aeristhy/kaboom

💥 JavaScript game library

Kaboom.js is a JavaScript library that helps you make games fast and fun!

Check out our official website!

Example

<script src="https://kaboomjs.com/lib/0.5.1/kaboom.js"></script>
<script type="module">

// initialize kaboom context
const k = kaboom();

// define a scene
k.scene("main", () => {

	// add a text at position (100, 100)
	k.add([
		k.text("ohhimark", 32),
		k.pos(100, 100),
	]);

});

// start the game
k.start("main");

</script>

You can paste this directly into an html file and start playing around!

Usage

cdn

1. self hosted

<script src="https://kaboomjs.com/lib/0.5.1/kaboom.js"></script>

All available version tags can be found in CHANGELOG.md, or Github releases.

Special Version Tags:

• dev: current master with the newest unreleased features / fixes, but not guaranteed to be stable
• latest: latest release

2. third party

kaboom is on npm thus supported by most js lib CDN providers

<script src="https://unpkg.com/kaboom@0.5.1/dist/kaboom.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/kaboom@0.5.0/dist/kaboom.js"></script>

When imported in the browser, the script will expose a global kaboom function to initialize a kaboom context, returning an object containing all the functions

const k = kaboom();

k.init();
k.scene(...);
k.start(...);

You can also import all functions to the global namespace by giving a global flag

kaboom({
	global: true,
});

init();
scene(...);
start(...);

Kaboom also provide ES module and commonJS module exports with .mjs and .cjs, e.g,

import kaboom from "https://kaboomjs.com/lib/0.5.1/kaboom.mjs";

npm package

$ npm install kaboom

// main.ts
import kaboom, { Vec2, GameObj, } from "kaboom";
import asepritePlugin from "kaboom/plugins/aseprite";

const k = kaboom({
	plugins: [ asepritePlugin, ],
});

function spawnBullet(p: Vec2): GameObj {
	return k.add([
		k.pos(p),
		k.sprite("bullet"),
	]);
}

also works with cjs

const kaboom = require("kaboom");

Dev

1. npm run dev to watch & build lib
2. go to http://localhost:8000/examples
3. edit examples in examples/ to test
4. make sure not to break any existing examples

Misc

• Featured on Console 50
• Shoutout to Umayr for kindly offering the "kaboom" npm package name