In this post I will attempt to collect web animation and game frameworks for the web
Animation
Snap SVG – simplifies SVG animation
Greensock – adds elaborate tweening to css/javascript and even SVG.
P5.js – coding for artistic projects / installations
D3.js – advanced interactive infographics
RaphaelJS – SVG graphics and animation
Gaming
CreateJS – Advanced toolset for creating canvas games
Phaser – A canvas gaming library including tweening, physics, sprite sheets, tilemaps, and all you need for a sprite-based game.
Playground.js – A basic starting point for a gaming project.
P5play.js – using P5 for gaming
Love2D – program games using the user-friendly language LUA
Front-end and prototyping
Prepros – handy UI for concatenating, minifying and compiling JS and SASS.
Materialize.css – CSS framework that allows quick website setup using Material Design.
Pixate – prototyping tool
Custom web elements – web snippets, install directly with npm or Bower
Creative software
If only to prove you don’t need that expensive Creative Cloud subscription.
Hype – Timeline based animation tool for HTML5
Sketch – Innovative UI and icon design tool. Works great with Swift and Xcode.
Affinity Designer – Vector design tool
Affinity Photo – Innovative editing software
Codea – Excellent app to program games in LUA – straight on your iPad
Principle – UX / prototyping tool
Stencyl – Game creating without code – based on MIT scratch
Webcode – Visual editor for creating SVG, canvas and CSS artwork