hiloteam/Hilo

Health v2 · maintenance only

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5939 stars · 846 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Hilo is a cross-end HTML5 game development framework from Alibaba Group, providing a lightweight visual object architecture with multiple renderers (Canvas, DOM, WebGL). It bundles audio, preload, physics (Chipmunk), and skeleton animation (DragonBones) extensions for building browser games quickly.

Use cases

• build html5 games for mobile webviews
• create 2d canvas games in javascript
• render sprites and animations with webgl
• make browser games compatible with old browsers like ie
• add physics or dragonbones skeleton animation to a web game
• build interactive marketing mini-games

When to choose

• you need a lightweight, dependency-free 2d html5 game engine
• you must support a wide range of desktop and mobile browsers including legacy ones
• you want multiple module formats (AMD, CommonJS, CMD) for integration

When to avoid

• you need a full 3d game engine
• you want a modern engine with an active ecosystem like Phaser or PixiJS
• you need built-in editor tooling or native app packaging

Facets

framework · maturity maintenance

game-engine graphics animation audio-processing web-development frontend cross-platform browser cross-platform html5 canvas webgl 2d-games sprites alibaba flash-shim mobile-browsers game-development javascript web-server

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