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Add to SafariWhen comparing Twine vs Pixi.js, the Slant community recommends Twine for most people. In the question“What are the best 2D game engines?” Twine is ranked 38th while Pixi.js is ranked 56th. The most important reason people chose Twine is:
The basics are very easy to grasp, and you can have a basic story up in minutes.
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Pros
Pro Easy to understand
The basics are very easy to grasp, and you can have a basic story up in minutes.
Pro Free for commercial projects
Twine is based on a GPL licence. You are free to download, modify and publish derivatives - even commercially.
Pro Supports WebGL w/ canvas fallback
Pixi is a WebGL renderer, but can fall back to canvas if WebGL is not supported or turned off.
Pro Will be familiar to ActionScript developers
Pixi.js uses a code structure that's very similar to ActionScript.
Cons
Con Limited to interactive fiction
Twine is specialized to decision-based interactive fiction. Under the hood, a Twine game is just a flowchart for page transitions; the only way to add more complex behavior is to code it from scratch in JavaScript.
Con Not a complete solution
Pixi only provides the renderer.
