LittleJS
LittleJS is a HTML5 game engine with many features and no dependencies. 🚂 Choo-Choo! (by KilledByAPixel)
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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| LittleJS | Phaser | |
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| 24 | 182 | |
| 2,754 | 35,792 | |
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| 9.4 | 9.6 | |
| 7 days ago | 4 months ago | |
| JavaScript | JavaScript | |
| MIT 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.
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
- 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
- LittleJS – The Tiny JavaScript Game Engine That Can
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How to make a game under 10 MB and what engine to use?
Checkout LittleJS, MelonJS and my main recommendation, Phaser.
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Web developer here thinking about developing a game with HTML5, any thoughts?
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
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 LittleJS and Phaser you can also consider the following projects:
matter-js - a 2D rigid body physics engine for the web ▲● ■
kaboom.js - 💥 JavaScript game library
colyseus - ⚔ Multiplayer Framework for Node.js
PixiJS - The HTML5 Creation Engine: Create beautiful digital content with the fastest, most flexible 2D WebGL renderer.
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GDevelop - :video_game: Open-source, cross-platform game engine designed to be used by everyone.
Excalibur - 🎮 Your friendly TypeScript 2D game engine for the web 🗡️
BabylonJS - Babylon.js is a powerful, beautiful, simple, and open game and rendering engine packed into a friendly JavaScript framework.
melonJS - a fresh, modern & lightweight HTML5 game engine
three.js - JavaScript 3D Library.
Shaku - A simple yet effective web game development framework *that knows its place*!
nextjs-boilerplate - A NextJS boilerplate with tailwindcss, eslint and prettier