14 Javascript & HTML5 Game Engines Libraries for Developers
Game developers have dropped Flash for its competitor, HTML5, which, along with some help from a Javascript plugin, makes smaller and more interesting online games for browsers or game apps for mobile. The mobile platforms are the most important reason why Javascript and HTML5 games are gaining this much popularity.
Isogenic Engine
The Isogenic Game Engine allows you to create games in both 2d and isometric and has built-in isometric depth-sorting, path-finding and even supports Box2d in isometric!
Turbulenz
The engine libraries are implemented in optimized JavaScript supporting rapid iteration of game code and data. The engine executes directly in the browser and includes several interesting features.
Crafty
Crafty is a JavaScript game library that can help you create games in a structured way
melonJS
melonJS is the result of our enthusiasm and past experiments with Javascript, and came from the feeling that no simple, free and standalone library was available to develop games. And although still a work in progress, melonJS already allows to easily create some nice games
RPG JS
Cocos2d-javascript
Cocos2d-javascript is a 2D game/graphics engine based on cocos2d-iphone but designed to run in the web browser. It uses the latest features available in HTML 5 allowing real-time rendering of 2D graphics without the need for plug-ins such as Adobe Flash.
LimeJS
LimeJS is a HTML5 game framework for building fast, native-experience games for all modern touchscreens and desktop browsers.
gameQuery
gameQuery is an easy to use jQuery plug-in to help make javascript game development easier by adding some simple game-related classes. If you know how to use jQuery you almost know how to use gameQuery
QuarkJS – A HTML5 Game Framework
enchant.js
enchant.js is an HTML5 + JavaScript based game engine. It is a standalone library that enables cross-platform application development for PC, Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Android from just 30 KB of source code.
Doodle-js
Jaws HTML5 javascript game lib
Jaws is a 2D game lib powered by HTML5. It started out only doing canvas but is now also supporting ordinary DOM based sprites through the same API.
GameJs
GameJs is a thin library on top of the HTML canvas element. In addition to the drawing functions it has a set of generally helpful modules for game development.
Akihabara
It is a set of libraries, tools and presets to create pixelated indie-style 8/16-bit era games in Javascript that runs in your browser without any Flash plugin, making use of a small small small subset of the HTML5 features, that are actually available on many modern browsers.
Write AS code into HTML
FlashJS is JavaScript graphics and game development engine with API similar to Flash one. It`s HTML5 game development tool, based on verified for years Flash methodology. Just write ActionScript 3 code inside of < actionscript > tag.
Originally posted 2014-10-06 18:41:15.