS
- GitHub - KilledByAPixel/LittleJS: The Tiny JavaScript Game Engine That Can!
- LittleJS - a super lightweight JavaScript game engine with a fast hybrid rendering system. It provides everything necessary to make amazing games, including rendering, physics, particles, sound effects, music, input handling, and debug tools
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 2024-05-25.
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One-Byte Explainer: Excalibur.JS
Link to Excalibur.js
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Pathfinding Part 2 with A*
ExcaliburJS is a friendly, TypeScript 2D game engine that can produce games for the web. It is free and open source (FOSS), well documented, and has a growing, healthy community of gamedevs working with it and supporting each other. There is a great discord channel for it HERE, for questions and inquiries. Check it out!!!
- [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
What are some alternatives?
When comparing LittleJS and Excalibur you can also consider the following projects:
matter-js - a 2D rigid body physics engine for the web ▲● ■
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.
colyseus - ⚔ Multiplayer Framework for Node.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]
LittleJSexamples
hatetris - Tetris which always gives you the worst piece
angular-rpg-game-engine - A 2D game engine for creating room-based sneak/action games with puzzle elements
DuckEngine - A 2D Game Engine for the web.
Shaku - A simple yet effective web game development framework *that knows its place*!
jsrl - JavaScript/TypeScript Roguelike Template - The basics to start building your own
ecsy-devtools - ECSY Developer tools extension