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

  • 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.

  • Phaser

    Discontinued 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] (by photonstorm)

    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.

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