Game dev engine like unreal engine or unity but with javascript?

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  • engine

    Fast and lightweight JavaScript game engine built on WebGL and glTF

    Not sure why no one has mentioned this yet but PlayCanvas is a good option https://playcanvas.com

  • BabylonJS

    Babylon.js is a powerful, beautiful, simple, and open game and rendering engine packed into a friendly JavaScript framework.

    You can use Babylon.js or GDevelop

  • Appwrite

    Appwrite - The Open Source Firebase alternative introduces iOS support . Appwrite is an open source backend server that helps you build native iOS applications much faster with realtime APIs for authentication, databases, files storage, cloud functions and much more!

  • 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.

    Phaser

  • GDevelop

    :video_game: Open-source, cross-platform game engine designed to be used by everyone.

    GDevelop

  • polygonjs

    node-based WebGL design tool

    Maybe Polygonjs could be interesting to you, it has a visual editor which is node-based, so it will as close to programming as an interface can get.

  • Sonar

    Write Clean JavaScript Code. Always.. Sonar helps you commit clean code every time. With over 300 unique rules to find JavaScript bugs, code smells & vulnerabilities, Sonar finds the issues while you focus on the work.

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