Colonization: Research on HTML Browser Game List of Game engines and just some findings: https://github.com/bebraw/jswiki/wiki/Game-Engines Some research links for the frontend: http://gamequeryjs.com/ Simple Tile Engine: http://jsfiddle.net/8adUK/1/ Canvas Engine: http://canvasengine.net/ http://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/42038/what-would-be-a-good-way-to-implement-render-a-2d-tiled-map-for-a-browser-game http://t3n.de/news/html5-frameworks-entwicklung-browserspielen-299238/ http://www.html5gamedevs.com/topic/1043-tile-based-maps-pixel-movement-collision-detection-woes/