JEST

Just another JavaScript game framework

Jest provides a way to rapidly create JavaScript (HTML5) games using the canvas element.

Jest's features include

• State system
• UI elements such as buttons, custom cursor, and text.
• Sprite sheet generation to cache rotations and animatins
• Animated sprites
• Parallax backgrounds
• Tilemaps
• Tiled Sprites
• Resource loading (supports images and sounds)
• Full featured particle engine
• Mouse and keyboard events.

Examples

Some projects using JEST

• Grapple Hero
• Death Match
• SOPA game
• Nbody sim

Things that still need to be done

• Finish examples (In progress)
• Create an example for each of the core features
• Better engine integration for collision handling