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Example of an HTML Canvas.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML5 Canvas Game</title>
<script type="text/javascript" src="canvas.js" ></script>
</head>
<body>
<h2>Left/Right to Move. Space to Jump.</h2>
<canvas id="canvas" width="640" height="320" >
Your browser doesn't seem to support the canvas tag...
</canvas>
</body>
</html>
/*
Included with the permisson of Jonathan Evans (@joneapple on Twitter)
*/
var width = 640, height = 480, canvas = null, ctx = null;
var x = 0, y = 0, vel_x = 0, vel_y = 0, prevTime = 0;
var keys = new Array();
// Key constants
KEY_SPACE = 32;
KEY_LEFT = 37;
KEY_UP = 38;
KEY_RIGHT = 39;
KEY_DOWN = 40;
// Game constants
MAX_VELOCITY = 12;
ACCELERATION_RATE = 2;
GRAVITY_RATE = 2;
JUMP_VELOCITY = -18; // negative # to go up
FPS = 60;
PLAYER_SIZE = 50
var FLOOR = 320;
window.onload = init;
function init()
{
canvas = document.getElementById("canvas");
ctx = canvas.getContext('2d');
setTimeout(gameloop, 1000 / FPS);
FLOOR = canvas.height - (canvas.height % 32);
setInterval(gameloop, 1000 / FPS);
}
function gameloop()
{
update();
draw();
//setTimeout(gameloop, 1000 / FPS);
}
function update()
{
// Handle left/right movement
if(keys[KEY_LEFT] == true)
{
vel_x = (vel_x < -MAX_VELOCITY) ? -MAX_VELOCITY : vel_x - ACCELERATION_RATE;
}
else if(keys[KEY_RIGHT] == true)
{
vel_x = (vel_x >= MAX_VELOCITY) ? MAX_VELOCITY : vel_x + ACCELERATION_RATE;
}
else
{
vel_x *= 0.8; // decelerating
}
// Handle up/down movement
if(keys[KEY_SPACE] == true && y+PLAYER_SIZE+vel_y >= FLOOR)
{
vel_y = JUMP_VELOCITY;
}
else
{
vel_y = (vel_y > MAX_VELOCITY) ? MAX_VELOCITY : vel_y + GRAVITY_RATE;
}
// Floor collision
if(y+PLAYER_SIZE+vel_y > FLOOR)
{
y = FLOOR-PLAYER_SIZE;
vel_y = 0;
}
// Adjust player's velocity
x += vel_x;
y += vel_y;
}
function draw()
{
var d = new Date();
var diff = d.getTime() - prevTime;
prevTime = d.getTime();
ctx.clearRect(0,0, canvas.width, canvas.height);
ctx.fillStyle = "rgb(180,180,180)";
var size = 32; // square size
for(var i=0; i<canvas.width; i+=size)
{
for(var j=(i/size%2==0)?0:size; j<FLOOR; j+=size*2)
{
ctx.fillRect(i,j, size, size);
}
}
ctx.fillStyle = "rgb(200,0,0)";
ctx.fillRect(x, y, PLAYER_SIZE, PLAYER_SIZE);
ctx.strokeStyle = "#000";
ctx.beginPath();
ctx.moveTo(0,FLOOR);
ctx.lineTo(canvas.width, FLOOR);
ctx.stroke();
ctx.fillText(diff + ' ms', canvas.width - 50, 10);
}
// Key events
this.onkeydown = function(event)
{
keys[event.keyCode] = true;
}
this.onkeyup = function(event)
{
keys[event.keyCode] = false;
}
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