tl;dr Breakouts is to JavaScript game engines what TodoMVC is to JavaScript MV* frameworks.
There are a lot of JavaScript game engines out there, the JavaScript wiki lists over 80 of them. This project is an attempt to get some insight into the engines out there. This was done by implementing a simple version of the game Breakout in various engines. With the implementations in hand, you can compare and contrast and play with the engines to help get a feel for whether you like them or not.
So far we have Breakout implementations for
Yup, just three so far, this project is pretty young.
The Breakouts generally look like this:
and feature:
- player input (mouse for desktop, touch for mobile)
- frame animation
- scene transitions (menus, game over, etc)
- sound effects
- hit detection
- text rendering
- tiled backgrounds
All of the Breakouts are up and playable at this project's website
If you would like to contribute a Breakout implementation, great! Please head over to the implementation guidelines to get started.
All of the various engines have their own licenses, but the Breakout code itself (and the resources) is MIT licensed. Generally speaking, feel free to do whatever you want with it.
Thanks to Addy Osmani, Sindre Sorhus and everyone else involved with TodoMVC for the idea and inspiration