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My Hacktoberfest personal challenge: I'm writing a game in 7 days! (Day 2)

Fernando Doglio on October 04, 2019

Welcome back to my improvised dev journal where I'm recording the journey of working on my personal Hacktoberfest challenge. I'm creating a game i...
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Roee Fl • Edited

Looks really nice. Following, interested to see how it will look by the end of your week.

May I ask, how did you choose MelonJS over other similar HTML5 Game engines?

I was trying to choose one myself a few weeks ago, and it wasn't easy to figure out.

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Fernando Doglio

Thanks!
As for choosing, it wasn't easy either! I asked for recommendations a few weeks ago here in dev.to and got some good names. The bottom line is: I just looked at one of their tutorials and saw how easy it was to create a level with Tiled, so I decided for it.

Eventually I found out other tools also have integration with it or similar alternatives, but I guess they're all similar in the end, it's up to each one to figure out how they like to code.

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Roee Fl

Thanks Fernando

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Chris Achard

That's awesome! I hadn't heard to melonJS before - it looks like it gives you quite a bit to start with, so that's nice.

I also like that part of your motivation to do this is to help motivate your son :) I did a very similar thing with mine while he was learning numbers... he helped me design and build a really simple game, and he loved seeing his ideas come to life!

Good luck with the rest of your 7 days, and I'm excited to see how it turns out!

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SavagePixie

Good job! It's looking really good. And you've got me intrigued about this melonJS.

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Fernando Doglio

Thanks! it'll look better (hopefully) by the end of the weekend!

And yes, melonJS is very good!