phaser VS Excalibur

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This is super cool & I'm impressed that it's working with WebGL.

From reading the code & seeing the examples in the sandbox, it looks like the sprite layer is defined one time (initialization) with specific sprite & animation properties that are exposed to JS via the SpriteGPULayer config https://github.com/phaserjs/phaser/blob/v4.0.0-beta.5/src/ga... , then that class passes the info over to the vertex shader which has ifdefs to determine which animation, other features are enabled for a given SpriteGPULayer - https://github.com/phaserjs/phaser/blob/v4.0.0-beta.5/src/re...

This way you don't end up having to do any updates per frame on the CPU and it remains one draw call for the entire layer right?

Are there other use cases besides from large scale sprite/animated backgrounds that you've thought of?

I've started working on a simple interactive version of my portfolio using Phaser.js.

This is first time i used Phaser for making a game but it's a very nice and easy HTML5 framework and i follow tutorial to use phaser and after few of them, i tried to add few things and make the gameplay how i would enjoy, so i learn about spritesheets and audios and then how many states we have to keep in mind while building a game, like preload(), create() and update() and how to manage these before adding anything or changing in the game. 👾

Phaser

https://phaser.io/. It’s more of a game framework in JavaScript with built in libraries for collision. The getting started tutorial is decent/short and gives a good idea of what is going on.

Phasor which uses TypeScript or JavaScript

If you're targeting the browser first why not use a browser first library like PhaserJS [0]?. I don't see a reason to work around with WASM; HTML5 canvas might be everything that you need.

[0] https://phaser.io/

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.

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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