Old school Atari games Robbo and Robbo Constructor resurrected in a browser with the power of CoffeeScript. The orginal game was created by Janusz Pelc for 8-bit Atari computer. Published by Laboratorium Komputerowe Avalan in 1989 (Robbo Constructor 1990).
You can play this game here: robbo.belczyk.com
Task board: Robbo tasks board on trello
I recreated this game using CoffeScript as a part of my CoffeeScript training. The first version of the game was simply an exercise and demo presenting power of CoffeeScript class system. Once I discovered how much fun I get building it I've continued work on the game as my pet project.
Main things I'm exploring:
- Mixins (most of the generic behaviours like "it can be moved", "it can be collected", "it kills you" are mixins so I can create new objects quite fast).
- JavaScript tests.
unit_tests.htmlruns all tests written for this game. - Messaging in JavaScript (more like in UI altogether).
- Bits of HTML5 (for example for playing sounds).
Game is designed as stand-alone HTML page. It means you can just checkout this repository and open game/robbo.html and play my last definition of levels.
Levels and games are stored in game/config/universe.js. You can use Robbo Constructor to edit games and planets.
Robbo Constructor allows to build games and planets for Robbo.
As it's also stand-alone HTML page there is a need for server which will save file on page request. For that reason there is game/Robbo Constructor Server.exe. When you run this program it will open robbo_constructor.htm and also console application which is a self-hosted WebAPI.
