April 2012
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Custom Canvas Drawing in CraftyJS
A lot of people have asked about this and I thought it’s about time I write up a quick example for custom drawing on the canvas in a way that doesn’t break the redraw regions.
The first thing to ensure is that the entity’s width and height is large enough to encapsulate the entire drawing so the redraw region manager knows how much to clear.
The second thing to do is...
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External Documentation Proposal for Exposed APIs
I have been playing around with various methods of documentation and for a while I thought the way to go was inline documentation where the documentation exists within the source code, but I’ve noticed a few flaws in this approach.
Who is the target reader?
Inline documentation doesn’t make sense if the end user has no knowledge or interest in the source. It should exist to teach...
HashBBG.com Sneak Peek
I had a go playing around with Drupal for the new and improved #BBG community site. It was surprisingly easy to get started and build a dynamic site. The content type feature was very helpful for customizing the data that BBG members will be posting.
The current content types are:
Projects: This is if members have created a project and want to share it. You can specify the repo and homepage.
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A new direction for #BBG
If you haven’t heard of #BBG, check it out now! It’s an IRC channel on freenode.net dedicated to browser based games (regardless of your chosen tech) and boasts a variety of industry professionals from authors to engine developers.
We have a site dedicated to the community at hashbbg.com but we think it’s time for a revamp.
Categories
First of all we want to add categories...
