Original Canvas Game Demo…Sorta…

So, I’ve been having quite a bit of fun with javascript and canvas as of late. And one of the best (read “fun”) ways to learn anything with graphics is to make games.

As of yet, I’ve remade Snake and Worm, and now I’m working on an original. Buuuuut given the fact that times are busy right now, and I’m figuring that it will be sometime by the turn of the century.

For now, I’ll just post my incremental progress as I find free time to work on such things.

What it currently features:

Momentum based movement
collision detection
A “life” counter

And what is currently lacking:

Sound
Any sort of object
Screen boundries
Any sort of impressive visuals

For now, the movement controls are WASD.

The reason for this is that the arrow keys are used for “attacking” (which also has yet to be implements). However, if you’ve got Chrome or Firefox with Firebug, you can open your javascript console and see that an 8 direction charge attack system has been implemented with nothing actually hooking in.

“Play” it here!

Get the code here!