Tuts+ Course: Gaming With EaselJS

Instructor: Jason Green

In this course we'll be jumping right into the action and building out the basic functionality of two real game projects. Using the canvas framework, EaselJS, we'll make a simple tile based puzzle game and a scrolling space shooter. You should already have a fundemental understanding of the Canvas APIs, or you can checkout Canvas Essentials, a starter course which will get you up to speed with what's going on under the hood.

Source files for the Tuts+ course: Gaming With EaselJS

Install

Install node and npm.

Then;

npm install -g bower
npm install -g grunt

Then from the specific lesson folder you want to run

bower install
npm install

Run

Also from the lesson folder

grunt

navigate to localhost:9001 in a modern browser

Temporary fix for Easel version issue

I should have locked down the version of easel in the package.json file. At the moment the version is "*" but it should have been a specific number. For now, you can fix the problem by pointing grunt copy to the right version number.

Goto Gruntfile.js and change line 16 to 'bower_components/easeljs/lib/easeljs-0.8.0.combined.js' (or which ever version is being loaded into bower_components.

Then goto app/index.html and change line 11 to <script src="scripts/easeljs-0.8.0.combined.js"></script>

I will try to fix the issue soon.