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Web Game Engine Review 2023 Part 2 - Test Projects

Sun, 14 Jan 2024 10:02:04 -0700

This is part 2 of a series of articles evaluating web game engines. In part 1 I reviewed engine sizes.

Engines

For the next and last phase of evaluation, I selected the following engines:

Test requirements

I want to make sure the engine supports the features I will be using for the project. These include:

Web Game Engine Size Review 2023

Fri, 01 Sep 2023 10:02:04 -0700

In July 2023 I was looking for an engine that supported 2D rendering, ran in a web browser, worked on mobile, and had a minimum runtime payload size of less than 500kb.

Why this size? On the web, size costs time (time to download), and for folks on cellular data plans, it takes a part of their monthly budget. Plus, serving data from your website to people technically costs money (egress costs). While it seems almost free in small amounts, if you have a lot of traffic, it can add up.

Web Game Engine Size Review 2023 - Preview

Thu, 27 Jul 2023 10:02:04 -0700

Here is a preview of an article series I am writing about evaluating web game engines. I was looking for an engine that supported 2D rendering, ran in a web browser, worked on mobile, and had a minimum runtime payload size of less than 500kb.

Why this size? On the web, size costs time (time to download), and for folks on cellular data plans, it takes a part of their monthly budget. Plus, serving data from your website to people technically costs money (these are called “egress” costs). While it seems almost free in small amounts, if you have a lot of traffic, it can add up.

Initial codeheart.js impressions

Thu, 27 Dec 2012 10:00:04 +0000

I’ve been meaning to get some experience with building web-based games - at Eruptive Games I worked on Citizen Grim, a Flash-based web game, but the ’new hotness’ is HTML5. Which as far as I can tell just means modern browser + Javascript stuff. Also the promise of write-once, deploy on any modern PC browser (Windows/OSX/Linux), or any mobile browser is a naive but attractive one 🙂 Anyways, I started looking around at ‘HTML5 game engines’ to play around without getting stuck on basic building-blocks kind of stuff.