gameQuery

This is a jQuery plug-in to help make JavaScript games easier to develop by adding some simple mechanisms and commodity.

Some demos of JavaScript driven-games are presented in the downloads section.

Features:

• Multi layer-sprite animations
• Sprite hierarchies (grouping)
• Collision detection
• Swappable sound support
• Periodic callbacks
• Keyboard state polling
• Free and open source license
• Be easy to learn and use
• Stick closely to jQuery philosophy
• Be fast enough on most modern browsers
• Allow a beginner to write a rich 2D game

Requirements:

• JavaScript enabled on client side
• jQuery

Limitations:

• It's still in an early stage of development and may change a lot in future versions.