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Top 23 JavaScript Game Engine Projects
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SurveyJS
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GDevelop combines open-source flexibility with powerful no-code features. Their recent AI plugins provide remarkable capabilities:
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Project mention: Release Radar · August 2024: Major updates from the open source community | dev.to | 2024-09-05
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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melonJS Lightweight HTML5 game engine.
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LittleJS
LittleJS is the tiny fast HTML5 game engine with many features and no dependencies. 🚂 Choo-Choo!
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Project mention: Sprig: Build a game, get an open source console | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-09-27
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react-native-game-engine-handbook
A React Native app showcasing some examples using react-native-game-engine 🐒✨
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HTML5-Canvas-Game-Boilerplate
Provides a set of default code that makes getting up and running with an HTML5 canvas game very easy.
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goldensun_html5
An online Golden Sun Engine entirely built in HTML5 with Phaser 2. Check https://gshtml5.org/
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Project mention: Show HN: Open Sourcing Our No-Code WebXR Editor After 5 Years of Development | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-07-03
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GDevelop-extensions
Repository of behaviors, actions, conditions and expressions to be used in GDevelop for creating games
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MERN-template
A website template using the MERN stack. It is geared towards Persistent Browser Based Games (think neopets), but is flexible enough for a number of different uses.
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GDevelop-examples
Repository of examples and templates for GDevelop - the open-source, no-code game engine
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oddslingers.poker
The Django + React codebase powering the free, open-source poker platform: OddSlingers.com
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SaaSHub
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NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
JavaScript Game Engine discussion
JavaScript Game Engine related posts
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Wheel Reinventor's Principles
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What is GDevelop: An Open-Source Game Engine
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Release 0.4 // Final PR
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Release 0.4 // The Plan
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Procedural Generation and Noise
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Hackoberfest: Part 4
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Hackoberfest: Part 3
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A note from our sponsor - InfluxDB
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Game Engine projects in JavaScript? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | A-Frame | 17,047 |
| 2 | GDevelop | 14,070 |
| 3 | engine | 10,154 |
| 4 | melonJS | 6,058 |
| 5 | LittleJS | 3,656 |
| 6 | react-native-game-engine | 2,992 |
| 7 | bitECS | 1,041 |
| 8 | microstudio | 1,031 |
| 9 | sprig | 988 |
| 10 | quadplay | 906 |
| 11 | ranviermud | 808 |
| 12 | noa | 638 |
| 13 | react-native-game-engine-handbook | 610 |
| 14 | text-engine | 347 |
| 15 | HTML5-Canvas-Game-Boilerplate | 256 |
| 16 | goldensun_html5 | 176 |
| 17 | transfer-thought | 169 |
| 18 | GDevelop-extensions | 160 |
| 19 | jsrl | 125 |
| 20 | MERN-template | 73 |
| 21 | GDevelop-examples | 72 |
| 22 | oddslingers.poker | 63 |
| 23 | blocks | 63 |
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