13 Javascript & HTML5 Game Engines Libraries for Web Developers

September 25, 2014
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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. 

 Impactjs

Impact is one of the best javascript game engine that allow to developers for create stunning Games. You can develop HTML5 games for desktop and mobile browsers, supports FIrefox, Chrome,, Safari, Opera and IE also.

 

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Craftyjs

Craftjs is another excellent game engine that provide the interface to develop amazing games that has cross browser compatibility.

 

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 Play Craft Labs

This playcraft engine provides a toolset for developers that helps to create any kind of games. This toolset gives you everything that you need to develop unique games and you can convert easily it to many platform including Facebook, plain old websites, and as a native Android or iOS application.

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Best HTML5 and javascript game engine Library –  Jawsjs

It’s 2D HTML5 javascript game library that allow developers to create Canvas and DOM based sprites with same API.

Game Engine Highlights –
– Sprite() – Onscreen, movable, scalable objects
– Game states – Separate sections of your game for better organized code
– SpriteSheet() and Animation() – Load spritesheets and animate frames
– Assets – Jaws will preload all your images before the game starts
– Documented code and explained examples
– Does Not depend on any other javascript library

 

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 Enchantjs

Enchantjs is a wonderful open source framework that helps to develop games and Apps in HTML5 and JavaScript. Features: –

• Objected Oriented: all items displayed are objects
• Multiplatform: runs in iOS, Android, Mac, Windows browsers
• Windows 8: supports development for Windows 8 interactive HTML5
• Event-driven: based on asynchronous processing via event listeners
• Animation Engine: allows the use of standard animation such as tweens
• Hybrid Drawing: supports drawing with both the Canvas API and the DOM
• WebGL Support: supports 3D games using WebGL with a plugin
• Content Library: includes a royalty-free image library for use in your games

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 Collie

Collie is a Javascript library that helps to create highly optimized animations and games using HTML 5. Collie runs on both PC and mobile using HTML 5 canvas and DOM.

 

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 Traffic Cone

traffic cone is 2D and 2.5D tile based game engine, its client side written in HTML5.

Features:

• Easily configurable sprite animations
• Simple to set up tile based worlds
• Mock-3D math for layering, depth and positioning is handled for you via Traffic Cone’s world models.
• Basic Isometric pathfinding, AI and collision detection
• Custom draw routines on sprites supported.
• Granular control of sprite sequencing supported for more dramatic animations
• Intelligent draw logic only draws modified parts of your canvas for better frame rates.

 

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HTML5 Quintus

 

Quintus, HTML5 JavaScript game engine provide a better interface to develop Games for Mobile, Desktop and beyond. Just start with its guideline.

 

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 Flashjs

FlashJS is one of the great graphics and game development engine API, This This library allows to develop HTML5 games and applications in the way that is similar to ordinary AS3 development. Support Browsers like Chrome, Safari, Internet Explorer, and Firefox.

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Game Queryjs

GameQuery is a javascript game engine for jQuery, easy to use jQuery Plugin to help make javascript game development.

 

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 Melonjs

MelonJs is fresh and lightweight free library help to develop 2D based games. It has multiple great features like – compatible with every browser ( Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Opera, IE), multiple audio channel support, tween effects, transition effects and more.

 

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  Turbulenz

Turbulenz, this is open source HTML5 game engine for developing games with HTML5 SDK that contains everything a developers needs to rapidly get their project going, polished and deployed.

 

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  Iso Genic Engine

Isogenic game engine is most advanced HTML5 multiplayer game engine with stat of the art scene graph-based architecture and easy to use realtime multiplayer functionality, javascript run on browsers, mobile devices and Node.js with a single API and Code base.

 

 

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  Akihabara

 

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  Canvas Engine

CanvasEngine gives you all the means to easily create a game in HTML5 Canvas. A simple API with a structure thought the games.

 

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 Gogo Make Play

GMP is a fast, free, javascript game engine, dual licenced under GPLv2 and MIT licenses. It’s small, simple, and easy to learn and use.

 

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  Squarepig

This is HTML5 game engine.

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  jGen

jGen is the Javascript game engine for developers.

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