Comments on: Flash to HTML5: Gridshock Remade

By: Bernhard

Bernhard — Sun, 20 May 2012 13:50:14 +0000

HI, very nice writing about HTML5 and the comparison to Flash. Maybe you are interessted in the thing i have done over the last week. I ported most of the Flash Display List (and Sound classes + more to come) to the new programming language Dart, which compiles to JavaScript. If you are an ActionScript programmer, you will ike Dart very much.

Check it out here: http://code.google.com/p/dartflash/

There you can find a link to a game which was ported from Flash to HTML5, using Dart and the library i did.

By: Marc

Marc — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 19:42:44 +0000

Regarding re-rendering when x & y change. I think, though I’m not 100% sure, calling .attr({x: 150, y: 120}) will set both x and y before re-rendering.

By: Josh Tynjala

Josh Tynjala — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:34:40 +0000

Keith, at the time I put this together, Playtomic was planning to charge per casual game (with one free, as I mentioned above) and they had special pricing for social games. It looks like they’ve changed their plans.

Thanks for letting me know that the game isn’t working. Playtomic is actually returning a 404 for the older version of their JavaScript API. Lovely.

By: Keith Weatherby II

Keith Weatherby II — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:30:05 +0000

Something odd, I can’t play your game at all. Not to mention that all of Playtomic stuff is supposed to be free. http://www.playtomic.com/pricing

In any case interesting read.

By: Josh Tynjala

Josh Tynjala — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 18:48:06 +0000

No, I haven’t made the full unminified source available. Moreover, I was using a pretty early version of Crafty, and things have changed a lot since then.

By: craftyjslearner

craftyjslearner — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 05:33:09 +0000

I want to study the code further. Is there a way that I can download all the associated files without minification?

By: Josh Tynjala

Josh Tynjala — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:50:17 +0000

igniz17173, that’s what I did too. At least there’s a hack like that, but it would be nice to see something better in the future.

By: igniz17173

igniz17173 — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 12:42:55 +0000

I faced the same problem with audio too. But u can actually do a trick to allow multiple playback of that audio file.

Create more than 1 buffer of the sound file whenever u play an effect sound & push into an array of playing sounds. Remove the buffer from the array when it is played completely. Remember to remove any reference to the buffer too to allow for GC.

By: Louis Stowasser

Louis Stowasser — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 06:29:22 +0000

Nice article. Please don’t hesitate to email me about any changes to Crafty you think are important. All of these points will be turned into issues that I can hopefully fix by v0.3. Any others you can think of would be greatly appreciated.

Great game!

By: DougTI

DougTI — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 18:48:35 +0000

Josh: this is very helpful. Thank you for your openness!