Pancake

Lightweight, Fast, Easy-to-use HTML5 2D game framework!

Pancake is successor of Cake game engine, Which can be found here, But no longer maintained!

Pancake inspired by LOVE, Pygame, And even AppGameKit and it shares some of their concepts...

Features

• Shares concepts of most lovable frameworks like LOVE, Pygame, And AppGameKit!
• Easy and simple to setup!
• Free, Moddable, Open-Source, Cross-Platform!
• Fast, Very lightweight, And very thin in one file!
• Every part needed is written without dependencies! From OS detection to gamepad support...
• You can use CanvasRenderingContext2D or WebGLRenderingContext as graphics renderer!
• Collision detection physics!
• Audio based on HTMLAudio API!
• Video rendering support!
• Replay rewind support!
• Spritefonts and Sprites support!
• Have plugins can be used like WASM, FBInstant, And more...
• Written in plain JavaScript (Vanilla JavaScript) to support browsers that can't run modern JavaScript! (Internet Explorer for example)
• Supports Haxe via Pancake.hx
• Using indexes (Slots), Which can be good for ordering sometimes, And gives easy control of game content!
• Optimized for js13kGames game jam!

Want to know a lot? See the documentation

Also check out our Discord server here

Examples

• Creating a game canvas

// Create canvas with both width and height of 600, And set it's index to 0
pancake.canvas.create(600, 600, 0);

// Create context with index 0 and set to use canvas that has index 0
// And set graphics to use context with index 0
pancake.context.create(0, 0);
pancake.graphics.useContext(0);

• Drawing text

// Create canvas with both width and height of 600, And set it's index to 0
pancake.canvas.create(600, 600, 0);

// Create context with index 0 and set to use canvas that has index 0
// And set graphics to use context with index 0
pancake.context.create(0, 0);
pancake.graphics.useContext(0);

// We can set font and it's size in pixels
pancake.graphics.setFont("Arial", 22);

// Draw text
pancake.graphics.text("Hello Pancake", 10, 10);

• Drawing shapes

// Create canvas with both width and height of 600, And set it's index to 0
pancake.canvas.create(800, 800, 0);

// Create context with index 0 and set to use canvas that has index 0
// And set graphics to use context with index 0
pancake.context.create(0, 0);
pancake.graphics.useContext(0);

// Draw rectangle with red color
pancake.graphics.color(pancake.graphics.RGB(255, 0, 0));
pancake.graphics.rect(100, 100, 50, 50);

// Draw circle with radius of 50 and orange color
pancake.graphics.color(pancake.graphics.RGB(255, 165, 0));
pancake.graphics.circle(200, 200, 50);

// Draw line with width of 5 and yellow color
pancake.graphics.color(pancake.graphics.RGB(255, 255, 0));
pancake.graphics.line(100, 100, 200, 200, 5);

// Set drawing mode to stroke
pancake.graphics.mode = pancake.graphics.STROKE;

// Draw triangle with green color
pancake.graphics.color(pancake.graphics.RGB(0, 255, 0));
pancake.graphics.triangle(500, 50, 600, 50, 500, 150);

// Draw polygon with 6 sides and blue color
pancake.graphics.color(pancake.graphics.RGB(0, 0, 255));

pancake.graphics.polygon(100, 300, 50, 6);

• Playing Audio

// When audio loaded, Play it directly
pancake.audio.play("game.mp3");

// Load audio file to index 0
pancake.audio.load("loaded.mp3", 0);

// Plays loaded.mp3
pancake.audio.playFromIndex(0);

// Pauses loaded.mp3
pancake.audio.pause(0);

// Resumes loaded.mp3
pancake.audio.playFromIndex(0);

• Saving variables

// Save score to localStorage variable "score"
pancake.storage.save("score", Number(0));

// Load it,It gives score value which is 0
var score = Number(pancake.storage.load("score"));

• Physics + Game Loop

var playercolor = pancake.graphics.RGB(0, 0, 255);

// Use a HTML <canvas> tags that has ID "canvas"
// And set index of the context that will use it to 0
pancake.context.use(document.getElementById("canvas"), 0);

// Create 2 rectangles objects
var rect1 = { x: 100, y: 100, w: 50, h: 50 };
var rect2 = { x: 125, y: 125, w: 50, h: 50 };

function game() {
    // Clear canvas
    pancake.graphics.clear();

    // Draw first rectangle
    pancake.graphics.color(playercolor);
    pancake.graphics.rect(rect1.x, rect1.y, rect1.w, rect1.h);
    
    // Draw second rectangle
    pancake.graphics.color(pancake.graphics.RGB(0, 255, 0));
    pancake.graphics.rect(rect2.x, rect2.y, rect2.w, rect2.h);

    // Check collision between both 2 rectangles
    // If true then change color of first rectangle
    // Else then reset it's color to the default color
    if (pancake.physics.checkCollisionRecs(rect1.x, rect1.y, rect1.w, rect1.h, rect2.x, rect2.y, rect2.w, rect2.h)) {
        playercolor = pancake.graphics.RGB(255, 0, 0);
    } else {
        playercolor = pancake.graphics.RGB(0, 0, 255);
    }   
}

var gameloop = pancake.timers.timer(game, 60); // Set frames per second to 60

• Keyboard + Game Loop

function game() {
    // If key down
    if (pancake.input.keydown(pancake.input.key.X)) alert("Key down/press");

    // If key up
    if (pancake.input.keyup(pancake.input.key.C)) alert("Key up");

    // Needed to prevent input loop
    pancake.input.preventLoop();
}

var gameloop = pancake.timers.timer(game, 60); // Set frames per second to 60

NOTE: More examples can be found in the Examples folder

Build

Build using Python:

mkdir pancake
cd pancake
git clone https://github.com/Rabios/Pancake.git
python build.py

A folder named build will created (if not exist) in the repository folders, Containing pancake.js, Which is the full build.

For more info about building Pancake see here.

License

MIT License

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