LittleJS vs jsrl

LittleJS

LittleJS is a HTML5 game engine with many features and no dependencies. 🚂 Choo-Choo! (by KilledByAPixel)

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jsrl

JavaScript/TypeScript Roguelike Template - The basics to start building your own (by slashman)

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LittleJS		jsrl
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24	Mentions	3
2,754	Stars	112
-	Growth	-
9.4	Activity	0.0
8 days ago	Latest Commit	21 days ago
JavaScript	Language	JavaScript
MIT License	License	MIT License

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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 2024-04-23.

Web Game Engines and Libraries
5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Apr 2024
Undergrowth - A tale from O Monolith, The new album by Squid!
1 project | /r/Games | 11 Jun 2023
Undergrowth - A story from O Monolith - The new album by Squid
1 project | /r/playmygame | 11 Jun 2023

Made with my own open source game engine LittleJS!
[AskJS] any recommended frameworks for making 2d games in browser?
4 projects | /r/javascript | 10 Jun 2023
Most popular library to build games in javascript?
1 project | /r/gamedev | 28 Dec 2022

LittleJS
GitHub - KilledByAPixel/LittleJS: The Tiny JavaScript Game Engine That Can!
1 project | /r/javascript | 22 Dec 2022
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
1 project | /r/javascript | 20 Dec 2022
LittleJS – The Tiny JavaScript Game Engine That Can
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Dec 2022
How to make a game under 10 MB and what engine to use?
5 projects | /r/gamedev | 2 Aug 2022

Checkout LittleJS, MelonJS and my main recommendation, Phaser.
Web developer here thinking about developing a game with HTML5, any thoughts?
12 projects | /r/gamedev | 31 Mar 2022

I myself am currently using LittleJS, and it's just amazing for me, as it sorts out the core engine & rendering logic, but I can easily reuse and plug in any sort of other libraries/old scripts from other games at need: https://github.com/KilledByAPixel/LittleJS

jsrl

Posts with mentions or reviews of jsrl. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-02-24.

JSRL, the Javascript Roguelike template, now with JS support!
1 project | /r/roguelikedev | 23 Feb 2023

JSRL (https://github.com/slashman/jsrl) is a bare-bones roguelike featuring both tiles and character-based displays. It can be played via a web browser or as a native app for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
Help. I forgot the name of a roguelike JS library (not ROT.js)
1 project | /r/roguelikedev | 6 Jul 2022

Is it JSRL? https://github.com/slashman/jsrl
Extending jsrl with rot.js
2 projects | /r/roguelikedev | 24 Feb 2021

In preparation for 7DRL 2021 I've been extending jsrl with rot.js for level generation and next I'm going implement rot.js's scheduling system (then probably replace FOV and pathfinding). The idea is to have core roguelike mechanics in place on which to innovate during the challenge rather than building from scratch each time.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing LittleJS and jsrl you can also consider the following projects:

matter-js - a 2D rigid body physics engine for the web ▲● ■

jsrl - Roguelike Boilerplate in JavaScript - A basic roguelike with core mechanics to build on for yourself

colyseus - ⚔ Multiplayer Framework for Node.js

engine - Fast and lightweight JavaScript game engine built on WebGL and glTF

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A-Frame - :a: Web framework for building virtual reality experiences.

Excalibur - 🎮 Your friendly TypeScript 2D game engine for the web 🗡️

ct-js - Ct.js is a desktop game engine that makes learning programming fun and game development easy by its visual editors and well-documented code library

melonJS - a fresh, modern & lightweight HTML5 game engine

Shaku - A simple yet effective web game development framework *that knows its place*!

twinejs - Twine, a tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories

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]