Spaceship in Trouble

A small WebGL game written in TypeScript, ThreeJS and some other libraries. It was written in order to demonstrate the power of WebGL games as they are easy to write, cross plattform and the performance isn't too bad

May I see it in action?

Yes you may! Checkout the latest stable version or just clone the project and build it on your own. If you're interested in the code you'll get the latest commits here in this github repo. You may also browse through the Cloud9 Code Repo (could be a few commits outdated) or watch the apidocs.

What if something doesn't work?

The status of this is pre-alpha yet and there may be several bugs but feel free to open an issue if you want something to be fixed.

Typescript? Why?

In order to see if it's worth the effort. This is my first larger TypeScript project but I'm already loving it. It produces almost exactly the code I would write when using plain JavaScript but helps my IDE with AutoCompletion, Typechecks and so on. It just adds some convenience stuff to my beloved JavaScript while not affecting its performance or possibilities, so why not use it?

If you don't like it but want to use parts of my Code just compile it to JavaScript and work with the compiled result.

Did you do this all on your own?

Of course not. I used various libraries, tools and assets... The entity / component system is heavily inspired by the TTJS Engine, a port of the famous TouchThing Engine which Christoph Schnackenberg and I created a few years ago.

Libraries

• ThreeJS
• Lodash
• Stats
• Box2DWeb

Tools

• Typescript
• Wings3D
• Gimp
• Blender
• Cloud9
• PHPStorm

Assets

• Some models from opengameart.org (cco)
• One or more textures on this project have been created with images from Goodtextures.com. These images may not be redistributed by default. Please visit www.goodtextures.com for more information.

Sounds awesome, may I join?

Sure! Just fork the project, play around with it, create issues for new features and drop me a message if you really want to add some code or assets.

Some parts look more like an engine than an actual game, do they?

You got sharp eyes over there. Yep, they do! I plan on separating engine and game later on and use the game just as an example for how to use the engine. But as of this very early state of the project it's muuuch easier to have both projects combined in one as there will be lots of api changes.

As soon as the project reaches a more stable status and the api becomes to be more stable, too I'll separate those two projects. Though both projects will remain under the MIT License. Promise.

Why aren't you using Unity3D or Unreal Engine?

I played around with both and yes, they're awesome (see http://blog.jbrosi.de for my experiments). You can focus on the game and don't have to mess around with stuff like how to render graphics, how to handle input and how to display HUD-Stuff. Also both support (as with unity 5 and ue4) WebGL builds which may run in plain js/html5 within your favorite browser or native builds for more speed on your favorite mobile.

Though as the title of this repo says this is not only about the game! It's more about to show what's possible with html5 on its own. The game engines use tools like emscripten to convert c++ to javascript / asm.js.

I am not trying to compete with the professional game engines but want to show the power of modern webapps. See this as a proof of concept.

That's quite cool, may I use it?

The project is released under the the MIT License (MIT) so you should be able to use it for almost everything you need. Be careful when using the libraries and assets as they may fall under other licenses.

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2014 - 2015 Johannes Brosi me@brosi.me

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