canvas side scroller from scratch
A free platformer game — play it in your browser, no install. 2D side-scroller engine on HTML5 Canvas: smooth lerping camera, multi-layer parallax, coyote time, jump buffering, moving platforms, and buoyancy physics.
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A 2D side-scroller engine on HTML5 Canvas: a smooth lerping camera, multi-layer parallax, coyote time, jump buffering, moving platforms, and buoyancy physics.
Working code for the article "The Camera Is a Lie: A Side-Scroller from Scratch in Canvas and the Polite Lies We Tell the Player". An olive falls off a branch, rolls across a warm pastel breakfast table and reaches where it belongs — a bowl of olive oil.
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