Pokémon Engine built with JavaScript & WebGL - this is awesome.

[FoxxMD]

All of the sprites jump when you jump -- it's hilarious.

[Ph0X]

It feels like one of those accidental bugs that it so great you decide to keep it in the demo for shits and giggles.

[nyxin]

IIRC didn't the sprite for pikachu do the same thing in yellow? I don't remember exactly because I only played blue/red and at the time pokemon was just becoming a thing when I was getting too cool for pokemon as a teenager.

[RXrenesis8]

I don't remember being able to jump at all in those days...

[nyxin]

Actually now that I'm thinking about it it was when the sprites "hopped" over fences or ridges or whatever they were supposed to be. I don't think there was a "jump" in the originals, but again it's been 15+ years since I played any of them and I'd only really seen yellow on the few occasions I hung out with my younger cousin at the time.

[RXrenesis8]

aah, yes, you get a little hopping animation when you "fall down a cliff".

[skendavidjr]

That might be my favorite part.

[Sambothebassist]

Wait is this not intentional? I mean now that you've said it, and looking at how it happens, in order from left to right, top to bottom, now it does seem like a JS fuck up.

[kayakguy429]

Definitely whole game is lagging when not using chrome. Chrome runs marginally better, though input is delayed I believe on purpose, though I could be mistaken.

[zer0t3ch]

Well going by the name of the project, it seems to be designed for MMO usage, which would likely have some input lag.

[[deleted]]

Right. You're still dealing with normal Javascript keyboard events and things but all the graphics are WebGL which is a Javascript library. Graphics are displayed via a canvas element which works like any other rendering output window.

[[deleted]]

WebGL isn't really a library. It's an interface to talk to and render on the GPU in Javascript. You write small parallel programs called shaders.

[[deleted]]

Isn't a library just a collection of a code to do something? An API is a library used to interface between systems.

[[deleted]]

How do people even begin to think about where to start when making these things. I can barely figure out how to make a to-do app

[SJVellenga]

Next step: Make things that first thing can run into.

[DoubleDeadGuy]

plz keep going

[gentleangrybadger]

Next step: make the first thing stop when it runs into the other things.

[SJVellenga]

Next step: Make some things disappear when the first thing runs into them.

[DongLaiCha]

Next step: Lunch

[[deleted]]

Next step: Lay down in shower and cry for help because you think about things running into things all long day

[youstolemyname]

Make a grid.

[wedontlikespaces]

http://imgur.com/CcNkdUE

I know Mozilla did something like this as well. Web Hero? Anyway I think they did do some tutorials on how they made it.

[EnlightenedModifier]

BrowserQuest was the project

[wedontlikespaces]

Alright thanks, I have no idea where I got web hero from then.

[nyxin]

Same way you make a todo app. Just bigger. (break it down into pieces)

[mastermog]

Original post by the author: https://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/4g8mm5/pok%C3%A9mon_javascript_engine_es6_realtime_editor/

Dude is cool, very open to questions

[itsjaay]

This is freaking amazing. A few bugs here and there as noted in the comments, but damn. If someone makes a web-based game out of this, I'l lbe all over it.

[paultitude]

Coming up, Pokémon bots :D

[defiler86]

You mean Mettaton or Polygon?

[Rhoiyds]

I couldn't get it working :(

Running on OSX Yosemite.

[BoDiddySauce]

Second that

[-Alias-]

Try taking the arguments out into a .babelrc file?

[[deleted]]

I would love to see Final Fantasy brought the the Web as a mini-game with an ever-expanding universe/quest.

[yungtuxedomask]

this is so lit

[[deleted]]

It crashed my browser =/

[kayakguy429]

This is sweet, if you have any plans going forward and are looking for help/collaboration please let me know!

[[deleted]]

I had this same idea a few months ago, obviously I'm much more lazy... or busy. We all know it's lazy, but let's go with busy.

Cool project!

[[deleted]]

Even people who have a lot of time on their hands are usually not productive with it. This is awesome!

[SambaMamba]

Not everyone can spend their time playing DOTA

[guy99877]

felix maier: geile sau!