{"id":684,"date":"2012-08-22T18:35:07","date_gmt":"2012-08-22T22:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joshho.com\/blog\/?p=684"},"modified":"2012-08-26T10:08:51","modified_gmt":"2012-08-26T14:08:51","slug":"html5-pacman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joshho.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/22\/html5-pacman\/","title":{"rendered":"HTML5 – Pacman"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was talking to a colleague the other day about HTML5-Snake, and somehow the conversation drifted to Pacman…<\/p>\n

After a weekend of investigating the Pacman (enemy) strategies, I took a break from doing EulerProject questions<\/a>\u00a0and began work on it.
\nIt seemed simple enough: the background was pre-made, (sprites were handmade), \u00a0and it seemed very do-able.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

It took me 2 days for the base code, +1 for memory\/cpu profiling.
\nIt is without sound, but I think it’s quite playable.<\/p>\n

You can try it out here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Some things I learned from this:<\/p>\n

    The JS garbage collection can quickly degrade user experience, keep new objects to a minimum, reuse.<\/ol>\n
      For-loops can be optimized into do..while loops, as long as you have a negative counter and a check against zero.<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      I was talking to a colleague the other day about HTML5-Snake, and somehow the conversation drifted to Pacman…<\/p>\n

      After a weekend of investigating the Pacman (enemy) strategies, I took a break from doing EulerProject questions<\/a>\u00a0and began work on it.
      \nIt seemed simple enough: the background was pre-made, (sprites were handmade), \u00a0and it seemed very do-able.<\/p>\n

      \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

      It took me 2 days for the base code, +1 for memory\/cpu profiling.
      \nIt is without sound, but I think it’s quite playable.<\/p>\n

      You can try it out here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[48,25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joshho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joshho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joshho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joshho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joshho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joshho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joshho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joshho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joshho.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}