@nice2dev/game-engine

No-code game engine and editor for React — built on the nice2dev ecosystem.

Features

• No-code first — visual editors, drag & drop, node-based scripting
• ECS architecture — Entity-Component-System for flexible game logic
• 2D rendering — Canvas 2D & WebGL with camera, sprites, shapes, particles
• Physics — built-in 2D physics (colliders, rigid bodies, raycasting)
• Input — gamepad, keyboard, mouse, touch — full controller support
• Audio — Web Audio API: music, SFX, spatial audio, mixer channels
• Multiplayer — splitscreen, couch co-op, online (via @nice2dev/rtc)
• Templates — 25+ game genre templates ready to use
• AI — behavior trees, steering, FSM, GOAP, dialog trees
• 3D runtime — WebGL 3D world, physics, renderer
• i18n & Accessibility — multi-language, screen reader, colorblind modes

Installation

npm install @nice2dev/game-engine

Peer dependencies

npm install react react-dom @nice2dev/ui @nice2dev/ui-graphics

Quick Start

import { NiceGameEngine, WaveDefenseTemplate } from '@nice2dev/game-engine';

function MyGame() {
  return (
    <NiceGameEngine width={1280} height={720} maxPlayers={4}>
      <WaveDefenseTemplate />
    </NiceGameEngine>
  );
}

Game Templates

| Template | Genre | |----------|-------| | WaveDefenseTemplate | Tower defense / wave survival | | PlatformerTemplate | Side-scrolling platformer | | Match3Template | Match-3 puzzle | | RPGTemplate | Role-playing game | | RacingTemplate | Top-down racing | | ShooterTemplate | Shoot 'em up | | SandboxTemplate | Open-world sandbox | | + 18 more | Various genres |

Architecture

@nice2dev/game-engine
├── core/          — GameLoop, Clock, Config, ServiceLocator
├── ecs/           — Entity, Component, System, World
├── input/         — InputManager, Gamepad, Keyboard, Touch
├── audio/         — AudioManager, SoundPool, MusicPlayer
├── rendering/     — Renderer2D, Camera, Sprites, Particles
├── physics/       — Colliders, RigidBody, Raycasting
├── scene/         — Scene, SceneManager, Prefabs
├── ui/            — HUD, Menus, Dialogs, Focus
├── multiplayer/   — PlayerManager, SplitScreen
├── procedural/    — Random, Noise, Waves, Loot
├── templates/     — Genre templates (wave defense, platformer, ...)
├── ai/            — Behavior trees, steering, FSM, GOAP
├── 3d/            — World3D, Renderer3D, PhysicsWorld3D
└── editor/        — NiceGameEditor (no-code visual editor)

Editor

The NiceGameEditor provides a complete no-code visual editor with:

• Scene hierarchy and property inspector
• Tilemap editor
• Sprite animation editor
• Node-based visual scripting (NodeLibrary, GraphExecutor)
• Asset management
• Debug tools and performance profiling

import { NiceGameEditor } from '@nice2dev/game-engine';

<NiceGameEditor
  onSave={(project) => saveProject(project)}
  onExport={(bundle) => downloadBundle(bundle)}
/>

License

MIT © NiceToDev