Sprite Sheets are a great way to reduce the number of image requests and quickly swap textures for elaborate animations. There are many ways to create sprite sheets, but the easiest approach is using a…
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Tiny Javascript Libraries
I used to do a lot of flash banner ads. Banner ads have tight requirements around file size so as not to bloat the hosting page’s download. With banner ads migrating to HTML this is…
Custom Filters with Pixi.js using GLSL Shaders
NOTE: This applies to Pixi v3 Pixi.js is Mat Groves’ lightning fast 2D rendering engine for the web utilizing WebGL or 2D Canvas. When used with WebGL it supports filters, which are basically a simple…
SVG Calendar
Happy New Year! I like to make a calendar for our family each year and doing the layout in illustrator can be rather tedious. So last year I decided to write some code to do…
Animate SVG with the Flash Timeline
Here’s an introduction video to Snap.SVG Animator, allowing you to publish animated SVG from the Flash Animation tool. Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is a powerful tool in the web developer’s arsenal. But web creators have…
Script Analog Game Design with SVG
I have a great passion for games of all kinds. Since I was a kid board games were always something I enjoyed and I even would sketch out and make up my own out of…
RequireJS better organizing dependencies
I love RequireJS. Javascript, with all it's flexibility and power, tends to lack a bit in organization and dependency management. ECMAScript 6 promises to fix with classes and modules, but until then we have RequireJS.…
Graphical Web Experiment
The Quest for the Graphical Web was an experimental presentation I put together with some amazing friends and the team at Adobe to tell the story of how the web is evolving from a graphical…
Flixel Animated TileMap
So I was putting together a game where I wanted an animated tilemap in flixel, it did not seem to have this functionality natively, so I created a class for it and thought I'd share.…
Parse XML for iPhone NSXMLParser
so here's how you parse an xml file in objective c, you include the xml in you resources folder in xcode and then we'll create a class file which acts as an NXMLParserDelegate to parse…