This week I began implementing the nutritional game on Finding-Understanding.com . I linked to Create.js through a cdn (content delivery network) . I then began setting up some very simple code on a canvas for Create.js .
So far I am not loving the Create.js and Easel.js documentation and site as much as I had thought. The documentation is not as well written and organized as it had seemed before I started coding. I have however, as stated above, gotten some basic functionality going. I have started by focusing on the main character and the very most basic functionality. Currently I have the main character represented by a blue circle, which will be replaced by this guy:
Also, since I plan to have the game play be linear with with movement dictated by the space bar, I have written a little code to acknowledge when the user presses the space bar (key 32).
I’m going to really need to get cracking on coding up the beginning of this game so I can decide soon if I need to switch to my other library of choice p5js, which is currently being used for the 3d space on the positive affirmations page. I already know that that site has excellent documentation, tutorials, and examples, so that would be a good alternate if Create.js falls through.
I have also begun working on my next draft of my grading rubric, and hope to finish that draft up next week. There’s a lot more work to be done, but I’m hoping to be much more productive this coming week.