August 2011
3 posts
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Game prototyping with JavaScript & CSS3
I wanted to share a quick few-hour game prototype to hopefully inspire a few people! The industry let-alone browser-based games seem very lacking in imagination and storytelling, or maybe I’m just not looking hard enough ;) but I miss games like Grim Fandango.
Below is a screenshot of the demo, consisting of several DOM nodes to represent parts of the main character, the birds, and the...
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commander.js - nodejs command-line interfaces made...
Commander.js is a small node.js module allowing you to define options and interacte with the user’s terminal in a simple and natural way, inspired by the Ruby library of the same name.
Features
self-documenting code
auto-generated help
combined short flags (“-abc” == “-a -b -c”)
option defaults
option coercion
command parsing
prompts
Example
A basic...
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Introducing Texty & Super Agent screencast
In this 20 minute screencast we dive into the full-text Redis search library reds for nodejs, an introduction to the canvas-only text editing library Texty, discussing how you can style canvas drawings with CSS, and the “ajax with less suck” library superagent.
