Top 23 JavaScript Gamedev Projects

• phaser

  7 36,421 9.8 JavaScript

  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.

  

Project mention: Alternatives to Flash Player for Videogame Coding? | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-05-08

• A-Frame

  103 16,230 9.6 JavaScript

  :a: Web framework for building virtual reality experiences.

  

Project mention: Ask HN: Why Htmx So Controversial? | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-05-13

I like it. It is a perfect framework for my smart RSS reader and my image sorter where I want to do some simple things like putting up modal dialogs, implementing multiple-stage selects, combo boxes, things like that.

React can handle apps with much more complex state and do really amazing things like

https://aframe.io/

but it is overkill for the common form applications it is commonly used for.

• SurveyJS

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  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.

  

• engine

  55 9,206 9.8 JavaScript

  Fast and lightweight JavaScript game engine built on WebGL and glTF

  

Project mention: Gamedev.js Jam 2024 start and theme announcement! | dev.to | 2024-04-13

10 × PlayCanvas Personal plan for 12 months

• shapez.io

  87 6,190 0.0 JavaScript

  shapez is an open source base building game on Steam inspired by factorio!

  

Project mention: Niagara Launcher | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-10

You can pay for FOSS software. I do it to support FOSS developers and maintainers.

software example: Krita https://store.steampowered.com/app/280680/Krita/ source code https://invent.kde.org/graphics/krita

game example: Shapez https://store.steampowered.com/app/1318690/shapez/ https://github.com/tobspr-games/shapez.io

• GDevelop

  147 6,237 9.8 JavaScript

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

Project mention: Gamedev.js Jam 2024 start and theme announcement! | dev.to | 2024-04-13

5 × GDevelop Gold license for 12 months

• melonJS

  11 5,711 9.5 JavaScript

  a fresh, modern & lightweight HTML5 game engine

  

• LittleJS

  24 2,770 9.3 JavaScript

  LittleJS is a HTML5 game engine with many features and no dependencies. 🚂 Choo-Choo!

Project mention: Web Game Engines and Libraries | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-23

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• p2.js

  1 2,602 10.0 JavaScript

  JavaScript 2D physics library

• microstudio

  2 874 7.2 JavaScript

  Free, open source game engine online

Project mention: Not only Unity... | /r/opensourcegames | 2023-11-11

• bitECS

  2 854 4.5 JavaScript

  Functional, minimal, data-oriented, ultra-high performance ECS library written in JavaScript

• reldens

  3 415 9.5 JavaScript

  Reldens - You can make it - Open Source MMORPG Platform

• three-js-games

  6 232 4.4 JavaScript

  👾 The code for my Three.js game dev experiments on YouTube.

• jsrl

  3 112 2.5 JavaScript

  JavaScript/TypeScript Roguelike Template - The basics to start building your own

• GDevelop-extensions

  2 104 9.0 JavaScript

  Repository of behaviors, actions, conditions and expressions to be used in GDevelop for creating games

  

• textyle

  3 95 0.0 JavaScript

  Web tilemap editor for 2D games built using React JS, WebGL and Rust (WASM).

• entity-system-js

  1 90 0.0 JavaScript

  ensy - A very simple Entity System for JavaScript

• MERN-template

  31 65 5.7 JavaScript

  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.

  

Project mention: So I spent 3.5 years making a game as a website... | /r/webdevs_of_liberty | 2023-11-07

Anyway, the structure of this website uses microservices, driven by an engine I dubbed the MERN-template. It has it's own auth service, and supports both chat and a news feed. The game-specific elements are closed-source though (the idea is you fork the core repo, and build out from there).

• wordled

  1 51 0.0 JavaScript

  A Wordle based game made in Javascript

• GDevelop-examples

  2 34 8.4 JavaScript

  Repository of examples and templates for GDevelop - the open-source, no-code game engine

  

• cloudwithchris.com

  10 22 6.9 JavaScript

  Cloud With Chris is my personal blogging, podcasting and vlogging platform where I talk about all things cloud. I also invite guests to talk about their experiences with the cloud and hear about lessons learned along their journey.

  

• visualjs

  1 8 8.2 JavaScript

  Now `visual-js` can be used from npm i visual-js also MatrixEngneGUI Editor is here.

• gasteroids

  1 6 6.0 JavaScript

  A simple javascript game inspired by Galaga and Asteroids. Made using p5.js

• Balanc3d_game

  2 6 8.8 JavaScript

  Balanc3d is a free 10 level webgl game for the mobile browser. Play it now!

Project mention: Show HN: Level Balancing Game for the Mobile Browser | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-23

It turns out it's just ThreeJS (react-three): https://github.com/nargaw/Balanc3d_game

• SaaSHub

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