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Canvas isometric translations to integer coordinates
I'm creating a canvas based game with an isometric playing board. I use the following transformations to get my square tiles to render on the screen:
'applyViewportTransformation' : function() {
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Recreating Doodle Jump in Canvas - Platforms spawning out of reach
I have started to recreate Doodle Jump in HTML using Canvas. Here's my current progress. As you can see, if you play it for a few seconds, some platforms will be out of the player's reach. I don't ...
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Calculating angle between two vectors to steer towards a target
I have been trying to implement a path following steering behaviour for AI in a 2D racing game.
I have two vectors:
futurePosition represents the predicted future position given the car's current ...
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How should I sort images in an isometric game so that they appear in the correct order?
This seems like a rather simple problem but I am having a lot of difficulty with it.
What should I do to properly sort images in an isometric game?
In a normal 2d top-down game one could use the ...
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how to transform child elements position into a world position
I'm making a 2d space game in Javascript with canvas. In this game there's a bunch of spaceships, positioned in world space, with turrets, positioned relative to their parent ships. These objects also ...
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Isometric Optimization in javascript
I'm having some issues with my optimization of my game.
I have a simple tile map looped like this in my case the images are 64 by 64 pixels:
for (i=0; i < 50; i++){ //horizontal
for (j=0; ...
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How can I center a circle around a point on an HTML canvas?
I've got a job to make an engine and light game for canvas in HTML5. I like the things I make to be centered on the x,y positions I give it, I don't know why, it just helps me think about them ...
