May 01, 2025

Building Games in TypeScript | Erik Onarheim | Ep 15B

52 minutes

Erik shares how you can build games for the web with TypeScript and the Excalibur.js game engine. What's involved? What are some of the primitives you need to learn? What tools are there to make assets? And how do your webdev skills translate? All this and more in today's deep dive episode!

Chapters

(00:00) - Introduction to Excalibur.js

(01:13) - What is Excalibur.js?

(02:28) - Game Development Basics with Excalibur

(05:18) - Exploring Actors and Scenes in Excalibur

(06:38) - Diverse Game Types with Excalibur

(08:01) - Physics in Excalibur

(09:52) - Input Handling in Excalibur

(11:09) - Asset Management in Excalibur

(12:13) - Audio Management with Web Audio API

(14:57) - Integrations with Art and Level Design Tools

(17:07) - Hot Reloading and Game State Management

(19:15) - Loading and Performance Optimizations

(22:15) - Custom Shader Support in Excalibur

(26:30) - Excalibur's Origin Story

(29:03) - Why Is It Called Excalibur?

(30:00) - Building a Friendly Game Development Community

(31:33) - Getting Started with Excalibur

(33:42) - Publishing Games with Excalibur

(35:42) - Who is Excalibur Designed For?

(37:41) - Advice on Getting Into Game Development

(40:51) - The Future of Excalibur

(47:35) - Secrets of the Handbook: Declaration Merging

Links

Excalibird Tutorial
Excalibur.js Docs
Excalibur.js Community Discord
Excalibur.js Showcase
Follow Excalibur on BlueSky

Sponsored by Excalibur.js
Excalibur.js is the friendly TypeScript game engine for making 2D web games. Use your TypeScript or JavaScript skills to make games! Excalibur comes out-of-the-box with everything you need to make web games, like physics, sprites, animations, sound effects, input, and particles. Design your assets with tools like Aseprite and Tiled, then load them natively using first-party plugins.

Music
Seahorse Dreams by Kubbi (Spotify)

Creators & Guests

Erik Onarheim - Host

Kamran Ayub - Host

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