Gravity Boost is a web deployable game built within the HTML5 canvas structure that's based loosely on the mechanism of planet formation. The objective is to successfully pilot a ship through the chaos as a group of asteroids (or protoplanets) feel the pull of each other's gravity and start clumping together. When they clump together and form a single cohesive structure, you can land and become the God of a brand new world 😉
I thought it would be interesting to experiment with HTML5 canvas without any sort of framework or game engine involved (eg. phaser.io which I've used in the past). I never like experimenting with new technology without direction, so Gravity Boost as a game was born as an end goal.
This project requires Node.js and the Node package manager (npm). Install them here if you don't have them on your system.
The code in development requires a bundling process to transform it into browser ready production JavaScript, and this bundling is done here using Gulp, Browserify, and Babel for transpilation of ES6+ features.
Gulp, browserify, and all the other necessary dependencies can be installed with
npm iTo run the bundling in development mode, run
npm run devNow your bundling process will be watching the src/ directory for changes
To package the frontend assets for production, run
npm run initialize- Gulp - Task runner
- Browserify - Frontend asset bundling
- Babel - Transpiling for cross browser ES6 compatibility
Ananth Rao (@ananthamapod)
MIT, for more information, see LICENSE