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The CAAT library is really cool for doing html5 games. I was impressed by the demo they had for the library. So i started to think of simple game ideas that i could quickly implement using this library and make it look good as well. Im' always in a rush to finish coding the games ive' started writing so they miss the fine touches of ui animations and stuff. I thought this could be a good library to start experimenting with to get some thing up and running really fast. Since this is the first time i'm using this library i haven't really used it the most effective way but I did have a lot of time to fine tune the gameplay and artwork. Im' yet to integrate the score board into the game but i'm pretty happy with the way it stands right now.

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The basic idea in the game is to be able to jump to three different heights and the user has to choose wisely based on the obstacle course. The aim is to last as long as possible and collect as many squares as possible. I wanted to add different costumes and stuff which is pretty straight forward but for now it has only one droid suit. I hope to get this up and running for android device soon.  Technically you should already be able to run this on any html5 compliant device but the performance may be a problem.

You can check out the game in action in the video below. You can also check out the homepage for the game at sites.google.com/site/vkgamedev.

 
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