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About

BUILDNANA is a JavaScript library that helps you make games fast and fun! With an easy API and a focus on games, you can create games quickly without writing many lines of code.

BUILDNANAGROUND is the official playground of BUILDNANA, where you can test our examples and learn how to use BUILDNANA.

Features

Creation of levels using ASCII maps.
An ECS (Entity Component System) architecture.
A powerful event system.
Arcade physics, fast and simple.
A bunch of examples to get you started quickly here.
A large community of developers who create plugins and share them with the community.
Fully compatible with the previous v3000 library.

The backstory

On 21 May 2024 we took the decision to create this spiritual successor of the original library, being also a fork of it.

This was due to the original project being abandoned by its creator, and the community was left without a maintainer.

The idea is to expand what the engine was under a new identity, BUILDNANA itself is fully compatible with the previous project.

The name is BUILDNANA, a play on the word “build” and the word “banana”, it’s written in all caps, BUILDNANA, not BuildNana or Buildnana (in mixed case). Anyway buildnana (lowercase) is also acceptable.

BUILDNANA banner (webp animation)