For the sake of learning, fun, simplicity, and getting something playable on the screen as soon as possible, we are .. going for a scrolling background, and randomised level platform patterns. We have the ninja running and idle animations, but now it is still sitting on a blank white canvas […]

“Let’s make that ninja run!” The player character is not yet visible on the canvas, but we are going to change that very shortly.We want to set the player idle, and then also the additional player running animation. When we have the player sitting at idle, and able to run […]

In this part, we cover the animation frame referred to as a ‘sprite’, the animation which is the collection of the sprites required to animate the required action, and the animationCollection, which is all the various actions that have been animated for this character. We want to load the images […]

“These things are all about getting the timing right..” It was previously highlighted that we would want to include: game.initialise()game.update()game.render() These are the basic steps for any game development. We initialise the variables we need to start, when the game starts it runs in a loop, each iteration of the […]

“The ‘something’ connected to the, ‘other thing’!” Before we continue, I would like to first acknowledge that I did not create these character image animations or level sprites used for this project. I have downloaded them previously as a free-to-use resource and have utilised them in educational and experimental projects, […]

What differentiates a moment in a game from another? How do we animate the images to show enough animation frames per second and make this animation look smooth and appealing? And how do we ensure that the game is responsive to input from the player and that there is no […]