HTML5 Canvas Game: The Player Ship

A space ship on a starry background in space

In this second installment of the Galaxian Style HTML5 game series (which has been a long time coming),  I’ll be showing you how to create movement on the canvas by using techniques such as dirty rectangles, multiple canvases, and object pools. So sit back, relax, and let’s get to it!

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GameJam 2012 Update

I didn’t have the whole week to work on the game as I had to fly down to Texas for a couple of days, but I was able to come up with the exact details to the weapons the game will use. And since I didn’t post last week, I’ll make this post cover what I’ve done in the past two weeks (with this week again not giving me the time I wish I had).

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GitHub Game Jam 2012

GitHub Game Jam 2012 image of GitHub mascot in Mega man outfit

Image used from GitHub Game Off

GitHub is hosting a game jam for the month of November, and I decided I would participate. So fo the next few weeks I will post an article on my progress so that you can follow along with my endeavor.

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