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ggez vs PlayCanvas: What are the differences?
What is ggez? *Rust library to create a Good Game Easily *. It is a lightweight game framework for making 2D games with minimum friction. It aims to implement an API based on (a Rustified version of) the LÖVE game framework. Thus it contains portable 2D drawing, sound, resource loading and event handling.
What is PlayCanvas? Collaboratively build stunning HTML5 games and visualizations. It is an open-source 3D game engine/interactive 3D application engine alongside a proprietary cloud-hosted creation platform that allows for simultaneous editing from multiple computers via a browser-based interface.
ggez and PlayCanvas can be categorized as "Game Development" tools.
Some of the features offered by ggez are:
- Lightweight
- Cross-platform
- Game framework
On the other hand, PlayCanvas provides the following key features:
- Open source
- Tiny engine footprint
- Mobile optimized
ggez and PlayCanvas are both open source tools. It seems that PlayCanvas with 5.74K GitHub stars and 931 forks on GitHub has more adoption than ggez with 2.5K GitHub stars and 308 GitHub forks.