My Ajax ScriptsAjax and Web2.0 directory

A little while ago I decided to learn something about game development. Being a die-hard web developer, coding games was something completely new, so I started looking for a good language to learn game development in. Obviously C++ is the most popular language for creating commercial high-end games, but the OpenGL and DirectX API’s were both really hard to understand, especially in an unfamiliar language.

I then came across a book about developing games with Microsoft’s XNA Game Framework using either C# or VB. I quickly learned the C# syntax, which I found out is easy to learn for an (OO) JavaScript developer, and within hours I already had textures flying over my screen controlled by my keyboard and the basics of a simple game.

I then started thinking about how cool it would be to create games just as easily in JavaScript and decided to port the XNA Framework over to JavaScript using Canvas as the rendering device. I quickly had a lot of fun doing so, and learned much about the internals of game development by reverse-engineering the XNA API to JavaScript.

I decided to name the framework GameJS, since I got alot of inspiration from the ExtJS source code. I have always been a fan of ExtJS and the way it is structured.