HexGL, one.color, fs.js
webgl
libraries
html5
filesystem
HexGL
HexGL is a WebGL-powered racing game similar in style to WipEout, developed by Thibaut Despoulain. It’s built using three.js, and is a pretty solid and fun game. One aspect that impressed me is there’s a selector for changing the quality, based on settings tailored for “Mobile”, “Mainstream”, and “Ultra” – the author suggests that the game should always run at 60fps.
Thibaut is planning on open sourcing the game, and his blog has a feed so you can stay up to date that way or by following @BKcore on Twitter.
one.color
one.color (License: BSD, npm: onecolor) is a browser and Node colour manipulation library. Morgan Roderick suggested this library on Twitter after seeing our jQuery Color coverage, and also pointed out that one of the creators has posted a video about it: Peter Müller: One-color.js.
This library has a chainable API, supports alpha channels and colour names, and has Vows tests to back it all up.
fs.js
fs.js (License: MIT, npm: fs.js) by Manuel Astudillo is a wrapper for the HTML5 File API, based on Node’s fs module. It’s got some Mocha unit tests, and supports the use of prefixed file systems:
var sizeInBytes = 1024 * 1024
, prefix = 'filetest';
FSFactory.create(sizeInBytes, 'testfs', function(err, fs) {
fs.read('foo', function(err, data){
// data contains file contents.
});
});
