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  This post is a table of contents of sorts for the recently completed series documenting the creation of a simple game (web application) for my daughter.  Although the game is quite simple, the application itself covers quite a bit.  There are a ton of tutorials on the internet about the various individual pieces I […]

  As you can imagine by the name “SpriteKit”, Sprites are a pretty core part of creating a game using SpriteKit.  We are going to continue building on the minimal application we created in the previous part.  I want to point out, this isn’t the recommended way of working with SpriteKit, it is instead the […]

  In this tutorial we are now going to implement a web app end to end using YUI and hosted in Node.  It isn’t actually going to do anything much, but it will illustrate everything you need to create a client and server in JavaScript using YUI App and Node.  Over time we will add […]

  In my prior post introducing the bones of our YUI based level editor, I showed the following way of loading in a template from the server: initializer:function(){ var that=this, request = Y.io(‘/scripts/views/templates/person.Template’,{ on:{ complete:function(id,response){ var template = Y.Handlebars.compile(response.responseText); that.get(‘container’).setHTML(template(that.get(‘model’).getAttrs([‘name’,’age’,’height’]))); } } }); }   This works, but it is less than ideal.  There are […]

  I recently completed work on a tutorial series A Simple JavaScript Game using Node, cocos2D, YUI and Heroku, which followed the creation of a simple app for my own use.  It was a pretty complete application with one glaring fault…  there was no persistence.  The application was hosted using Heroku’s free tier which doesn’t […]

    Picking up where our last section left off, by the end of this chapter you will be able to send a high score across the wire and process it in node.  In order to do this, we need to create a common format both our client and server understand.  In this particular case […]

    In part 1 we look at a very basic example of sending information across the wire from SFML to NodeJS.  In part 2 we looked at JSON encoding high score data, that is then sent via UDP socket to a Node server.  Now we complete the process, by having Node return high score […]

    As I mentioned earlier, I have recently discovered Node.JS.  Quick version, Node is a server side Javascript engine, allowing you to easily create applications on the server.  Obviously you could use SFML on both the client and the server but many people find Javascript a much faster language to work with.  The libraries […]