Parts you can read. Games you can ship.

PlayForge is a TypeScript game engine for the browser, for 2D and 3D games, made from small parts you can read.

Try a wiki example Early and in active development.

Pocket GP: a yellow open-wheel kart on the start line of the Marina Loop, with palms, a harbour and five rivals ahead — Pocket GP, captured from the running game.

What is in the box.

38 packages in a pnpm monorepo, each with one job. A game takes the ones it needs.

Core: An entity component system with a fixed-timestep loop.
ECS
fixed-timestep loop
Rendering: Three.js for 3D, Pixi for 2D.
Three.js
Pixi
Physics: Rapier, in 2D and 3D.
Rapier 2D
Rapier 3D
Networking: A Colyseus-based layer. Self-hosting on a local network comes first.
Colyseus
LAN self-hosting
Controllers: Ready-made ways to move through a world.
third-person
first-person
top-down
platformer
vehicles
Gameplay: The pieces most games end up rewriting.
inventory
health
weapons
races
tower defense
trivia
Tools: An in-browser world editor, and a wiki with interactive examples of every component, so you always know what you have.

Cubies runs on it.

Cubies is our games shelf, from word puzzles to kart racing, played alone or around a shared table. Every game on it loads from the same PlayForge project format.

The Cubies crew of colourful cube characters around an arcade cabinet, a sofa and a signpost reading Play Together Brighter

A red kart with a cheering driver leading a pack on a checkered track — Pocket GP

A blue cube character dashing across a road between cars — Crossy Road

Cube characters watching a tower of glowing blocks rise — Stacker

Cube characters cheering over a table of glowing cards — Colour Run

Cube characters guessing a rocket drawn on an easel — Draw a Thing

A yellow cube character thinking in front of a letter grid — Wordle

Open Cubies

Cat-Astrophe in play: a giant ginger cat pouncing in a toy-like city, with a score of 08070 and a timer — Screenshot from the running game.

A whole game, on its own page.

Cat-Astrophe is built on PlayForge too. One to four giant cats destroy a tiny city and fight the police. Build the biggest damage bill in 150 seconds.

How it fits together.

Games sit on top. Everything underneath is a package you can swap, skip or read.

Gameswhat you ship

GamesCubies and the games on it

Partswhat you reuse

Gameplay componentsInventory, health, weapons, races

ControllersThird-person, first-person, vehicles

Systemswhat runs it

RendererThree.js for 3D, Pixi for 2D

PhysicsRapier, 2D and 3D

NetworkingColyseus, LAN first

Corewhat holds it up

ECS coreEntities and components, stepped by a fixed-timestep loop

Start in the wiki.

Each component has an interactive example next to its description. See what it does before you decide to use it.

wiki / gameplay componentssample, not the real wiki

Health 100 / 100

The farming game we are building.

A 3D, third-person, shared-world farming game. Play on a shared server with other people, or alone.

Farm.
Fish.
Mine.
Craft.
Build.
Raise pets.
Drive vehicles.
Trade.

Inventory and the third-person and vehicle controllers are the same engine packages listed above.

Multiplayer runs on the networking layer, which starts with servers you host yourself on a local network.

Where things stand.

PlayForge is early and in active development. Expect things to move and some parts to be unfinished.

In the repoThe 38 packages, the games, the world editor and the wiki.
Not offeredNo download, pricing or launch date. We may release it as open source later.
NetworkingLAN self-hosting comes first.