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Arcade | phaser | |
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47 | 5 | |
1,606 | 36,324 | |
0.6% | 99.1% | |
9.2 | 9.8 | |
6 days ago | 2 days ago | |
Python | JavaScript | |
MIT License | MIT License |
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Arcade
- Not only Unity...
- GitHub - pythonarcade/arcade: Easy to use Python library for creating 2D arcade games.
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Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell
I work on a Python game engine called Arcade[1] and other projects within it's Github organization such as pytiled-parser. We also help to drive continued development and improvement within Pyglet[2]. Recently, my efforts have been focused on creating a version which can be run in web browsers by using Pyodide and WebGL[3], though that is still fairly early stages.
Arcade's primary focus is on being an educational tool for beginner programmers, so my hope is that with browser compatibility we can lower the barrier to entry further and make it more accessible and easy to get started with. In a similar vein to the goals of browser compatibility, we've recently enabled full compatibility with Raspberry Pi through the use of OpenGL ES(and this was largely only possible thanks to the huge amount of work that everyone involved in the Mesa project puts in)
I'm not the original author of Arcade, but I am a current maintainer and put a substantial amount of time into it and it's community.
[1] - https://github.com/pythonarcade/arcade
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Arcade with PyInstaller
Interesting, looks like some of the default fonts are not getting frozen as part of the executable? I opened an issue: https://github.com/pythonarcade/arcade/issues/1252
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Arcade 2.6.14 has been released
Website: https://arcade.academy
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Ideas for a new project?
Create a game! Get some ideas here: https://arcade.academy
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Are there any tutorials for making a game in python
You can look at the example code and tutorials here: https://arcade.academy/
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Arcade version 2.6.13 has been released
Added clear method to UIManager (#1116)
Arcade can now run in headless mode on linux servers opening more possibilities for users in for example the data science community (#1107). See Headless Arcade for more information.
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Arcade 2.6.11 is out
Fixed issue #978, copy button in examples moved to the left to prevent it disappearing.
phaser
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Gamedev.js Jam 2024 start and theme announcement!
Gold : GitHub, Phaser Studio, Arcadia
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Introduction to JavaScript: Empowering Web Development with Interactivity
Versatility: JavaScript is not limited to web browsers. It's used in a variety of environments, including mobile app development (using frameworks like React Native), game development (using libraries like Phaser), and even serverless computing (using platforms like AWS Lambda).
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A developer portfolio as a 2D top-down walking simulator
This reminds me of my first real dev job, 10y ago, making small facebook games with https://phaser.io it was actually kind of fun now that I think back.
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Aftermath of switching from VSCode to Neovim
Is it worth it? I think while attempting to create a game engine with the Canvas API and vanilla JavaScript. (I quickly ditched that idea and started using PhaserJS)
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Phaser: A fast, fun and free open source HTML5 game framework
I didn't try to build anything with Phaser, but I evaluated it a bit when trying to pick a game engine for a 2D web game.
The tech didn't impress me that much, but it also seemed like the most mature 2D game engine available in JS.
Notably, Phaser 4 was announced ~four years ago and was an attempt to get the project written natively in TypeScript. It looks pretty dead in the water - https://github.com/phaserjs/phaser and having a "best effort" TypeScript experience layered onto Phaser 3 didn't excite me.
Additionally, with browsers gaining support for WebGPU, I expect any game engine worth their snuff to begin rapidly adopting support for WebGPU. As best I can tell, any hope of Phaser supporting WebGPU is lumped into Phaser 4, so... not much to say there.
Overall, it was a little tough for me to tell if I was being overly critical and viewing a mature product as a ghost town, but that's the impression I took away from it.
As far as I can tell, BabylonJS is king in town for a TypeScript game engine, but its focus is 3D experiences. I didn't find an especially compelling 2D game engine. I ended up making a prototype using React + PixiJS + React-Pixi, but that was hardly an engine and had significant performance issues.
Now I am building in Rust with Bevy. It's slow going, creating UI elements sucks right now, but the underlying tech is super solid and I feel good about what I write and what I learn even if I'm dismayed at the pace in which I am creating.
What are some alternatives?
Pygame - 🐍🎮 pygame (the library) is a Free and Open Source python programming language library for making multimedia applications like games built on top of the excellent SDL library. C, Python, Native, OpenGL.
kaboom.js - 💥 JavaScript game library
pyglet - pyglet is a cross-platform windowing and multimedia library for Python, for developing games and other visually rich applications.
Excalibur - 🎮 Your friendly TypeScript 2D game engine for the web 🗡️
Cocos2d - Cocos2d-x is a suite of open-source, cross-platform, game-development tools utilized by millions of developers across the globe. Its core has evolved to serve as the foundation for Cocos Creator 1.x & 2.x.
cocos-engine - Cocos simplifies game creation and distribution with Cocos Creator, a free, open-source, cross-platform game engine. Empowering millions of developers to create high-performance, engaging 2D/3D games and instant web entertainment.
Panda3D - Powerful, mature open-source cross-platform game engine for Python and C++, developed by Disney and CMU
Godot - Godot Engine – Multi-platform 2D and 3D game engine
love - LÖVE is an awesome 2D game framework for Lua.
A-Frame - :a: Web framework for building virtual reality experiences.
pyxel - A retro game engine for Python
melonJS - a fresh, modern & lightweight HTML5 game engine