Behavior in games is in many ways defined by the interaction between entities. A turret fires at an enemy, a player trades with another player, a hero goes on a quest that in turn belongs to a faction, a spaceship docks to a space station orbiting a planet in a…

A guide on destructuring a nested object enclosed within an array. — I recently published two articles that explain destructuring for arrays and objects. We can also use destructuring when we are working with nested data structures such as a nested object. Let’s start by looking at destructuring a nested object enclosed within an array. const cats = [{ name: "Molly"…

Source: Conditional Types What are types? Types describe the set of possible values we are working with in a particular piece of code. Often what we use are pre-defined static types such as number, string, a class or an interface describing a specific object shape. However, there’s nothing to say…

Part 2: Printing characters on canvas — You can read the previous article of this series here. Important Edit: The reader Mike Bender, wrote this reply: The premise of this article, that “the canvas function fillText… has poor quality”, is incorrect. You can absolutely draw text on a canvas with fillText and have crisp text with subpixel rendering. …