How would one go about creating a website-based game?

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  • love.js

    LÖVE ported to the web using Emscripten, updated to the latest Emscripten and LÖVE (v11.4)

  • You can use LÖVE framework and love.js. LÖVE is based on Lua, an easy to learn dynamic language - you can find many tutorials both for Love and Lua. Love.js transcripts your code to javascript, ready for browser. For simple games, no need to know javascript, love.js works quite well and does all the job.

  • Lua

    Lua is a powerful, efficient, lightweight, embeddable scripting language. It supports procedural programming, object-oriented programming, functional programming, data-driven programming, and data description.

  • You can use LÖVE framework and love.js. LÖVE is based on Lua, an easy to learn dynamic language - you can find many tutorials both for Love and Lua. Love.js transcripts your code to javascript, ready for browser. For simple games, no need to know javascript, love.js works quite well and does all the job.

  • SurveyJS

    Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

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  • love

    LÖVE is an awesome 2D game framework for Lua.

  • You can use LÖVE framework and love.js. LÖVE is based on Lua, an easy to learn dynamic language - you can find many tutorials both for Love and Lua. Love.js transcripts your code to javascript, ready for browser. For simple games, no need to know javascript, love.js works quite well and does all the job.

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