Monster of the Deep

You are the Monster...of the Deeeeeeeep

controls:

WASD to move

Space to start game

Avoid the mines and the boats

Eat the humans

You get points for air time

Personal notes:

I'm not completely satisfied with my entry this year, I feel I did better in my last compo. However to be fair I really challenged myself this time and did absolutely no prep work. I had to build my engine from scratch and only had barebones libraries to work with.

I found it really difficult going back to javascript after spending this year learning Java, and I probably won't be using it again.

Libraries

PhysicsJS - http://wellcaffeinated.net/PhysicsJS/

I used this for the collisions and to simulate the water (there is drag and boyancy

PixiJS - http://www.pixijs.com/

This handles my rendering and the canvas (or webGL depending on browser)

RequireJS - http://requirejs.org/

I mostly use this just to help me keep structure in my code.

I also used jQuery but purely for the custom events to handle the keyboard.