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So the source code for the examples is available.. that's good. But tonight I decided to just start programming in vanilla javascript. I will look at MelonJS whenever I have time. I think I will want to use it for final version of my game, since it uses webGL. I just did a test using canvas draw, and I can draw about 600 instances of a three-line asteroids ship rotating before it starts to slow down. But I'm sure people's phones won't be so fast. I'll need webGL. Thank you again

I think maybe I should start developing my game just using html5 canvas, no webgl engine. It's a simple vector line drawing style like Asteroids. But I want to learn how to use Melon js. There will be no big hurry, but if you can help me get started, I'll appreciate it. And actually, I want to create youtube videos for beginners like me so more people can use melon.js. I just need some extra help from you to get me started. So again, my question is, how can I use your example programs? There is no code I can find to download.

Thanks for your reply. The examples on that page look interesting, but it's difficult for me to try them for myself. I go to the page, but all I can do is run the examples, and there is no code to download unless I view the page source and then try to assemble the whole project myself, but that too hard, and many things can go wrong. How can I try the examples? Thanks!

Oh well, looks like the door must be closed to beginners. Too bad. Melon seems like an awesome library with great features. I'm disappointed that the barrier to entry is so steep and nobody has realized this is a grave mistake. I'm going to say goodbye now, and use pixi. How many hundreds or thousands have checked out this library but gave up and silently disappeared? My advice, if anyone cares about your library, is - take a few days out of your schedules and write some simple tutorials. Proper app setup, hello world, load a sprite, draw a line, check for key or mouse input - simple things, one at a time - working examples people can just copy and paste and not a big complicated complete arcade game - and end up wondering why they won't run because they don't have something installed that nobody told them about. Thanks, and good luck.

I just saw another tutorial elsewhere about digdug. He says to use github and clone and don't fork, and I don't know about any of that. Does your boilerplate tutorial require a github account to coordinate everything? I don't have that and don't want it at this point.

Okay, I followed your link and it doesn't work either. By the way, pixiJS works fine, and I was running simple tutorials in minutes. It seems that your tutorials need tutorials to tell you how to use the tutorials. I just spent over an hour trying to start over, using the code from your GIT link, then I had to add the resources files but it still just ran a black screen. There are PNG files referenced that are not included: { name: "tileset", type:"image", src: "data/img/tileset.png" }, { name: "background", type:"image", src: "data/img/background.png" }, { name: "clouds", type:"image", src: "data/img/clouds.png" }, I'm super frustrated after 3 days of this. Three days. I don't want to use pixi. I want to use MelonJS. I want to do this just using VS code editor, local apache server, and my browser. I'm not ready to get into complicated frameworks yet, or node and all of that. I want to learn this and make my great simple game. Question #1. Can you help me get this running without node or grunt? A complete tutorial project without any missing files or graphics? I'm even willing to use Grunt. But I don't know how to do it and get your boilerplate running. Question #2. Can you show me that node and grunt are easy - and explain how to set them up? Your instructions everywhere are way too terse and require prerequisite knowledge. Beginners can't understand. Are you trying to discourage beginners? I do have node installed. But I don't know what this means: git clone https://github.com/melonjs/boilerplate.git Where do I run that command? Then how do I do this: npm install -g grunt-cli Is Grunt already included with Node?

Hello, I just browsed through all of the threads. Nothing to help my issue. I have downloaded and tried the boilerplates platformer and space invaders. No matter what I do, nothing runs. Just a black screen. I'm running them locally, using a Laragon apache server. The documentation seems to say that I don't need to use nodejs or grunt. But the boilerplate git says I need both node and grunt. I've been trying over and over, different ways, since yesterday, and I'm about to quit. Can someone help me get these things running? Thanks!