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Welcome to the melonJS wiki, here you will find help, tutorial and documentation to melonJS :

Official Links

• FAQ : a useful list of melonJS Frequently Asked Questions.
• Documentation : official melonJS online documentation (html).
• Discourse : official melonJS forum (google and html5gamedevs forum archives here and here)
• Boilerplate : When starting your own projects (deprecated boilerplate for the legacy version here)
• Code Snippets : a collection of useful code snippets
• Upgrade Guide : APIs change guideline when upgrading from a previous version
• Upgrade to melonJS 2 : quick step by step how-to on upgrading to melonJS 2
• Contribute : how to contribute to melonJS
• made with melonJS : a non exhaustive list of games and demos made with melonJS

Tutorial

• Beginner Tutorial: Hacking a Platformer Game
• Getting Started with melonJS by Code Monkey Club
• Space Invaders Meet ConfigCat and MelonJS
• Dig Dug game Let’s build the Dig Dug game using MelonJS
• Building a Typing Game with MelonJS a great tutorial from Fernando Doglio on how to build a JS game using MelonJS and Tiled
• Advanced 2D Movement with MelonJS learn how to implement advanced movement such as climbing and dashing
• Moving Between Screens in Your Game Using MelonJS focusing on game state, by Ellis Herbert

Details & Usage

• The Core Engine Explained
• Renderables
• Adding a Physic Body to a Renderable
• Collision Shapes
• How to define world collision shapes in Tiled
• Adding and Maintaining Your Game Objects
• Resources
• Building for production using the boilerplate

Third-Party Tools Usage

• Tiled Wiki : Link to Tiled wiki and related documentation/help
• Tiled Tutorial Series : a series of Tiled Map Editor Tutorial on GamesFromScratch.com
• melonJS Particle Studio Editor : Visual Particle Editor for melonJS
• How to configure Shoebox for melonJS
• How to use TexturePacker with melonJS
• Using sprite sheets in melonJS (by codeandweb)
• How to load PhysicEditor shapes into your melonjs project
• How to generate and use Bitmap Font in melonJS

How-To Build your game for specific platforms

• Making your game into a mobile hybrid app
• How to make your HTML5 game run as a native Android TV app using Android Studio and Cordova
• How to build your game for the new Apple TV (4th Gen) using Ejecta
• How to build your game for tvOS (or iOS) using Ejecta
• How to deploy your melonJS game on Facebook Instant Games in 3 minutes
• How to deploy WeChat Mini Games with melonJS

External Links

• Introduction to Tiled : Nick Bruner gives a basic introduction to the Tiled Map Editor, and shows how to use it to make a map!
• melonJS Tutorial : an introduction to melonJS in Portuguese, by relsi (outdated)
• Upgrading to melonJS 1.0 : an article by Cian Games. for those still using older version of melonJS.
• Upgrading to melonJS 1.1 : Cian Games' second upgrade article, and highly recommended for it's walk-through style.
• Upgrading to melonJS 2.0 : Cian Games does it again! Another excellent upgrade article/walkthrough.
• Upgrading to melonJS 2.1 : Another version, another Cian Games' upgrade guide!
• Using JavaScript and HTML5 to Develop Games: Creating a Platformer Game with melonJS and Tiled (PDF)
• melonJS: Anatomy of a Game Object : An article that dives into the inner workings of a game object, describing how they are updated and drawn.
• Lightweight Multiplayer HTML5 Games with PubNub and melonJS : An article that shows how easy it is to create multiplayer games with melonJS using PubNub as the communication arbiter.
• Implementing Particles with melonJS : an article by Andre Antonio Schmitz using melonJS 1.0.x.
• 4 Realtime Elements Every Multiplayer Game Dev Needs : an article that covers different aspects of multiplayer game dev that require a reliable realtime connection for gaming.
• How to create a flappy bird clone using melonJS (1.0.x) : a step by step guide on how to create a flappy bird clone !
• Resources for develop games using HTML5, Javascript and WebGL (Some resources can be used for general game development) by Andre Antonio Schmitz, Game Developer at Cian Games.
• Creating a simple plugin : How to create a simple plugin for melonJS (by Ellison Leão).

Books/ Official publication

• Beginning Facebook Game Apps Development : gets you started with building your first game apps that run on Facebook, and include a full game example created with the melonJS library.
• The Web Game Developer's Cookbook: Using JavaScript and HTML5 to Develop Games : This book brings together everything you need (expert guidance, sample projects using melonJS, and working code) to start building great web games with HTML5 and JavaScript!.

Introduction to Javascript

• Javascript Guide : provided by the Mozilla network (English)
• eBook : Eloquent Javascript - A Modern Introduction to Programming (English, German, French)
• How-To : JavaScript debugging for Beginners (English)
• How-To : Advanced debugging with JavaScript (English)
• Debugging Tips : a collection of useful tips to get you unstuck when debugging your game
• Remotely debugging Chrome Desktop : Introduction to remote debugging using Firefox and Chrome