bberak/react-native-game-engine
React Native Game Engine
React Native Game Engine is a framework for building 2D interactive experiences and simulations within mobile applications. It provides a dedicated controller for managing a fixed-step game loop, ensuring that game logic, user inputs, and state updates occur at a consistent frame rate.
The engine utilizes an entity-component-system architecture to decouple game object data from behavior. By structuring objects as independent entities processed by reusable logic functions, it allows for the management of complex scenes through a centralized, data-driven approach.
The framework supports the creation of dynamic, cross-platform user interfaces by leveraging native components for rendering while maintaining game state within the JavaScript thread. It includes a message bus for dispatching events between internal systems and external components, facilitating communication across the interactive scene.
Features
- React Native Game Frameworks - Provides a framework for building interactive 2D games and simulations within mobile applications.
- Game Loops - Manages simulation updates at a consistent frame rate for smooth performance in mobile environments.
- Entity Component Systems - Structures game objects as decoupled data entities processed by reusable logic functions.
- Game Loop Updates - Runs a recurring update cycle to process game logic, user inputs, and state changes.
- Fixed-Timestep Loops - Executes game logic and state updates at a constant interval to ensure predictable simulation timing.
- Cross-Platform Frameworks - Facilitates the creation of 2D interactive experiences that run natively on mobile devices.
- Game State Management - Updates active entities dynamically during runtime to support real-time object manipulation.
- Event Bus Systems - Provides a centralized message bus for decoupled communication between internal game systems.
- Declarative State Managers - Maintains a centralized, mutable state object that synchronizes entity properties across frames.
- Cross-Platform UI Frameworks - Enables the creation of dynamic, responsive user interfaces across mobile platforms.
- Cross-Platform Native Renderers - Maps declarative game object definitions to native platform views for rendering.
