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How do I set an event off when player is on certain tile?

Here is the code I use to create and print my map to the canvas: var board = []; function loadMap(map) { if (map == 1) { return [ ...
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game inventory/bag system javascript html5 game [closed]

im building an RPG game using html5's canvas and javascript. Its tile based and im using an array to created my game map. I would like the player to have a bag/inventory so when they select or land ...
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how to devise a scoring algorithm based on elapsed time and number of moves [closed]

I want to devise an score algo for my game. I want to award high scores to players who achieve the goal in minimum time and least number of moves. I did this but its not going correctly: var score = ...
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Making an interactive 2D map

So recently I have been working on a Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past clone, and I am wondering how I could handle certain map interactions (like cutting grass, lifting rocks, etc). The way I am ...
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Should I use javascript to make a windows 8 game? [closed]

Windows 8 game development is designed mainly for C++ (which I don't know), but can be done in JS (which I do know). Is it worth it to learn C++ or should I continue with JS?
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Realtime multi-player game design principles for Node.js

I've been reading the Valve article on multi-player networking which has been adapted from Yahn Bernier's 2001 paper called Latency Compensating Methods in Client/Server In-game Protocol Design and ...
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How do I structure a 2D platform level?

I'm doing a 2D platformer but I don't know how they are usually built. The approach I'm looking at is making it tilebased, with ground tiles on bottom row, then platforms on some places in "mid-air" ...
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Independent HTML5 Physics Game: Any Feedback? [closed]

I've been independently developing a physics-based HTML5 game. I haven't used any libraries or engines; all the code, including the physics, is my own. It is free for a while on the Chrome Web Store ...
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Bomberman clone, how to do bombs?

I'm playing around with a bomberman clone to learn game-developement. So far I've done tiles, movement, collision detection, and item pickup. I also have pseudo bombplacing (just graphics and ...
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Javascript injection problems to beat my game! HELP

So I have a web application game that runs completely on the client side and just returns the score back to the server to list the highest scorer. Now I have noticed that I can easily manipulate the ...