A simple drop-in JavaScript API to play multiplayer, web-based games (with authentication, friends, leaderboards).

Used in conjunction with the Galaxy API.

Note: This project is not ready for prime time. Not an official Mozilla project. Pre-alpha everything. Anything and everything at your own risk.

Downloads

• galaxy.js
• galaxy.min.js (3.4k gzipped)

Installation

To install Node dependencies:

npm install

To set up symlinks for updating GitHub pages:

gulp symlink-git-hooks

Development

To rebuild (compile and minify) the scripts while developing:

gulp dev

Two files will be written to the dist/ directory:

• galaxy.js
• galaxy.min.js

Alternatively, to rebuild the files and documentation just once:

gulp

Documentation

To generate pretty docs from the code comments in galaxy.js:

gulp docs

Read the docs.

When updating the docs, be sure to update GitHub pages. If you install the Git hooks, you’re all set.

Resources

Gamepad API Spec

• https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/gamepad/raw-file/default/gamepad.html

Gamepad API Articles

• http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/doodles/gamepad/
• http://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/an-introduction-to-the-html5-gamepad-api--active-10686
• http://videlais.com/2013/12/24/html5-using-gamepads-as-input/

Gamepad API Testers

• http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/doodles/gamepad/gamepad-tester/tester.html
• http://luser.github.io/gamepadtest/
• http://html5gamepad.com/
• http://kallaspriit.github.io/HTML5-JavaScript-Gamepad-Controller-Library/