jmenestr/astroman

AstromanJsGame

Astroman is a spacebased sidescroller implemented with vanilia javascript and HTML 5 Canvas.

Feature Highlights

• Use Object Oriented Design to modularize display class for rendering on HTML 5 Canvas

  root.CanvasDisplay = function(parent, level) {
    this.canvas = document.createElement('canvas');
    this.canvas.width = Math.min(600, level.width * scale);
    this.canvas.height = Math.min(450, level.height * scale);

    this.context = this.canvas.getContext('2d');
    parent.appendChild(this.canvas);
    this.level = level;
    this.animationTime = 0;
    this.fireTimer = 0;
    this.flippedPlayer = false;
  ....

• Implements sprite animation for character movement

// User Sprits and canvas drawImage to animate player character 
// Give default sprite for jump animation and no movement 
  CanvasDisplay.prototype.drawPlayer = function(x, y, height, width) {
    var spriteIdx = 5;
    var player = this.level.player;
    var jump = 6;
    var playerImage = document.createElement('img');
    playerImage.src = 'sprites/spaceman.png';
    if (player.speed.x != 0)
      this.flippedPlayer = player.speed.x < 0;

    if (player.speed.y != 0) {
      spriteIdx = jump;
    }

    else if (player.speed.x != 0) {
      var spriteIdx = Math.floor(this.animationTime * 12) % 10;
    }

    this.context.save();
    if (this.flippedPlayer) {
      flipHorizontally(this.context, x + (width + 8) / 2);
    }
    this.context.drawImage(playerImage, 
                      spriteIdx * (width + 8), 0, width + 8, height,
                      x,                 y, width + 8, height);

    this.context.restore();
  };

• Takes advantue requestAnimationFrame to keep animations smooth and synced with browser refresh

// Keeps track of time between current animation and last animation frames
// and passes in this timestep to the animateLevel method, which throttles  
// the maximum timestep to keep accurate collision detections 
function runAnimation(animateLevel) {
var lastTime = null;
function frame(time) {
  var stop = false;
  if (lastTime != null) {
    var timeStep = Math.min(time - lastTime, 100)/1000;
    stop = animateLevel(timeStep);
  }
  lastTime = time;
  if (!stop)
    requestAnimationFrame(frame);
}
requestAnimationFrame(frame);
}

##TODOS

• Implement sound
• Implement other NPC enemy characters
• Implement lasers to destroy said NPCs