Tech Demo: JavaScript Tyrian

Launch JavaScript Tyrian Demo

These days if you head over to ChromeExperiments.com you can see Google Chrome's V8 engine doing all sorts of things you thought it was not JavaScript's job to do. Flash back to 2007, blogger and now chief creative officer at Spry Fox, Danc, released remastered sprite art from the 1995 Epic MegaGames shoot'em'up called Tyrian. Put the two together and you get this humble little number.

Obviously this is a work in progress. My scrap-built game engine runs spectacularly well in Chrome and can get far into the hundreds of sprites on screen before slowing down, but a level designer I am not. So, if anyone is interested in doing the design dirty work, drop me a line. I've created some level design tools with about a third of the sprites I have available loaded in and I put more in periodically when I have time.