phaser VS Excalibur

Here is what I wanted to find - simple portal where I could play simpler games built with HTML and Javascript and nothing else. Sure, building them with engines like Phaser is one thing, but creating a complete game with Unity and then packing it together to play a game that I can't tinker with is no fun!

Gold : GitHub, Poki, Defold, Phaser Studio

I'm creating my first game!

- Janky screenshot of progress so far: https://i.imgur.com/4afs5lv.png

- 2D single player browser game

- infinite procedural generated world

- build your starship

- manage a crew

- explore, harvest, trade and plunder the universe

- Frontend: Phaser 3 + WebGL + TypeScript https://phaser.io

- Backend: Workerthread + EliCS + TypeScript https://elixr-games.github.io/elics

- I made a Discord for it and I post daily videos of progress: https://discord.gg/FZa6w2TP

- I might open source it but since I play to make this a commercial game, I'm not sure yet. But I'm glad to help anyone with similar projects if I can

My challenges with it are:

- Keeping FPS above 60

- Art. I'm very bad with art

- Having something playable within 20 days

Pick an engine that's been around for a long time like Love2D or PhaserJS as they'll almost assuredly be in the training data of any substantial LLM.

https://github.com/phaserjs/phaser

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Löve_(game_framework)

Nice!

A couple of years ago, I tried something in that direction[1] using Phaser[2], and it was quite fun. I used Tiled Editor[3] to create the map and some pixel art that I purchased from itch.io.

[1] - https://story.tuzemec.com (not very mobile friendly)

[2] - https://phaser.io

[3] - https://www.mapeditor.org/

https://phaser.io/tutorials/making-your-first-phaser-3-game/...

This sounds like I'm ballooning the scope out to become something unachievable, so I need to be smart about it, and only implement the parts of the engine that I need at any particular moment. I'm planning on leaning on the architecture of the fantastic, yet little known engine, excalibur.js as a guide.

15k average monthly page views of excaliburjs.com

Link to Excalibur.js

ExcaliburJS is a friendly, TypeScript 2D game engine that can produce games for the web. It is free and open source (FOSS), well documented, and has a growing, healthy community of gamedevs working with it and supporting each other. There is a great discord channel for it HERE, for questions and inquiries. Check it out!!!

Excalibur.js - A game engine for the web written in TypeScript. It’s my current choice for prototyping because the docs are clearly written and the TypeScript tells you the rest. https://excaliburjs.com/

I'm a web dev by profession working on large scale web apps. I absolutely hate Phaser. It feels like going a decade back in time. Excalibur is newer to the market though and I've played around with it and really enjoyed it. Written with TypeScript and they're working on implementing an ECS system. https://excaliburjs.com/

Another option is Excalibur, a game engine being built in TypeScript. Looks great and their docs are easy to follow. I tried it out to make a simple game, and was able to produce something in a couple hours. I saw a few PRs get merged a while back that involved their own implementation of an ECS system. I think the work is still in progress though, so I don't know if they've documented it yet. Their team do this as a hobby I think, so progress is pretty slow since it occupies their free time. https://excaliburjs.com/ https://github.com/excaliburjs/Excalibur/pulls