[PIGMI] Documentation review

[Doug]

Just as an example of what I'm talking about, this is the sort of thing I'd
want to be able to do:
http://magiksandbox.appspot.com/SaveKittens.html

(yeah, it only works in firefox or chrome. :P)

~
Doug.

On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 3:56 PM, Doug <douglas.linder at gmail.com> wrote:

> Neat. Are you after feedback about the documentation or the library? The
> documentation looks great, go javadocs! :)
>
> Things to think about with the library:
>
> - How would you integrate this with one of the js Box2D implementations?
> (need, effectively, a method / callback to pull 2d position, rotation state
> for every entity from the box2d core every frame; this applies with any
> other physics engine you slot in too; is there a way to do this per Entity?
> It wasn't clear to me)
>
> - Along these lines, since you get the canvas reference in the draw()
> method, you can rotate your sprites arbitrarily using c.setTransform(), but
> once you do, your axis aligned collide code doesn't work any more, because
> the bounding box isn't axis aligned any more. That's fine, because Box2D
> handles collision detection; but how would you plug that into this?
>
> - Your network model doesn't seem to support long polling connections. Have
> you considered depending on socket.io?
>
> - Looks like there aren't any obvious external dependencies; have you
> considered looking into see if this would run under node.js? I believe there
> was a node.js canvas implementation floating around somewhere..?
>
> If you could make this a library that ran equally as a desktop app using
> node.js, or a browser app depending on the situation, and think you'd get a
> lot of interest in it...
>
> ~
> Doug.
>
> On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 10:12 PM, Chris McCormick <chris at mccormick.cx>wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I just got around to documenting the new features in jsGameSoup, the
>> Javascript
>> game engine I've been working on for a little while.
>>
>> I would love to hear opinions and advice on whether the documentation is
>> clear,
>> and the home page is easy enough to follow and figure out. I am trying to
>> push
>> to make it easy for people to adopt this library for their own games.
>>
>> Home page:
>>        http://mccormick.cx/projects/jsGameSoup/
>>
>> API documentation:
>>        http://mccormick.cx/projects/jsGameSoup/jsdocs/
>>
>> If anyone is thinking of making a game for the web and doesn't want to use
>> Flash, please consider giving this library a try. I would love to hear
>> about
>> your experience with it so I can make it better.
>>
>> Thanks for listening! You may now continue your discussion of TRON. :)
>>
>> Chris.
>>
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