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PlayCanvas Engine
Fast and lightweight JavaScript game engine built on WebGL and glTF
PlayCanvas is an open-source game engine. It uses HTML5 and WebGL to run games and other interactive 3D content in any mobile or desktop browser. PlayCanvas is used by leading companies in video games, advertising and visualization such as Animech, Arm, BMW, Disney, Facebook, Famobi, Funday Factory, IGT, King, Miniclip, Leapfrog, Mojiworks, Mozilla, Nickelodeon, Nordeus, NOWWA, PikPok, PlaySide Studios, Polaris, Product Madness, Samsung, Snap, Spry Fox, Zeptolab, Zynga. The PlayCanvas Engine gives incredible performance, even on devices such as the iPhone 4S. PlayCanvas ensures a fast loading time by using multiple features such as script concatenation, minification, deferred loading of non-essential assets and more. PlayCanvas has many team features such as being able to chat with your teammates directly from within the Editor. -
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Hypackel Engine
JavaScript-based game engine designed to empower developers
Hypackel Engine is a JavaScript-based 2D game engine designed to provide beginner-friendly tools for creating simple games such as platformers, RPGs, and top-down shooters. It focuses on accessibility by offering a lightweight and easy-to-integrate script that developers can import directly into web-based projects. The engine includes built-in systems for handling physics, collisions, rendering, and animation, allowing developers to focus more on gameplay logic rather than low-level implementation details. Its architecture is structured around modular systems like sprites, particles, and audio, which can be controlled through simple function calls and arrays. The project emphasizes simplicity and rapid prototyping, making it suitable for educational purposes or small-scale game development. It also includes example files and documentation to guide users through setup and usage. Overall, HYPACKEL-ENGINE-1 serves as an entry-level framework for experimenting with game development. -
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microStudio
Free, open source game engine online
microStudio is a free, open source game engine online. It is also a platform to learn and practice programming. microStudio can be used for free. You can also install your own copy, to work locally or on your own server for your team or classroom. microStudio is available online, this is the simpler and the preferred way, you will have access to all the online collaboration features, online publishing, and more export features. You don't even need to create an account, you can start working as a guest. microStudio includes all you need to write code, create sprites and maps for your 2D game. All from your web browser. Your project is stored in the cloud, and accessible from anywhere. Write your game code in microScript, a simple language inspired by Lua. The documentation is always there to help. Create cool demos in just a few lines of code. microScript shines by its simplicity and interactivity. But you can also code in JavaScript, Python, or Lua if you prefer. -
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Matter.js
A 2D rigid body physics engine for the web
Matter.js is a flexible 2D rigid body physics engine written in JavaScript, designed for use in web applications to simulate real-world physical interactions within the browser. It offers a comprehensive set of physics features like gravity, collisions, restitution (bounces), friction, sleeping bodies, and constraint systems that enable developers to build interacting objects with realistic motion. This engine can power everything from dynamic interactive animations and educational simulations to fully fledged physics-based games, and it works across major browsers and devices. Through modules such as Matter.Body, Matter.Composite, and Matter.Constraint, developers can create complex scenes with multiple bodies, jointed structures, and collision responses. Matter.js is popular in the web development community due to its simplicity, extensibility, and rich documentation, allowing both beginners and experienced programmers to leverage physics without deep expertise. -
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LittleJS
The Tiny JavaScript Game Engine That Can!
LittleJS is a super lightweight 2D JavaScript game engine with fast WebGL rendering. It is designed to be small, simple, and easy to use for various applications, from game jams to commercial releases. This engine has everything necessary to make high-quality games, including fast rendering, physics, particles, sound effects, music, keyboard/mouse/gamepad input handling, update/render loop, and debug tools. It is recommended that you start by copying the LittleJS Starter Project This file is mostly empty with just a few things you can use to get started or remove. You can also download and include engine.all.js or engine.all.min.js. In order to load files like images you will need to run a small web server like http-server on npm. I recommend an editor that does this for me automatically like Brackets or VS Code with the Live Server plugin. -
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Ct.js
Ct.js is a desktop game engine that makes learning programming fun
ct.js makes learning programming fun and game development easy by its visual tools, good docs and flexible, modular library. It is free, open-source, and is loved by hobbyists, professionals, teachers, and their students. Bad tools hinder your performance. Ct.js is designed to be like a brush with which you create games, not to be an enemy you will fight with. ct.js bundles come with offline docs, tutorials, and editable examples and demos. The code editor highlights errors and provides documentation right while writing your code. ct.js is based on Pixi.js, works on WebGL and provides great performance in browsers and desktop environments. Modules add new powers, and when ct.js is not enough, you can add any JS code or library. A small stylized adventure with AI-powered sea battles, violent environment, and little puzzle sections. Join the voyage to save a colony from a deadly disease! -
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Egret Engine
Egret is a brand new open mobile game and application engine
The Egret Engine is a HTML5 game engine. It provides modules to handle common game development tasks such as 2D and 3D rendering, GUI systems, and audio and resource management. The Egret engine is flexible and suitable for 2D or 3D projects. It allows developers to work without worrying about low-level browser implementation, HTML5 performance, or fragmentation issues. Egret projects are developed using TypeScript, which is a superset of JavaScript. Please refer to the TypeScript manual for more information. The Egret API and ActionScript3 (AS3) are very similar. It will be easy to get started with Egret if you are familiar with AS3. By default, the entry point for Egret game projects is src / Main.ts. -
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nunuStudio
Web powered cross-platform 3D, WebXR game engine
nunuStudio is an open-source editor + game development environment — a “studio” rather than just a library — designed to let developers create interactive 2D and 3D content through a user-friendly interface. It provides visual tools for scene editing, asset management, materials, and possibly scripting, aiming to reduce the friction of hand-coding every aspect from scratch. As an accessible entrypoint to game or interactive content creation, nunuStudio is well-suited for artists, designers, or developers who prefer a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) workflow instead of fully coding everything. Because it is open source, users can inspect, modify, or extend the system as needed — adding custom behaviors, plugins, or export options. It’s ideal for rapid prototyping, small games or interactive demos, or educational purposes: you can build scenes, tweak visuals, test interactivity without deep diving into all low-level rendering details. -
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Eva.js
Eva.js is a front-end game engine for creating interactive projects
A front-end game engine specifically for creating interactive game projects. Eva.js provides out-of-box game components for developers to use right away. Yes, it's simple and elegant! Eva.js is powered by efficient runtime and rendering pipeline (Pixi.JS) which makes it possible to unleash the full potential of your device. Thanks to the ECS(Entity-Component-System) structure, you can expand your needs by highly customizable APIs. The only limitation is your imagination! Eva.js relies on canvas in HTML for drawing. If the width and height in the design draft are fixed (for example, 750px*1000px) and occupy the full screen, we can set the CSS width of the canvas to 100% and the height to auto. -
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LayaAir3.0
LayaAir is an open-source 2D/3D engine
The LayaAir engine is a game engine brand under Layabox . The LayaAir engine not only supports 2D, 3D, AR, VR and other types of game development but also can be used in advertising, marketing, education and other fields. In addition to the release of the HTML5 version, it also supports the release of Native-APP, WeChat mini-games, QQ mini-games, Baidu mini-games, Bilibili mini-games, Douyin mini-games, Toutiao mini-games, Alipay mini-games, OPPO mini-games, and vivo mini-games. Games, Xiaomi Quick Games, Huawei Quick Games, and other platforms. -
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melonJS
A fresh & lightweight javascript game engine
melonJS is an open-source HTML5 game engine that empowers developers and designers to focus on content. The framework provides a collection of composable entities and support for a number of third-party tools. Giving you a powerful combination that can be used wholesale or piecemeal. melonJS is a lightweight yet powerful HTML5 framework designed from the ground up to provide a true plugin-free 'write-once, run-everywhere' gaming platform. melonJS is an open-source project and supported by a community of enthusiasts. See our Gallery for a few examples of games powered by melonJS. melonJS integrates the popular Tiled map format, allowing designers easily create levels using the Tiled map editor, and to focus on the game features itself. A fresh and lightweight 2D sprite-based engine. Fast WebGL renderer for desktop and mobile devices with fallback to Canvas rendering. -
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PhpSgeX 3 IS COMING! This is an engine for creating a php browser game, like ikariam, travian and ogame. Whit mysql database!!! You can create your own strategy game without knowing PHP and MySql! PhpSgeX has different templates, translations and plugins! It's 100% customizable!
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Ever had that perfect plot idea for an RPG but didn't have the programming knowledge to create it? Enter Sphere. Sphere is a console-style RPG engine that allows others to create an RPG similar to Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, or Phantasy Star.
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JavaScript game engine focused on 2D multi-player (networked) games. The idea is to provide a tool for learning by writing computer games. EGachine is based upon a extensible JavaScript shell (EJS) and modules providing functionality for writing games.
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FGGE is an HTML 5 + Javascript Game Engine allowing users to make games without worrying about render, but only on code and game logics, this means faster production and cleaner code.
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Mire Engine
2D Game Engine
A Cross Platform 2d Rpg Game Engine for mobile and Console. -
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JavaScript Graphic Adventure Maker
Javascript adventure game engine
JSGAM is an open source Javascript game engine focused on classic graphical point-and-click adventure games. The project is being rewritten from scratch. The new code can be found now in Github (https://github.com/kreezii/jsgam). -
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DimensioneX Multiplayer Game Engine
Free MMORPG Engine. Develop and host graphical browser-based games.
DimensioneX is a free Massive Multiplayer Game Engine. It lets you develop and then run or host browser-based, graphical multiplayer games. The users will play games simply via their browser. DimensioneX runs on any Java-enabled web server (eg. Tomcat) -
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Another Javascript Game Engine
Simple and scalable 3d javascript game engine
Simple and scalable 3d javascript game engine. * Scalability: GameObjects, SceneGameObjects, Modules and Components. * Graphics: ThreeJS. * Physics: Microphysics (Module) or JigLibJS (Module). * Audio: - -
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Canvas Game Engine (CGE) is a library entirely written in JavaScript that allows for rapid creation of two-dimensional games by utilizing the new canvas element introduced with the HTML5 standard.
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Crafty JS
JavaScript Game Engine
Crafty is a JavaScript game engine focused on helping developers build structured, modular 2D HTML5 games that run smoothly in modern browsers. It uses an entity-component system that lets you compose game objects from reusable components instead of relying on inheritance, making game logic easier to organize and maintain. Crafty supports event binding for custom events, so objects can react to game actions, collisions, input, and timers in a clean, decoupled fashion, which helps scale complexity as your game grows. Developers can choose between Canvas or DOM rendering for flexibility in how game elements are drawn, and its lightweight footprint means it won’t slow down load times or performance in most browser environments. The engine is designed to be small and approachable, with enough built-in components for common tasks like movement, collisions, keyboard input, and animations, while still being flexible enough to let developers write their own systems when needed. -
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Lynx.js
A lightweight HTML5 Game Engine
Lynx is a lightweight HTML5 game engine designed to be extremely versatile while maximizing performance. Lynx is made up of separate modules that can be enabled or disabled for each game and can be used to create almost any type of game you'd like. Currently in early stages of development, Lynx is developed by a small team of students with the goal of learning more about game development. Currently, Lynx is not ready for release but we're working hard in our downtime to get it to that point! -
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The OpenRTSS project aims at producing a free game engine for making "Real-Time Strategy Shooters". The engine is written using Unity for simplicity and fast development.
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The Phantom Engine is a JavaScript Game Engine for HTML5 MMORPGs.
