javascript game framework

Question

Nowadays with <canvas>, it is easy to find all kind of cool stuff around the net. Like emulators, demos, games, just visual stuff, etc.
But it seems that everyone is programming using the basic primitives of canvas.

There exist any framework working over <canvas> or utility library?

Answer 1

http://www.effectgames.com/effect/article.psp.html/docs/Getting_Started_Guide

Check it out - very cool!

Answer 2

You could look at something like Processing.js:

http://processingjs.org/exhibition

UPDATE:

If you want a game API, I haven't tried it, but the comments are promising, you can look at:

http://ajaxian.com/archives/gamejs-canvas-game-library

In order to keep the javascript small and optimized I tend to just access the elements directly, but, over time people will create libraries of their own, but it may not be libraries that are useful in certain situations.

UPDATE 2:

Looks like you can get a version of gamejs from here:

http://tommysmind.com/gamejs/GameJS-0.1.rar

This also was an interesting article on GameJS by the author: http://tommysmind.com/gamejs/

Answer 3

A couple of sprite based canvas libraries are:

• http://gamejs.org GameJs
• http://lamberta.posterous.com/ DoodleJs