https://github.com/sustained/motionjs-pre-release

https://github.com/sustained/motionjs-pre-release

abandoned canvas canvas2d coffee-script game-dev game-engine gamedev open-source

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• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/sustained/motionjs-pre-release
• Owner: sustained
• License: mit
• Created: 2011-02-08T05:09:14.000Z (almost 14 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2019-08-10T10:22:24.000Z (over 5 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-12-06T19:07:40.166Z (about 1 month ago)
• Topics: abandoned, canvas, canvas2d, coffee-script, game-dev, game-engine, gamedev, open-source
• Language: CoffeeScript
• Homepage:
• Size: 923 KB
• Stars: 2
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 1
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# MotionJS-pre-release

## Why open-source an 8 year old project?

Because it's something I can put on my portfolio/résumé, quite simply.

## Are there any games you can release that are using this engine?

No, sorry. I lost all of the source to my pre-MotionJS and post-MotionJS games due to HDD failure.

Additionally, I never really did get all that far along with this project. It was far beyond my capabilities from the beginning. So it never really did get to a stage where it was even suitable for me to build games in it, I don't think.

## What are the origins of MotionJS?

A long time ago I became quite interested in game development and indeed it's something I've experimented with on and off over the years, working with technologies such as Pygame (Python), LÖVE (LUA), SMFL (C++) and Unity (C#).

But in the beginning, my foray into game development began with web technology.

Around the time when the [Canvas API](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Canvas_API) became a thing, I for whatever reason decided that I wanted to try to make my own JS-based game engine/framework.

I had a few unfinisehd game prototypes under my belt by this point, namely a Worms clone, a Pokemon clone and a top-down physics-based space combat shooter.

But I didn't really want to make a game anymore, I was more interested in the technology behind the game. Plus the maths and the physics (linear algebra etc.).

Thus MotionJS was born.

I had no idea what I was doing from the very beginning and I was absolutely not a good programmer at all at the time. Here be potential dragons.

Also note that some of the code is based on code or ideas I found elsewhere, just rewritten in my own at-the-time style and in CoffeeScript.

## What is the future of this project.

Nothing, unless for some strange reason someone else decides to use it.

### Updates

There will be no updates to this project. Do whatever you want with it, that's why I released it as MIT.

### Support

There will be no support given to users of this project. You're entirely on your own.