Gloop

Game loop framework for building tiny games. Philosophy is to keep the plugins and utilities small and discrete, so that only the dependencies required for the unique use cases of each game are included.

Core Class

A class that can construct a game instance and handle plugins, state, events, and game loops for logic and paints.

Plugins

Game functionality can be extended with plugins.

name	description
debug	Logs events and adds an overlay for game controls and stats.
localStore	Persists game state to browser local storage.
pauseWhenHidden	Pause the game when the window loses visibility (tab switch)
scene	Define scenes with setup/teardown functions to organize game flow
sprites	Keep track of active objects, including positions within a grid

Utilities

Some helpful tools that may be used by plugins or useful for game building.

name	description
$dom	jQuery like utility for dom manipulation
assertNumber	Check for numbers, fix floating point discrepancies
asyncBackground	Async/await for inline functions running in web workers
Canvas	Wrapper for HTML canvas elements
color	Functions for manipulating and converting colors
loop	Basic function for timing loops and requestAnimationFrame
makeGuid	Factory for globally unique identifiers
makeNoise	Factory for generating perflin and fractal noise
makeRandom	Factory for generating psuedo random numbers
vector	Functions for vector math and operations

Demos

A few examples of different ways that Gloop can be used.

name	description
bloop	Simple physics simulation with colliding balls
maze	Simple maze based game
noise	Demo page using noise generation and workers
tictactoe	the game
zap	tbd