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36,182 | 3,590 | |
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9 days ago | 8 months ago | |
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MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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phaser
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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.
Unreal.js
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Unreal Rust
This reminds me of Unreal.js, which allows you to write games with Unreal Engine in JavaScript (V8, to be specific): https://github.com/ncsoft/Unreal.js.
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bUt PeRForMaNCE
If you wanted to, sure. remake a game engine in js. But remember the hoops you had to go through to make it less efficient than it needs to be. Don't start wondering if you fall behind in graphics quality, number of objects capable of running physics, or framerate.
I onlny know about Unreal 4
- Has someone did a complete game out of Unreal.js ?
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Tough life of a game developer
For example, here is Unreal.js's example for extending the 3rd Person Template: https://github.com/ncsoft/Unreal.js/wiki/Third-Person-Template-in-Unreal.js
What are some alternatives?
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]
whitestorm.js - :rocket: 🌪 Super-fast 3D framework for Web Applications 🥇 & Games 🎮. Based on Three.js
JS Game - JavaScript + Canvas 2D game engine
kaboom.js - 💥 JavaScript game library
Excalibur - 🎮 Your friendly TypeScript 2D game engine for the web 🗡️
A-Frame - :a: Web framework for building virtual reality experiences.
teavm - Compiles Java bytecode to JavaScript, WebAssembly and C
UnrealEnginePython - Embed Python in Unreal Engine 4
Obsidian-Templates - These are a few of my templates for the Templater Obsidian.md plugin.
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.
Godot - Godot Engine – Multi-platform 2D and 3D game engine
melonJS - a fresh, modern & lightweight HTML5 game engine