# bberak/react-native-game-engine

A lightweight Game Engine for React Native 🕹⚡🎮

Repository: https://github.com/bberak/react-native-game-engine
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/react-native-game-engine
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: react, react-native, game-development, game-engine, game-2d
Last push: 2024-12-31T04:31:45+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3362, "days_push": 610, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3103, forks 189 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:43.681018+00:00)

## What it is
A lightweight game engine for React Native providing components for building dynamic, interactive 2D scenes using a familiar update + draw game loop lifecycle. It supports both a simple GameLoop component and a component-entity-system architecture via its GameEngine component.

## Use cases
- build 2d games in react native
- create interactive animated scenes on mobile
- run a game loop with react native components
- structure game logic with entity component systems
- make a mobile puzzle game with javascript
- add physics-based gameplay to a react native app

## When to choose
- you are building a 2d or casual game with react native
- you want a lightweight engine that fits react native's component model
- you prefer javascript and entity-component-system patterns over heavy native engines

## When to avoid
- you need high-performance 3d graphics or console-grade rendering
- you are building a web-only game (use react-game-engine instead)
- you need a fully maintained engine with frequent updates and large ecosystem

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: game-engine, animation
- domain: mobile-development, cross-platform
- platform: cross-platform
- tags: react-native, game-loop, entity-component-system, 2d-games, javascript, game-development, mobile, ios, android

## Member repositories
- bberak/react-native-game-engine (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:43.681018+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:46:11.831657+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/bberak/react-native-game-engine (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:43.681018+00:00, sha 892f1b34d3e7)
  - registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/react-native-game-engine (fetched 2026-08-29T09:42:22.394732+00:00, sha 8314d33d66e6)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.