JavaScript Game Engines

In the ongoing Game Engine language series, today we cover the JavaScript game engine. We will look at 2d and 3d game engines and frameworks that uses the Javascript language for game logic scripting.

We have already covered C#, C++, Lua and Haxe programming languages.

Currently covered engines:

[purplelops]

Hello everybody, it's Mike here at Gamefromscratch!

[radicalleaf]

This is by far the best video on this topic I have seen! I could tell, on most of the (very) many covered, you know what you were talking about! You earned a sub with this one ;)

[kamelmohammad]

the answer to every question I have is in one of your videos, Thank you so much Mike you are awsome

[gamingwithmaysam]

Hey Mike, I have a suggestion you should probably do Java game engines. Many people LOVE Java and it really would be useful to have this type of video.

[dagumak]

Is there a 2022 updated version of this video?

[alexkowel]

Awesome video! I just have a minor comment: we didn't "stole" NASA, they simply migrated from our previous Blend4Web project to Verge3D.

[MaxUnch]

Wow Awesome! I love web games and this personal list is amazing!
Thank you for all!

[anandupavanan]

There are pretty good Chinese engines both 3D and 2D such as layaair and egret(which are used heavily in Chinese gaming market).They are open source too.

[aniruddhashevle]

What you choose phaser or cocos? and why?

[jarrod]

I think V-play's strategy has more to do with getting you started and then selling you a license when you are ready to launch (to get rid of that splash screen :D)

[brandonjacksoon]

Thank you for the video!)) Really interesting theme for me.

[noicehockey]

Thank you for this great video/ Seems like I am about to land my first job as a JS indie games developer. Can you advice any roadmap regarding this area?

[anarchoyeasty]

Since this became a series, and you mentioned some frameworks in the haxe series, would you be open to doing some videos on more code centric game engines/frameworks?

[volitionant]

But how many of of these are actually game engines? Most of these seem to be just frameworks or libraries

[tayloraustin]

In your opinion which JS engine is best for small/medium/large. Which is the fastest and which can compete with the biggest engines like Unity/Unreal. It's not that I don't want to use those, I just don't really want to learn c#. Anyone with experience with these engines is welcome to share your opinion!

[ibrahemfb]

Would You do it again ..it's 3 years. thank you

[XxNGameCubexX]

I appreciate that you attempted to provide a list of game frameworks, but it's not very helpful to mention a framework (like melonJs) if you don't have experience with it. Perhaps focus on the ones you do have experience with, and give a more detailed comparison.

[phobos_]

Would you consider doing more in-depth videos about choosing a game engine for various purposes? Basically like that Unity video you made but more.

[mshahmirkhan]

I’m deciding JS gaming engine please suggest me an engine with reason

[BolczykBolczyk]

How about the Superpowers game maker/engine? It actually uses TypeScript for programming (or Lua with LÖVE). Also, it's fully open source and comes with an editor.