engine
JavaScript game engine built on WebGL, WebGPU, WebXR and glTF (by playcanvas)
melonJS
a fresh, modern & lightweight HTML5 game engine (by melonjs)
| engine | melonJS | |
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| 56 | 12 | |
| 9,519 | 5,847 | |
| 1.6% | 0.7% | |
| 9.8 | 9.7 | |
| 2 days ago | 14 days 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.
engine
Posts with mentions or reviews of engine.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-09-05.
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Release Radar · August 2024: Major updates from the open source community
If you love building games, this one is for you. PlayCanvas is a WebGL and HTML5 game engine. Some of the web's most popular games have been built with PlayCanvas. The latest release has tonnes of breaking changes from removing WebGL1 support along with dozens of other legacy scripts and functions. There are also some new rendering features, materials, and blending tools. Dig into all the changes in the release notes.
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Gamedev.js Jam 2024 start and theme announcement!
10 × PlayCanvas Personal plan for 12 months
- List of Unity alternatives
- PlayCanvas: Free and Open Source JavaScript Game Engine
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Normal Map Interpolation on Deferred Shading
For some reason that I cannot understand in my case the calculated shading normals are pixelated. Compared to playcanvas.com (probably a forward renderer), mine is like utter shit.
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Migrating from WordPress After 12 Years
PlayCanvas has been using WordPress for 12 years now. Generally speaking, it's been fine. However, after much consideration, we have migrated away to Jekyll + GitHub Pages. I thought our experience might be of interest to other WordPress users (if only to confirm why you wouldn't consider switching): https://blog.playcanvas.com/moving-from-wordpress-to-jekyll-a-case-study/ Interested to hear peoples' thoughts...
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I made a 3D editor that models in pure CSS+HTML
It's just a cool tech demo that pushes CSS to its limits, but it's completely useless if you want to create usable 3d models. If you want to model in the browser, you can check out vectary, playcanvas, or spline
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Help With Web AR App Project Completion?
Hey, I do not have any experience with deepar.ai so I’m not super familiar with the process using that platform. In my opinion I’d probably recommend another platform to try and accomplish this. Since you mentioned that you have everything set up in a engine already (lens studio) I’d recommend you just use a webxr engine. In my experience the two best engines are https://playcanvas.com and https://wonderlandengine.com. I think that going down this route may be the best option for your needs. I am willing to help out or do some of the work for you just pm me if you have any questions or anything.
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Alternatives to WebGL to run a very simple 2D game on mobile browser?
If you want the closest thing to Unity that's focused on browser-based (mobile and otherwise) development, try Playcanvas: https://playcanvas.com/
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Initial WebGPU support lands in PlayCanvas Engine 1.62! 🚀
Release Notes: https://github.com/playcanvas/engine/releases/tag/v1.62.0 Clustered Arealights Demo: https://playcanvas.com/demos/arealights/
melonJS
Posts with mentions or reviews of melonJS.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-06-11.
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10 must known JS/TS open-source packages
melonJS Lightweight HTML5 game engine.
- Babylon 6.0
- Final FLiP Stack Weekly of 2022
- MelonJS – a fresh and lightweight JavaScript game engine
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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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Silliest names that exist for frameworks, tools, languages, etc?
- https://melonjs.org/
- MelonJS 10.0.2
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CSS Deep
melonjs/melonJS - a fresh & lightweight javascript game engine
What are some alternatives?
When comparing engine and melonJS you can also consider the following projects:
matter-js - a 2D rigid body physics engine for the web ▲● ■
Godot - Godot Engine – Multi-platform 2D and 3D game engine
kaboom.js - 💥 JavaScript game library **Abandoned** Succeeded by KAPLAY
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]
react-native-game-engine - A lightweight Game Engine for React Native 🕹⚡🎮
JS Game - JavaScript + Canvas 2D game engine
WebXR-games - Curated list of cool WebXR Games & Experiences
vex - A modern dialog library which is highly configurable and easy to style. #hubspot-open-source
entity-system-js - ensy - A very simple Entity System for JavaScript
google-chrome-dino - Recreation of everyone's favorite offline companion, google chrome dinosaur game, with the same classic monochrome interface.