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I have made a type to shoot game using HTML5, javascript and ruby on rails. Here is the link for the game http://tweetraitor.herokuapp.com/.

I wanted to make a loader for resources (sounds, images) when the game starts. Currently when the game starts the background image takes time to load and it does not look good. This loader should load all the assets those are used later in the game.

Code for the game is here. https://github.com/rohit-jain/Tweetraitor

In the current version, all the images are loaded using js in an erb file which controls the game logic. Is there a better way to do this?

Thank you...

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I have to admit I have no idea of Ruby and how it's used together with js, but here is how I'd do it with js: 

window.onload = function() {
        var sources = {
            resource1: "img/sprite1.png",
            resource2: "img/sprite2.png",
            resource3: "img/sprite3.png"
        };
        loadImages(sources, initGame);  // calls initGame after *all* images have finished loading
    };

    function loadImages(sources, callback) {
        var images = {};
        var loadedImages = 0;
        var numImages = 0;
        for (var src in sources) {
            numImages++;
        }
        for (var src in sources) {
            images[src] = new Image();
            images[src].onload = function(){
                if (++loadedImages >= numImages) {
                    callback(images);
                }
            };
            images[src].src = sources[src];
        }
    } 

    function initGame(images) {
        // some code here...
    }
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Thank you. That's definitely better than what i am doing. – s2n Feb 18 at 6:25
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check this out: http://thinkpixellab.com/pxloader/ But its pure JS.

This preloader is used in HTML5 version of Cut the Rope game: http://www.cuttherope.ie/.

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Thank you. Will check it out. – s2n Feb 18 at 6:22
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