Welcome to my "Character Controller" repository! Here I am experimenting with managing entities on a canvas and some basic terrain generation..
This repository is for educational purposes and to share and document my approach. Feel free to explore, modify, and use any code you find here for your own learning and projects.
The current progress is deployed as https://character-controller-henna.vercel.app/.
It isn't a 'project' really - more like a playground, I'm just trying stuff out. What is currently supported is, to control the knight character with your keyboard and to drag the minion around with your mouse. The minion will do it's best to get back to you. You can bully them around by swinging your sword at them, if you feel like you need some stress relief.
There is no goal or game here other than that.
Sure - I mean, apart from this being open source, there is a debug menu in the lower right hand corner of the screen, which prints out some extra stuff to the canvas to help you (or mostly me) see whats going on.
None - or a custom-built one, depending on how you want to look at it. I thought it might be fun to start without any libraries and just create functions when I need them. I just draw everything onto several layers of HTML Canvas.
Is that a smart idea? Probably no.
Was it fun? Sure!
I am using requestAnimationFrame to keep in sync with the PCs framerate and to get some extra Browser optimizations that come with animationFrames. Right now I am not calculating Delta Time, so the whole engine will speed up and slow down with your PCs frame rate. I might do so in the future, but this isn't supposed to have an endgoal.. It was just fun to build.
The Pathfinding Algo is the same A* Implementation as in my other Repo, which is as optimized as it gets.
Also, only Layers that are expected to have dynamic data entities are included in the Game Loop. All others are static.
Yes. That's true.. I didn't build any functionality for mobiles or even any portrait mode device.
While all the code has been hand-written by me the sprites of course weren't made by me. I am using "Tiny Swords" by Pixel Frog. Go check them out - they have fantastic stuff online.