{"author_name":"Entity2D","cat":"LD #26","comments":[{"author_name":"Dietrich Epp","time":"April 24, 2013 4:14 pm","epoch":1366838040,"text":"I love the picture. It looks like the blinding light of the sun is pouring out from your laptop screen.","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1366836720,"likes":3,"metadata":{"p_key":"46733","p_author":"Entity2D","p_authorkey":"10301","p_urlkey":"82395","p_title":"I\u2019m In (v.1.1): Tool update","p_cat":"LD #26","p_event":"LD26","p_time":"1366836720","p_likes":"3","p_comments":"1","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"10301","us_name":"Entity2d","us_username":"entity2d","event_start":"1366934400","event_key":"16","event_name":"LD26"},"text":"

In the last ‘I’m In’ post I made, I said that I would be using CraftyJS<\/a> or the CreateJS<\/a> suite. I tried to make a warmup game with Crafty, but I found it too difficult for it to work with for my workflow (Crafty only seems to scale DOM elements correctly, and not Canvas elements).<\/p>\n

Another HTML5 library caught my eye, though, by reading others’ ‘I’m in’ posts, \u00a0melonJS<\/a>. I’ve had a look through the documentation, and worked through the tutorial over the last couple of days, and it seems to be better suited to someone weaning their way off AS3\/Flixel\/FlashPunk (<– I’ve got nothing against these awesome Flash libs, or Flash in general, I’m just curious about HTML5 tech)<\/p>\n

Tools I’m using (pretty much finalized):<\/p>\n