Questions tagged [javascript]
"JavaScript (sometimes abbreviated JS) is a prototype-based scripting language that is dynamic, weakly typed and has first-class functions. It is a multi-paradigm language, supporting object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles." From Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript
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Why won't the ball appear? How do I make it appear?
I have the following HTML/JavaScript code for a Pong game. The ball does not appear.
Why? And how do I fix it?
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Creating playable ads directly from a game in Unity
I need to research "playable ads", a form of digital advertising that isn't really new — when you've made a game in Unity, and you'd like to build an ad that truly represents the gameplay, ...
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solid color to sprite (javascript game)
Hi I recently created a javascript game, in this game, math random is used to pick a random shape.
The shapes are in strings, and the associated numbers within the string are then used to show a color....
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Is it a bad idea to store functions inside components in ECS?
Say I have three entities: Player, Spikes, and Zombie. All of them are just rectangles and ...
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Implementing Seperating Axis Theorem
I'm trying to implement the Seperating Axis Theorem by following this article I found on MDN.
Unfortunately, I'm not too geometry savvy and I wasn't able to find any good, simple implementation ...
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Line strokes also adding borders to other shapes?
When you run the project, you can see that the first circles have a black border around them. When I remove the Game.drawLines(), the circles don't have the border ...
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How to import three.module.js
I'm looking at this three.js cubemap example, and it runs fine in my browser when loaded from that page.
After much strain to find and download the files - it does not run?
What am I doing wrong, with ...
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Raycasting - weird lines on walls when ray is facing up or right
I am trying to make a raycasting game. Everything is rendered correctly except when the ray is facing up (angle > PI) or facing right(angle > 0.5PI and < 1.5PI) lines are drawn on walls. I am ...
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Top down four directional movement snap to tiles, not feel like crap
I want to make a topdown rpg movement, I need to update these parameters based on user input:
User input four directions: ⬆️⬇️⬅️➡️ .
Update parameters
Position: ...
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Check bounds in 2d platformer level transition
I have asked How camera works in 2d platformer in level transitions about camera transitions,
in the process I am stuck somewhere else.
I have a targetRoom that is 32 by 32 tiles:
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Optimizing a quadtree for circles and circular queries
I'm developing a 2D ant simulation in JavaScript. I'd like to implement a quadtree to store the positions of ants and other markers. I approximate all of these entities as circles, and I'm only ...
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How camera works in 2d platformer in level transitions
I want to know how Camera works in game of Celeste.
Currently what I have is, camera follows the player using interpolation:
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How can I implement a Boardgame.io project using Webpack?
I am following the boardgame.io tutorial, but I do not want to use either of the two implementation options covered in the tutorial (React and Parcel).
The tutorial requires a framework or bundling ...
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The elements of a perfect juicy jump
I have seen and implemented these ideas: Simple Physics based Movement SO answer. Building a Better Jump GDC Talk. And written a tutorial about it Making a Platformer in Pico 8.
Finally made a simple ...
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How to make a snake game where each snake tile follows it's connected tile
I want to make a basic snake game. It has a head and a series of tails that occupy a tile in a grid. The first tail in the series is adjacent to the head. and each tail that comes after is adjacent to ...
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Time-passed check with Pause functionality
I am working on a game that has a lot of time-passed checks of the following format. These work great, but there is a problem when the game is paused:
If paused for any meaningful amount of time, the ...
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The rule to scale pixel art non multiple of integer ratios [duplicate]
I have pixel art, I want to draw. When player jumping I want to animate the art to squash stretch to have a feeling. But when I scale the art it get's distorted, as demonstrated in the image.
In one ...
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How to leave trails that are equidistant apart from each other
I want bunch of circles to follow the player while keeping a distance apart.
So far I have this:
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Algorithm for simulating collision between circles of different mass
First of all, I'm not sure if this is the right site for this question, as it's actually a game I'm developing. However, I thought that this would be a common thing to need to know in games, so I put ...
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Saving Complex Data to File Javascript
My game uses lots of complex objects to store game data. (Each block and entity has its own instance of a class)
I am trying to create a saving and loading system, where the user can save game ...
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How to move a character from 1 to 3 squares on a grid?
I need to make a turn based game in js and jquery. The rules are :
The 2 characters, the 4 weapons and the 15 obstacles are randomly generated on a grid(made with HTML table and generated in a loop)
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Spider physics to patrol on platform smoothly when changing direction
I have a 3 tile wide platform. I want my spider to hang from the ceiling and patrol this platform left and right.
I have dx property for velocity. I want a physics code that shows how to achieve this.
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What are the parameters for a smooth wall jump
I want to make a platformer like Celeste and trying to implement wall jump.
When the player is on the air and near a wall, and presses jump, the player gains x velocity opposite the wall direction, ...
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Are spritesheets worth it? Is a zip a good alternative?
I was wondering if spritesheets are worth it.
I am making a game with pixi.js and was thinking about optimization, beginning with asset loading. I currently have an arraya of all files and use PIXI....
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Calling function every n second javascript game
I making a game and I want to call a function that runs every random second to spawn something every time. I've seen some posts that said to use the setInterval() ...
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Is reobfuscating javascript every time the page is loaded a valid option for a multiplayer game?
I am looking for ways to prevent cheating on a multiplayer browser game. I saw this answer where it was mentioned that obfuscation is not an effective technique.
My plan is not only to obfuscate the ...
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Bubble Shader in Babylon.js
Can anyone think of an approach to creating a bubble-like material in babylon.js? I imagine a good starting point would be with using the Fresnel shader.
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Particle Turbulence Effect in Babylon.js
Is there any way to implement a turbulence effect in a babylon.js Particle System? I know that its possible to use physics engines on mesh objects, but I've not seen any discussion of using them on a ...
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Finding all possible paths from one hexagon to another
I got a hexagonal grid (cube coords)
In hex (0,0,0) there is a soldier and in another (distance == 4 hexes) a target:
i need to find all possible pathes from soldier hex to a target :
1)Length of ...
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2D Grid-based Pathfinding with Elevation
I'm creating an isometric game which currently uses A* Pathfinding on a basic grid representation of the map.
Having elevations and allowing the Players to traverse up-and-down is an integral part of ...
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Default Game Window Size To Take While Making Games
I am planning to make a game for mobiles and tablets, I wanted to know what would be the default resolution that I should set for my game so that it covers all or most of the devices out there.
I read ...
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Hide Environment Texture in Babylon.js
Is it possible to hide an environment texture as to preserve the reflections/light it provides while keeping the background transparent (as seen in picture 2)? I know this is done in Blender by ...
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Player hitting bottom of tile when beside it?
So my player checks if it is colliding with tiles, and it works pretty good. However, when the player is against a wall, moving upwards and sideways, it detects it as hitting the bottom of the wall ...
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Use JS to grab values from a dynamic Lua Table
((BACKGROUND: I'm modding a game that runs using Lua and the Source2 Engine (Dota). Gameplay logic uses Lua and HUD uses JS))
I used Lua to create a global table. For instance:
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How to show part of the world scaled to screen size?
I have a world size of 100x100
I want to map this world size to screen size using this mapTo function
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In regards to real time turn based games, where should the turn handler be?
I'm currently developing a pool-like browser game. I'm stuck on where should I handle the turn changing, timer, etc.
Currently, turn timer (i.e. 15 seconds left to do action, then turn will change) is ...
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Electing a host with WEBRTC
This is similar to Host Migration (P2P) with RTMFP and AS3
I have a webRTC chat room, initially used Twilio and switching to skyway, the situation is that I have a bunch of peers with data broadcast ...
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How to properly resize canvas according to screen size? (Javascript)
So, as the question says I need to resize the canvas according to screen size. However the thing is that that's not it. I also need to have the mouse coordinates updated proportionally. Seems like I ...
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Javascript snake game, configurable section distance
I want to make a snake game.
In a classic game the snake moves in 4 directions, I want the player to move in all directions by mouse input, similar to slither.io
Right now the tail section changes ...
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How do I debug within an animation loop?
I'm trying to see some values within an animation loop, and am naively just console.log'ing when I need to, however, this usually results in the browser crashing ...
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Enemy explosion offSet is displaced away from desired point of origin
In the game, when the enemy is hit and explodes the explosion animation appears offset to the bottom right corner of the dead enemy's center point.
I ran tests to adjust the explosion positioning ...
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Spawning objects inside rectangle JS
I'm making a JS game "Monopoly", where I spawning players in random position inside a rectangle. I need a formula that spawns circles INSIDE a rectangle, without being outside.
Here what I have tried:...
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Completely Pixelated Font in JavaScript Canvas?
I'm making a game with a canvas scaled up such that each pixel is pretty big. I want to display some pixelated text without anti-aliasing but I have idea how I would accomplish this.
Is there I way ...
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My HTML Canvas went blank
I tried to draw Mario Sprites in my HTML Canvas, but it always went blank.
Anybody knows why?
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I can't clear the paint image in my Canvas
I'm trying to make the Mario move, but somehow it leaves traces behind, can anybody help???
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Jumping a image in javascript
Which is the most efficient way to animate an HTML <img> element in vanilla javascript so that it jumps and falls back with acceleration.
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Im adding ...
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How to move 2D obstacle on Z axis in Javascript and HTML canvas?
I am trying to make a 3D-ish game where the player must dodge obstacles coming at them on the z axis. I have been trying for a long time to find a way to make it look like an object is moving on the Z ...
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Unity WebGL Canvas only loads on select machines
https://herbertjoseph.com
There is a WebGL build in the background of this site, and it doesn't seem to laod on my iPad. I've asked a few people to visit and check it out, and some have said that the ...
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My HTML canvas keep flickering
I'm trying to create a game in HTML canvas, but somehow it keeps flickering, I've taken a look at the tutorial and I perceived that my code is more or less similar. Can anybody help me fix this?
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What does this all mean for the enemy?
This enemy JS file in a space shooting game was part of tutorial but there was no explanation to what is does and more importantly Why.
Can you please help me explain what the following mean in the ...
