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See also: System: For tiled images, it is usual to have something like: Use TILED image editor (https://www.mapeditor.org/) to edit  Also aseprite A good outline of using tiled: Creating a Mario style level in Python / Pygame with a visual level editor [Tiled] A good JS focused one: Pokémon JavaScript Game Tutorial with HTML Canvas…

See also: System: First – what is built into the language? in two stages – sort the data, then search it Merge sort – O(nlog n) – Ω(n) if only one number quit else sort left half of numbers sort right half of numbers merge sorted halves https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/sorting-algorithms/ Resources

See also: System: single layer – multi directions parallax Camera in a moveable, inner boundary What we want – character moves around in the ‘inner boundary’ – when they reach the egde, camera will start to move remains independant to size of map – but is defined by  Resources

See also: System: Make spriteObjects for each ‘thing’ in the game – including x/y position on origin sprite sheet Push them onto a sprites array loop through the array and render each item Resources the kittykat thing…

See also: System: needs a single variable to control the scrolling – otherwise there may be a gap which changes over time… Covered in AGDwJS p 316 (Creating the Scrolling Background) Requirements: This one works by –  2 instances of image one next to another when image 2 gets to 0, reset both instances: image…

See also: System: ANIMATION this is NOT necessarily movement – in fact, for frame based animation, it is likely not to be… So, this is just for the animation bit. There will also need to be a bit that has data about the sequence: This is the sort of data TILED will produce. See TILED…

See also: System: CAVEATS – consider the tech you are using and how it handles coordintaes –  Phaser – Container – A Container, as the name implies, can ‘contain’ other types of Game Object. When a Game Object is added to a Container, the Container becomes responsible for the rendering of it. By default it…

See also: collision System: input The basics: Moving left – then flipping the direction Movement is context based – for example, the background moves when in an ‘over world’ type map (such as map in LTTP), but not necessarily if you are in a small room which will totally fit with the game screen (like…

See also: for anything that you are using… JS – is single threaded… (is this still the case in 2022?) – yes it is! https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/javascript/mutlithreading-in-javascript/ use anonymous functions (arrow functions) to reduce memory usage Off load onto GPU Graphics Smaller images are usually painted faster than bigger ones. Scaling is evil.  Sprite sheets work a…

See also: Game loop Games states help you arrange the game into logical groupings Only swap between states when necesary, and only the bits that are necessary – e.g.  …structuring your game loop like this will make it much, much easier to do things such as switching game scenes and levels. It means that you…