You can’t render geometry (Pixi.Rectangle), they are meant for calculations only. You can do the following instead: var graphics = new PIXI.Graphics(); graphics.beginFill(0xFFFF00); // set the line style to have a width of 5 and set the color to red graphics.lineStyle(5, 0xFF0000); // draw a rectangle graphics.drawRect(0, 0, 300, 200); stage.addChild(graphics); source
There’s an open bug which affects systems without X11 libraries: crbug.com/swiftshader/79. It prevents Chrome OS from running with SwiftShader, but the same issue would also happen on a headless Linux system which has no X11 support. Fortunately it should be feasible to install X11 and get things running. I’m not 100% sure which packages provide … Read more
Phaser uses Pixi for rendering, albeit an older and heavily modified version of it. Current versions of Pixi may give you better performance, but you’ll have to implement by hand what’s readily available in Phaser. They are different by that Pixi is a rendering engine and Phaser is a game framework. I’ll quote Rich, the … Read more