Project 2 Overview - Game or Interactive Experience

Checklist! ... to succeed at this project, you need to know (or know how to) ...

1. Control:
2. capture keyboard events (See Kaleidoscope demo)
3. capture mouse input (see Paint App)
4. capture multiple keys simultaneously with Key Daemons
5. Canvas:
6. preload images (See JS Image Slideshow Demo)
7. draw an image on the canvas (HTML5 Canvas Image Tutorial)
8. draw an image animation on the canvas using a Sprite Sheet
9. draw a particle system to the canvas
10. Audio:
11. play 2 sounds simultaneously with the <audio> element
12. use a sound library to play a lot of sounds simultaneously
13. More JS:
14. JS Object Literals
15. JS Module Pattern
16. JS Function Constructors
17. JS Object Delegation (OLOO - "Objects linked to other objects")
18. Object.defineProperty()
19. Object.seal()
20. Object.freeze()
21. Object.create()
22. pause/unpause a game with window.onblur & window.onfocus
23. smooth your animations with dt ("delta time")
24. cancel your animations with window.cancelAnimationFrame()
25. manipulate the value of this with Function.bind()
26. Game Topics:
27. game screens and states
28. circle collision detection
29. bounding box collision detection
30. build an approachable game
31. add depth to your game