Red Locomotive

Give your games some tractive effort!

Introduction

Red Locomotive is an open source JavaScript game engine designed for complex 2d and/or isometric games. It give developers the tractive effort they need by abstracting complex systems like game loops, pixel/cursor based events, frame rate management, sprite rendering, animation, and much more.

Example

Controls

Use the arrow keys to navigate and the ESC key or switch to another tab to pause. Click anywhere in the window to resume.

Current Features

• Module system
• Sprite animation
• Movement animation
• Calculate coordinates via vectors
• Multiple independent viewports
• Viewport scrolling
• Full key and key combo bindings
• Improved trigonomic functions
• Collision Detection

Coming Soon

• Viewport and sprite shaders and filters
• Pathfinding
• Isometrics

Read the docs

Red Locomotive documentation.

Join The Community

Join the community and meet other developers

Join the Forum.

Note to Developers

Currently Red Locomotive is in heavy development. It is not ready for use. More information about Red Locomotive will be added here once there is something to play with.

Credits

Engine developed by Robert Hurst.

Sprites from the example above by Phil Welden.

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