Saturday, September 27, 2014

Game-development Log (7. Attack and explosions)


Work-in-progress: https://site-win.azurewebsites.net

On my last post I've added interactivity to the units. On this post I'm taking it further by adding an attack option and corresponding explosions :)

First of all I've included an extra tank on the map that's not controllable by the player. Hence, a nice target to be attacked (although non-destructible).

The attack is triggered in the same way as a regular movement, by dragging the unit. When on-top of another unit it changes to an attack cursor, showing additional info.


I've implemented the explosion using the particle lib at http://scurker.com/projects/particles/


To place the explosion on Bing Maps I've used the pushpin's "htmlContent" property to create a new canvas where the explosion is rendered.

I've also used a custom html pushpin to display the attack details. For now only the range isn't hardcoded.

And that's it for now.


Wednesday, September 24, 2014

Saturday, September 13, 2014

Game-development Log (5. CDN Caching for map tiles)


Work-in-progress: https://site-win.azurewebsites.net

The map that was displayed on my previous post was using an Azure Web-Site to render the tiles. On this iteration I've included a CDN so that the tiles are cached and the latency is minimal when serving them.

Generically speaking this is my target architecture including a CDN:


  1. The map displayed on the browser requests a tile to the CDN
  2. The CDN checks if it contains the image or not
  3. If not, it queries the tile-server for that particular image
  4. The Tile Server generates it as described on my previous post
  5. The CDN stores the image tile 
  6. The CDN returns the image to the browser