Glass is a framework for making ECS-based WebGL games in TypeScript, with a particular emphasis on retro game styles.
Glass is a work in progress, and not yet intended for general use.
Glass is broken up into the following sub-libraries:
@glass/core- General-purpose, core framework@glass/agate- General-purpose state management utilities@glass/onyx- General-purpose audio & chiptune utilities@glass/opal- General-purpose 2D graphical utilities@glass/coral- General-purpose 2D physics utilities@glass/zircon- Menu/selection/icon interaction modes@glass/topaz- Tile-based top-down interaction modes@glass/lapis- Tile-based isometric interaction modes@glass/pyrope- Tile-based side-scroller interaction modes@glass/manik- Bullet-hell-style interaction modes
Not all of these sub-libraries are actually built yet - they are only listed to reserve the names as they are planned. Other sub-libraries will have names based on other gemstones.
The design of Glass assumes the following assumptions (consistent with many retro-style games, and consistent with the preferences of speedrunners) that the game being built is:
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"frame-perfect", with all timing-dependent mechanisms being primarily based on the number of frames that have passed, rather than wall clock time.
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"deterministic", with all game-relevant random values being generated from pseudo-random number generator that uses seeds based on other non-random values in the game state.