Hello there! I am happy to finally participate in a Ludum Dare. I look forward to playing everybody’s games.

I thought I would share this project of mine called chem.

It is designed to rapidly prototype 2d browser-based games using canvas. Some of the features:

• Automatically creates a spritesheet for your assets and then loads the assets at runtime.
• Provides API for drawing animated sprites in a canvas
  • Supports anchor points and rotation
• Write code in JavaScript or other compile-to-javascript languages such as Coffee-Script.
• Uses browserify to compile your code which allows you to harness the power of code on npm.
  • For example, A* search
  • Allows you to organize code modules using require and module.exports syntax.
• Everything from code to spritesheet is compiled automatically when you save.
• Handles main loop and frame skipping.
• Handles all the boilerplate for keyboard and mouse input.

Here are some simple game examples if you want to see how code using this project is structured:

• Meteor Attack – dodge meteors in space (coffee-script)
• holocaust – rebuild society after a nuclear holocaust ravages the world (javascript)
• Dr. Chemical’s Lab – My PyWeek #14 entry, ported to chem (coffee-script)
• vapor – vaporware game. Not cool yet. (coco)

In addition, the README has an introduction and the reference API documentation.

I hope it helps!

Love,

superjoe.