Employee not Found

An entry for JS13KGames 2020, with the theme "404".

Technical Info

• Custom game engine with basic DisplayObject-style scene graph and essential rendering components.
• The blue top-down robot graphic from https://kenney.nl/
• gulp.js build system with modules.
• Mustache (via gulp-mustache) for template string replacements during build
• Normal web JavaScript, concatenating JavaScript files into one (via gulp-concat).
• UglifyJS (via gulp-uglify) for minifying JS, with name-mangling option enabled.
• gulp-htmlmin for minifying HTML.
• gulp-sass for variables and minifying CSS
• gzip (via gulp-zip) for compressing.
• express for local testing.

Setup

npm install

Build (no minify)

npm run gulp build

or, with gulp globally installed:

gulp build

or, in VSCode, gulp build is the default build task:

Ctrl+Shift+B

This generates src/js/bundle-wrap.js

Build (minified)

npm run gulp buildProd

or, with gulp globally installed:

gulp buildProd

This generates a folder build with b.js, c.css, index.html, and any image files.

Local Dev

npm run gulp dev

or, with gulp globally installed:

gulp dev

or, in VSCode, there is a "Gulp Dev" Launch task.

Visit http://localhost:5000

Also, there is a Launch Chrome task.

For testing minified files, run gulp prod. This will also be available at http://localhost:5000

Distribution (zip)

npm run gulp dist

or, with gulp globally installed:

gulp dist

This generates dist/archive.zip.

Postmortem

Link: https://medium.com/@jayther/employee-not-found-js13k-2020-postmortem-d4c40a9ad70c