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ponczek

Deep-fried game framework with sweet filling.

🔋 Quickstart

npm create ponczek-game

🤔 Why?

I wanted something that would make it easier for me to create 2D games during game jams. This framework's design and future development reflects the type of games I like to make.

I've made this for myself, but anyone is welcome to use it. Expect breaking changes though.

👩‍💻 What it is?

Very opinionated
Software rendering
Easy to use with fantasy console-like API
Prioritizes performance over memory usage and bundle size
Tries really hard to avoid GC in game loop
Provides API that makes it easy to avoid GC in game loop
(almost) zero dependencies *
Easy to understand and extend code base

* Only uses minimal amount of high quality runtime dependencies that are in and of themselves no dependency libraries.

🙅‍♀️ What it is not?

Not made for high fidelity games
Not a fully featured game engine
Does not support mobile

🍩 Features

For example usage of these feature check out the demo page and its source.

2D software rendering
- Primitive shape rendering (lines, rectangles, circles)
- Drawing textures
- Drawing nine slices
- Drawing monospaced sprite fonts
- Color utilities
- Fragment shader-like effect system
  - Custom effects support
  - Built-in RGB filtering effect
  - Built-in color replacement effect
- Camera
- Spritesheets
- Clipping
- Allows dropping to browser's Canvas API for unsupported features
Simple sound effects player
Keyboard and mouse input system
- Supports binding
Math module
- Data structures and algorithms (Vector2, Rectangle)
- Random number generator
- Simplex noise generator
- A* pathfinding
GUI
- Grid component with keyboard navigation
Data structures
- Tilemap
- Priority queue (via heapify package)
Asset loader
Scene manager
- Stack based
- Scene transition animation system
Data storage for save data (uses localStorage)
Timers
ImGui integration