KilledByAPixel / LittleJS Public

LittleJS is a super lightweight 2D JavaScript game engine with fast WebGL rendering. It was designed to be small, simple, and easy to use for a variety of applications from game jams to commercial releases. This engine has everything necessary to make high quality games including fast rendering, physics, particles, sound effects, music, keyboard/mouse/gamepad input handling, update/render loop, and debug tools. 🚂

It is recommended that you start by copying the LittleJS Starter Project This file is mostly empty with just a few things you can use to get started or remove. You can also download and include engine.all.js or engine.all.min.js.

In order to load files like images you will need to run a small web server like http-server on npm. I prefer to use an editor that does this for me automatically like Brackets or VS Code with the Live Server plugin.

To startup LittleJS, you must create 5 functions and pass them to engineInit. A canvas will automatically be created and added to the document. You can use this template to get started.

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