Phaser vs PixiJS for making 2D games

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PixiJS Landing Page
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PixiJS

Fast and flexible WebGL-based HTML5 game and app development library.
Pricing:
- Open Source
Phaser and PixiJS are popular open-source JavaScript WebGL libraries that are used to create 2D browser games. They render graphics inside an HTML canvas element. Games can be developed using JavaScript or TypeScript. These libraries use WebGL for creating high-performance, complex visual effects. You can create simple browser games using vanilla JavaScript, but if you want to have performant rendering or advanced features in your game such as physics or realistic lighting, vanilla JavaScript is not a good choice. These libraries speed up game development by providing useful functionality and they improve performance.

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Phaser Landing Page
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Phaser

Desktop and Mobile HTML5 game framework. A fast, free and fun open source framework for Canvas and WebGL powered browser games.
Pricing:
- Open Source
Phaser and PixiJS are popular open-source JavaScript WebGL libraries that are used to create 2D browser games. They render graphics inside an HTML canvas element. Games can be developed using JavaScript or TypeScript. These libraries use WebGL for creating high-performance, complex visual effects. You can create simple browser games using vanilla JavaScript, but if you want to have performant rendering or advanced features in your game such as physics or realistic lighting, vanilla JavaScript is not a good choice. These libraries speed up game development by providing useful functionality and they improve performance.

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Pixi Particles Landing Page

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Pixi Particles

A particle system for PixiJS. Contribute to pixijs/pixi-particles development by creating an account on GitHub.

PixiJS and Phaser have basic animation functionality for sprite sheet animation, tweens for smooth animation and they have particle systems to create effects such as an explosion. The particle system needs to be installed as a separate library for PixiJS.

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Apache Cordova Landing Page
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Apache Cordova

Platform for building native mobile applications using HTML, CSS and JavaScript
Pricing:
- Open Source
Browser games can be played on desktop or mobile devices; they may also be compiled to native mobile apps by using third-party tools such as Cordova. It's important that your 2D game has a responsive layout. Phaser has a Scale Manager that handles scaling, resizing, and alignment; it also has a full-screen mode. When using PixiJS, you need to create a responsive layout manually. This can be tricky with more complex layouts.

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