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Not saying this isn't awesome... but don't there seem to be more HTML5/Javascript engines/libraries/toolkits than there are actual decent products or games?

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The problem is, none of the engines so far even come close to the quality of decent game engines on other platforms. They've all got seriously rough edges, bugs, missing features, etc., to a point where there's not even a clear winner yet where further community development efforts get funneled.

Until there's a clear "winner" in the space, I'm happy to see more engines come out, maybe one of them will finally get close enough to a general purpose game engine that it will see some community involvement.

What are your thoughts on impactjs? I know it's not a general purpose game engine, but I'm just curious to see what people think it's missing. A lot, I'm sure, in terms of general purpose gaming, but how could it be improved for it's target games; tile-based platformers and top-downs?

I've created a couple of games with ImpactJS and have really enjoyed it. I think it's great for tile-based platformer games in particular. But (with enough programming skill), you can bend it to make virtually any type of 2D game. The code is very well thought out and organized. It's a pleasure to work with generally. Haven't used any of the other HTML5 engines though.

EaselJS is pretty good. It's not a winner yet, but, it's pretty solid and scales well.

Yes, that's my impression as well.

I wanted something minimalistic and clean, without any dependencies. And I didn't want yet another "classes for JS"-pattern forced on me.

JawsJS is really picking up speed now, I know quite some ppl that used it for the last Ludum Dare.

Check out Chromes web app store's game section. There are some amazing games being built with html5/js.

It is still early, their day will come.

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