Forge

Forge is a browser-based, code-only game engine. It has everything you'd expect from an engine, including rendering, audio, input, animations, an Entity-Component-System (ECS) core, physics, and more.

Documentation · Demos

Getting started

npm install @forge-game-engine/forge

Add a <div id="game-container"></div> to your page, then create a game and render a sprite to it:

import { createGame } from '@forge-game-engine/forge/utilities';
import {
  addSpriteComponent,
  createImageSprite,
} from '@forge-game-engine/forge/rendering';
import { addPositionComponent } from '@forge-game-engine/forge/common';

const { game, world, renderContext } = createGame('game-container');

const image = await renderContext.imageCache.getOrLoad('sprite.png');
const sprite = createImageSprite(image, renderContext, 0);

const entity = world.createEntity();

addPositionComponent(world, entity);
addSpriteComponent(world, entity, sprite);

game.run();

See the Getting Started guide for a walkthrough of the above, and the ECS demo for a complete runnable example.

Want to contribute? See CONTRIBUTING.md for setup, verification steps, and commit/changelog conventions.

What the engine is

The engine is where all the code is stored that is usable for most types of games. For example: the renderer, audio systems, animations, mouse pointer, etc.

What the engine is not

The engine is not a place to store code that is hyper-specific to a game. For example: a system for collecting coins.

What if my system is specific to a particular genre?

You can make a separate folder or package outside of the engine.

Acknowledgements

• Howler.js
• Vite
• Kenny