canvas gaming

Status

• 2006-02-20
  Having a little idle time while waiting for some tasks to complete, I recalled the nifty new canvas element that was introduced with the release of FireFox 1.5. Seeing the nifty FPS-thing that was done before, I thought, why not try something on a 2D gaming level. The question then boiled down to what and how.

file updated: 2006-02-27

scripting away!

Rapid Prototyping

Wanting to make sure each feature worked, I developed each feature as a release

• iteration 5: alien movement nausea
• iteration 4: sprite blitting
• iteration 3: pausing
• iteration 2: shooting
• iteration 1: movement