HTML5 Game: Commander Clone Training Mission

published:: 2011.04.29
topics:: games; javascript

I've finished a level of my Run N' Gun video game that I have been working on for the Experimental Gameplay Project theme: "Cheap Clone." I have been evaluating the Akihabara HTML5 game engine in the process of making this level.

I present to you "Commander Clone 0.2 - Training Mission" — you should play it right now!

If you don't like something about it, please tell me! If you really love something about it, please invite your friends to play.

There are still some bugs, and this training mission level doesn't have a ton of content... but it has been fun to draw the sprites and modify Akihabara. I also like to think the level has a certain charms. ;)

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Sven launched this comment T plus 13 years.

Hey,

nice HTML5 game :-) Unfortunately it's not German keyboard layout friendly. There the keys Z and X are swapped so for this game you have to spead the fingers across half the keyboard.

Yikes, I'm sorry about that! I'm glad you pointed this out. It looks like XCV are three keys which are much more reliably next to each other on keyboards than ZXC. I'll change this now, and I will also get a controls setup page added eventually.

bieron launched this comment T plus 13 years.

It suck 20% of my CPU (dual core !)
I know that it just a test but it hurts.

Only 20%?! Not bad! hahaha

Hardware optimization of the 2D HTML5 canvas and/or WebGL will probably bring that 20% down a little bit, but there still is game logic / AI that has to run in JavaScript.

I mean, I made this game in probably less than 40 hours of total work completely on my own, including the art. It took nine people a year to write Pac Man!

How is that possible? Because you can code so much faster in JS/HTML5 than in assembly/C. But if one person can do what took nine people a year, there has to be a tradeoff somewhere. And that somewhere is on your CPU.

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