criting Posted May 9, 2015 Share Posted May 9, 2015 Hello everyone. I want to get involved with web game developing, but I'm confused about which framework to use. I'm thinking between EaselJS, pixi.js or Phaser but I don't know which one. I checked their websites but I still can't decide. Can anyone tell me which one is better and why? Thank you in advance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rich Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 Phaser is a game framework. Easel and Pixi are rendering / display APIs. So if you're already familiar with writing all the bits needed to handle the game framework side of it (collision, state management, animation, asset caching, audio playback, etc) then you could comfortably just pick between those two and see which one you prefer. Personally I'd go for Pixi because it supports WebGL (Easel doesn't yet) and has a lot of game friendly features that you could take advantage of. It also has much cleaner internal code, but that's just my opinion. Easel on the other hand has much better documentation and if you need to export animations from Flash it comes into its own there. I'm sure others will throw in their own comments too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
druphoria Posted May 11, 2015 Share Posted May 11, 2015 Pick Phaser if you want to start making games as quickly as possible. Pick one of the other two if you want to build the game engine from the ground up and spend a much longer time developing your game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
criting Posted May 11, 2015 Author Share Posted May 11, 2015 Thanks. And what do you think about Quintus? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
venomdev Posted May 15, 2015 Share Posted May 15, 2015 I'm only new to the site so I don't know if it's supported here but I was forced to use cocos2d-html5 because I was building on someone else's work and I'm pretty happy with it's capabilities. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
druphoria Posted May 15, 2015 Share Posted May 15, 2015 Thanks. And what do you think about Quintus? I've never tried it or looked into it at all. I just picked Phaser right off the bat because there is such an abundance of learning resources for it, and because the community is so helpful. I've been able to find an answer for nearly every question I've had about Phaser just by googling, looking around on the forums, or looking in the docs/source code. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
criting Posted May 16, 2015 Author Share Posted May 16, 2015 I've never tried it or looked into it at all. I just picked Phaser right off the bat because there is such an abundance of learning resources for it, and because the community is so helpful. I've been able to find an answer for nearly every question I've had about Phaser just by googling, looking around on the forums, or looking in the docs/source code. Thanks, but honestly I didn't find Phaser that good, I found a lot of free source codes, yet, there are a lot, but I didn't find any good explained tutorials. So I picked Panda now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rich Posted May 17, 2015 Share Posted May 17, 2015 Not that I care less what you use - but to say you couldn't find any well explained Phaser tutorials means you didn't really look at all. druphoria and Segger 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rudrabhoj Bhati Posted May 17, 2015 Share Posted May 17, 2015 If you don't love JavaScript too much, have a look into Haxe world too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
criting Posted May 17, 2015 Author Share Posted May 17, 2015 Not that I care less what you use - but to say you couldn't find any well explained Phaser tutorials means you didn't really look at all. I did look, as I said I found only source codes. I don't say there are not tutorials, I'm saying that I couldn't find them. @Harsh Bhati - Thanks, I will give it a look. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rich Posted May 17, 2015 Share Posted May 17, 2015 I did look, as I said I found only source codes. I don't say there are not tutorials, I'm saying that I couldn't find them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
criting Posted May 17, 2015 Author Share Posted May 17, 2015 I don't find these tutorials as well explained. p.s. I'm taking about the free ones. Well, never mind, I already chosed a framework. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rich Posted May 17, 2015 Share Posted May 17, 2015 Everything listed there is free. The irony is of course the fact you chose a framework with probably the least amount of tutorials out of any of them. But there we go. For the sake of anyone else reading this thread: there are hundreds and hundreds of Phaser tutorials out there. Lots of them extremely well explained and very well written. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icp Posted May 17, 2015 Share Posted May 17, 2015 I don't find these tutorials as well explained. p.s. I'm taking about the free ones. Well, never mind, I already chosed a framework.Just in case :http://www.emanueleferonato.com/category/phaser/http://phaser.io/examples/v2/category/gameshttp://gamemechanicexplorer.com/http://phaser.io/learn/official-tutorialshttp://phaser.io/learn/community-tutorialshttp://pgl.ilinov.eu/http://www.lessmilk.com/phaser-tutorial/https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Games/Workflows/HTML5_Gamedev_Phaser_Device_Orientationhttp://gamedevelopment.tutsplus.com/articles/how-to-learn-the-phaser-html5-game-engine--gamedev-13643http://gamedevelopment.tutsplus.com/tutorials/getting-started-with-phaser-building-monster-wants-candy--cms-21723https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/how-to-make-a-mobile-virtual-pet-game-with-html5-and-cordova Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enpu Posted May 20, 2015 Share Posted May 20, 2015 I would also pick Phaser, if you are looking for framework with lots of free tutorials Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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