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melonJS


melonJS 2 is a modern version of the melonJS game engine that was first released in 2011. It has been rebuilt entirely using ES6 class, inheritance and semantic, and bundled using Rollup to provide modern features such as transpiling and tree-shaking.

Note: migrating an existing project to melonJS 2 (version 10.0 and higher) will definitely break your game (ES6 semantic and inheritance, nodeJS event emitter, and no backward compatibility with deprecated legacy APIs), and you might want to read first this small step by step guide on upgrading to melonJS 2. If you are looking at the legacy version (9.x and lower) of melonJS, you can find it here under the legacy branch.

melonJS is open-source, licensed under the MIT License, and actively developed and maintained with the help of a small team of enthusiasts at AltByte in Singapore.

About melonJS

melonJS is a fully featured game engine :

Compatibility

  • Standalone library (does not rely on anything else, except a HTML5 capable browser)
  • Compatible with all major browsers (Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Opera, Edge) and mobile devices

Graphics

  • 2D sprite-based graphic engine
  • Blazing Fast WebGL renderer for desktop and mobile devices with fallback to Canvas rendering
  • High DPI resolution & Canvas advanced auto scaling
  • Sprite with 9-slice scaling option, and animation management
  • built-in effects such as tinting and masking
  • Standard spritesheet, single and multiple Packed Textures support
  • System & Bitmap Text

Sound

  • Web Audio support with spatial audio or stereo panning based on Howler
  • fallback to Multi-channel HTML5 audio for legacy browsers

Physic

  • Polygon (SAT) based collision algorithm for accurate detection and response
  • Fast Broad-phase collision detection using spatial partitioning
  • Collision filtering for optimized automatic collision detection

Input

  • Mouse and Touch device support (with mouse emulation)
  • Device motion & accelerometer support

Level Editor

  • Tiled map format version +1.0 built-in support for easy level design
    • Uncompressed and compressed Plain, Base64, CSV and JSON encoded XML tilemap loading
    • Orthogonal, Isometric and Hexagonal maps (both normal and staggered)
    • Multiple layers (multiple background/foreground, collision and Image layers)
    • Animated and multiple Tileset support
    • Tileset transparency settings
    • Layers alpha and tinting settings
    • Rectangle, Ellipse, Polygon and Polyline objects support
    • Tiled Objects
    • Flipped & rotated Tiles
    • Dynamic Layer and Object/Group ordering
    • Dynamic Entity loading
    • Shape based Tile collision support

Assets

  • Asynchronous asset loading
  • A fully customizable preloader

And Also

  • A state manager (to easily manage loading, menu, options, in-game state)
  • Tween Effects, Transition effects
  • Pooling support for object recycling
  • Basic Particle System
  • nodeJS EventEmitter based event system

Tools integration

melonJS is supporting the below tools and frameworks natively or through our official plugin(s) :

Free Texture Packer TexturePacker PhysicsEditor ShoeBox Tiled Cordova Spine aseprite


Tools integration and usage with melonJS is documented in our Wiki.

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