SuperSprint is an attempt to recreate the famous game I've been playing for hours when I was a kid on our good old Atari ST 520 (What did SuperSprint look like actually ?), on the web. I would really like to make this a multiplayer game (using websockets ?), this is the milestone I'd like to reach.
- Box2dweb physics engine : I've tried several javascript physics engines so far, but none of them contained half the documentation, the stackoverflow-answer base, features and/or helpers box2dweb has.
- Pixi JS : pixi seems to be the 2D rendering engine that has this great WebGL with canvas fallback, plus the community is very dynamic as far as I can tell.
- NodeJS : very handy self-contained webserver, and their seems not to be much to set up for socket.io in the near future.
- CoffeeScript : I found the code very clear with that. It helps a lot especially when dealing with classes and inheritance.
I Hope you like it !
In the app/ folder, you'll find a node server (node_server.js) you can start using the command node node_server.js. After that just start chrome localhost:8000 and point to app/index.html.
######coffee script compilation
In the app/ folder, you'll find a gruntfile containing a wCoffee task.
Calling grunt wCoffee launches a watcher for any coffee file added in the corresponding task in the gruntfile
Files compile to app/js/compiled/.
######url params
You can call different tracks using url params:
http://localhost:8000/index.html?track=1&cars=0,0
This loads track 1 of those contained in TracksConfig array (see tracksConfig.coffee)
This loads 2 instances of the 0th car config (find it [here] (https://github.com/BlueInt32/super-sprint/blob/master/app/js/conf/carsConfig.coffee))
Note : the first car index provided corresponds to the player's car.
######game process starting point The main game process is situated in game.coffee
######Box2D and Pixi fighting for canvas space
You can show/hide box2d debugging info by un/commenting this line in game.coffee
@universe.world.SetDebugDraw(debugDrawer)
You can show/hide pixi sprites by un/commenting the following line in universe.coffee (I agree this is weird)
@pixiRenderer.render(@pixiStage);
All the infos for creating assets are (or will be) in the assets folder