The first official day of my game jam week. So far it’s been quite a lot of research. Watched countless YouTube videos and read through several chapters of Advanced Game Design with HTML5 and JavaScript. I’ve re-written large sections of my pre-Jam prototype and added a few features like the ability to toggle debug mode (press Q) and I’ve added the beginnings of the level editor. Overall today has been a bit of a mainenence day; and I’m OK with that. I do have a little catching up to do tomorrow if I’m going to stay on plan.
I’ve found a small issue with the way I’ve loaded the game in to http://kyleclarke.co.nz/game. Iframes apparently don’t want to take keyboard events from the parent window; So you you can’t move around with arrow keys or toggle debug mode etc. I didn’t want this to distract me today so you can play today’s build here: http://kyleclarke.co.nz/game/v0.1.1 and I’ll fix the normal way tomorrow when I get a chance.
I’m off to do some more “research” (read: play as many strategy games as I can).