Chapter 6. Fighting
Relative to interactive fiction and shooters, fighting games are a new genre, but as longstanding franchises like Street Fighter indicate, they are not going away anytime soon. Whether you’re on the professional circuit or in your living room, 30 seconds to kick, punch, and fireball your opponent can be a pretty intense experience. To that end, in this chapter, we use the game.js engine to make our first two-player game.
Recipe: Getting Started with game.js
game.js is based on the Python game-making library pygame. If you have some familiarity with that engine, many of the methods and classes will be familiar to you, but it would be difficult to say that knowing one would make you an expert in the other. Even if you feel ...
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