GameJs

GameJs is a JavaScript library for writing 2D games or other interactive graphic applications for the HTML Canvas http://gamejs.org.

Its API is modeled after the successful PyGame library http://pygame.org.

• Website http://gamejs.org
• Contributors https://github.com/oberhamsi/gamejs/contributors
• Showcase http://gamejs.org/showcase/

Usage

If you downloaded the git version, you will have to build the GameJs JavaScript file. Go to the GameJs directory and execute this in a unix shell or in git bash:

$ ./bin/minify-gamejs.sh

This should create a gamejs.min.js file in the GameJs home directory.

See the examples/skeleton/ directory for a minimal GameJs app. We recommend you also use this as the scaffolding if you want to create a new game yourself.

Note that you need to run the examples via http:// (not file://) unless you use Firefox or Safari. One trivial, cross-plattform solution to serve a directory via http is this executable: http://code.google.com/p/mongoose/.

Bundle your application for production

A bundled game:

• does not need to be served over http:// (unless it uses SurfaceArray)
• has a smaller file size
• has somewhat obfuscated code

To bundle all JavaScript files into one single file, use:

$./bin/minify-app.sh ./path-to-your-app/javascript/

You can also add a second argument compress. With compress, the resulting bundle file will be compressed for smaller file size as well as obfuscated.

minify-app.sh will create the bundled file app.min.js in your app's javascript folder.

To use the bundled file add a <script> tag loading it and remove all other <script>s.

More Help

See the GameJs Website for more help or drop us an email in the Mailing List.

Check the docs folder of your GameJs installation.

Example application can be found in the examples/ directory.

GameJs Development

In production, an application uses a bundled JavaScript file which contains all GameJs modules (usually called gamejs.min.js). This is what all the examples do.

Thus if you modify the files below ./lib your changes won't show up in the examples unless you re-bundle the files with the ./bin/minify-gamejs.sh command

Unit Tests

We use QUnit https://github.com/jquery/qunit for the GameJs unit tests. Execute them by opening tests/index.html.

JsDoc

For the JavaScript documentation system, RingoJs must be installed on your system. This bash file will take care of rewriting the documentation into docs/api/:

$ ./bin/create-jsdoc.sh