Playground.js - Essential framework for javascript gamedevelopers.

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What is Playground.js?

Playground.js is a game oriented javascript framework that gives you access to essentials like mouse, keyboard, sound and well designed architecture. The rest is up to you. Whether you prefer to roll your own physics library or use Box2D - playground will not get in your way.

download Template project with <canvas> based renderer

download Template without any renderer.

download Standalone on GitHub

What does it do?

At the very core it provides out-of-box surface with all essential events.

playground({

  width: 640,
  height: 480,
  scale: 2,

  create: function() { },
  ready: function() { },
  resize: function() { },

  step: function(dt) { },
  render: function() { },

  keydown: function(data) { },
  keyup: function(data) { },

  mousedown: function(data) { },
  mouseup: function(data) { },
  mousemove: function(data) { },

  touchstart: function(data) { },
  touchend: function(data) { },
  touchmove: function(data) { },

  gamepaddown: function(data) { },
  gamepadup: function(data) { },
  gamepadmove: function(data) { }

});

new PLAYGROUND.Application(...);

What else?

Optional basics like sound, states, canvas, easing, tweening and loaders

The goal is to provide a framework that:

Takes care of basic APIs
Lets developer use his own solutions for physics, collisions, entities...
Makes a good base regarding both prototyping and scalability
Provides sane defaults out-of-box

Target platforms:

Games in cutting edge browsers
Games on desktop with NW.js

It is especially for you if:

You spend more and more time bending some engine to your will rather than implementing what you need.
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