Constructing the Landing Page
Although it is web-based and hosted by a web server, there is a critical principle at play for Space-Truckers: the game that we haven’t done much but hint at previously. That principle is that we want to, by all means necessary, avoid using the HTML DOM in the game. Now, to be fair, it’s not a total blanket ban on using HTML or CSS anywhere, just anywhere important. The reason for this is we want to give our future selves a gift that makes it seamless to target Space-Truckers to Babylon Native; code that uses the HTML DOM isn’t compatible with BJS Native. That said, there is still the need to do a little bit of HTML and CSS work to make the landing page a little bit more hospitable to visitors.
The Concept (Art)
When Space-Truckers was just in the process of being conceived as an idea, early concept sketches were useful in helping to establish various different aspects of the look, feel, and setting of the game. The following...