LittleJS
LittleJS is the tiny fast HTML5 game engine with many features and no dependencies. 🚂 Choo-Choo! (by KilledByAPixel)
matter-js
a 2D rigid body physics engine for the web ▲● ■ (by liabru)
| LittleJS | matter-js | |
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| 27 | 9 | |
| 3,479 | 16,987 | |
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| 9.8 | 7.2 | |
| 4 days ago | 4 months ago | |
| JavaScript | JavaScript | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | 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.
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
matter-js
Posts with mentions or reviews of matter-js.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-31.
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Copying Angry Birds with nothing but AI
Do you think this worked so cleanly because there is a tutorial similar to this and its in the dataset?
https://github.com/liabru/matter-js/wiki/Tutorials
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Draggable physics button? How would you create such an effect?
If you don't want to create your own physics engine, there are also existing ones like matter.js.
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Advice about useful libraries to create a 2D car game (hill climb racing style)
A physics engine for the basic stuff (colisions with the terrain, gravity, rigid body mechanics, suspension springs...) would be great and I think Matter.js it's a great option
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Phaser vs PixiJS for making 2D games
Another option is to add a third-party physics library such as Matter.js, although setting up and integrating the physics library can be tricky. If you need physics in your game, especially more complex physics effects, Phaser is a better choice.
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Canvas Liquid Effect using Matter.js and SVG Filters
I have created a demonstration for liquid (or gooey) effect on HTML Canvas using Matter.js and SVG Filters.
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Server side game collisions
I recently came across this library: https://github.com/liabru/matter-js
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Is there a good JavaScript library for 2D collision?
This was a bold faced lie. Matter.js has no continuous collision detection. You wasted so much of my time I hope you are mildly inconvenienced in the near future! https://github.com/liabru/matter-js/issues/5
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Matter.js z-index?
https://github.com/liabru/matter-js/issues/243 was a bit confusing. The solutions in this thread don't seem to work for me, and i cant find any information elsewhere.
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Walking AI: Simple Neural Network from Scratch
Over half of the source code is just making the robots exist. If you haven't used matter.js before, you can download it here. You can read the whole documentation here, but the functions we will need are:
What are some alternatives?
When comparing LittleJS and matter-js you can also consider the following projects:
Excalibur - 🎮 Your friendly TypeScript 2D game engine for the web 🗡️
kaboom.js - 💥 JavaScript game library **Abandoned** Succeeded by KAPLAY
colyseus - ⚔ Multiplayer Framework for Node.js
melonJS - a fresh, modern & lightweight HTML5 game engine
LittleJSexamples
engine - Powerful web graphics runtime built on WebGL, WebGPU, WebXR and glTF
angular-rpg-game-engine - A 2D game engine for creating room-based sneak/action games with puzzle elements
offscreen-canvas - Demo app using worker.Canvas
Shaku - A simple yet effective web game development framework *that knows its place*!
Projectile-Motion-Simulation - A simple projectile motion simulator made made using matter.js , it looks cool and ofc gonna help you see physically accurate projectile motion
jsrl - JavaScript/TypeScript Roguelike Template - The basics to start building your own
Pattern-Script - Open Source HTML5 Game Engine based on PuzzleScript
LittleJS vs Excalibur
matter-js vs kaboom.js
LittleJS vs colyseus
matter-js vs melonJS
LittleJS vs LittleJSexamples
matter-js vs engine
LittleJS vs angular-rpg-game-engine
matter-js vs offscreen-canvas
LittleJS vs Shaku
matter-js vs Projectile-Motion-Simulation
LittleJS vs jsrl
matter-js vs Pattern-Script