phaser VS kaboom.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/

Gold : GitHub, Phaser Studio, Arcadia

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).

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.

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)

For my case, I was trying to integrate (the deprecated) KaboomJS into React and Remix. I already built a few games years ago with Vanilla JS & Vite, but I really wanted to create a single website that hosted all of the games in one deployment on Vercel.

I have used Kaboom https://kaboomjs.com/ to help a diverse group of kids build a simple 2d game together. It’s a toolkit specifically geared toward 2d platform we type games but it could be adapted to make other 2d games. I liked that it was just JavaScript under the hood so you can introduce many programming language concepts, but the engine makes it easy to get things going with very little code. There are also lots of opportunity to focus on design aspects over pure code.

You can also use it online with Replit https://replit.com/@replit/Kaboom#code/main.ts which lets you get up and running quickly and share your work online easily.

Apparently it is no longer actively maintained by Replit, but I’m guessing it still works fine and there is also a community fork: https://github.com/kaplayjs/kaplay?tab=readme-ov-file

Switch to 2D and use kaboom: https://kaboomjs.com/ it is incredibly simple but incredibly rewarding!

But if Lua isn’t really your thing, then you could try out KaboomJS, a similar open-source javascript game library.

kaboom.js - a simple javascript library for 2D games

Kaboom is a Javascript game programming library that helps you make games fast and fun. Building games in the browser has never been so easy thanks to Kaboom from Replit. Github