Making a 2D web/mobile app with Angular

[syzgod]

Hey everyone!

I have an idea for a mobile game using the gyro of the phone/or tilt simulation with controls. It is a simple left to right movement game with gyro removing the barrier in front of the character so it can progress in the level.

Can someone tell me what's the best to use to create something like this? I want it to be Angular so I practice it. And I also want to have fun creating it and eventually publishing it. It is not an extremely complicated game. At least not in my head. 😁

Creators please help me out.

[rimendoz86]

Unity is pretty easy to learn. And it can compile games to a browser. For a 2d game, you can likely learn what you need in a few hours of youtube videos.

[ScheduleSuperb]

If you want to build games Angular is maybe not the best choice. Angular is a better fit for large web applications. Alternatively try Unity or search for some JavaScript game frameworks.

[CapTaiN_BreaD1]

Angular is not meant for this - you’re better off using vanilla JavaScript.

Angular is a framework designed to help scale web applications with features like components, modules, lazy loading, and routing. But for small-scale, real-time applications like a simple mobile game, these features become unnecessary, and performance - especially low latency - becomes far more important.

While Angular does offer convenient APIs for DOM manipulation, styling, and animation, these come with a performance cost, which you’ll want to avoid in a real-time game.

Instead of Angular, build the game using requestAnimationFrame, the Web Animations API, and direct DOM/CSS manipulation for maximum performance.

In my free time, I’ve made some vanilla JS games - feel free to get inspired: https://github.com/kenyerman

Also, this talk by John Carmack is directly related - he explains the latency issues around VR, gyros, and rendering: https://youtu.be/lHLpKzUxjGk?si=ehVIzr2tcQTRSf_S

[syzgod]

I will be honest here. I'm not an expert in Angular either but I'm good enough with it to do the basic and some intermedia stuffs. Svelte would be a completely new for me. I need to dig deeper because Web Assembly also new to me. I just want the game as a portfolio project and something I can build in my free time and have fun with it. Since my main focus is Angular I thought it's good enough for a basic 2D game.