Project that aims at creating a game engine in JavaScript using Megaman 2 on NES as guide. WebGL is used as renderer and despite Megaman 2 being a 2D game it is run in 3D space using THREE.js as 3D lib.

Deployed at http://megaman.pomle.com/

This project have generated the SnakeSilk Game Engine and the following libraries:

• snakesilk-engine Simple game engine providing game Entity, Timer, Scene, etc.

• snakesilk-xml-loader Loader creating entities and scenes from XML.

• megaman-kit Components for creating Megaman games.

Follow the project blog at https://medium.com/recreating-megaman-2-using-js-webgl

• Clone repo.

    git clone https://github.com/pomle/megamanjs.git
    cd megamanjs
  

• Install dependencies

    yarn install
  

• Start; should open game in a browser.

    yarn start
  

• Make sure you are running Node.js >= 7. Installation instructions for your platform can be found at https://nodejs.org/en/download/package-manager/.

    node --version
  

• Install dev dependencies.

    cd megamanjs
    yarn install
  

• Run test suite.

    yarn test
  

  The test suite begins with running a Mocha unit test in Node. After that a Chrome window should open and run a browser test.

Contributions are welcome.