Mysticism Pageant: Enchanted Forest [DONE]

[zovirl]

Would you have a standalone version of this I could put into the official archive? (a zip of the webpage would be sufficient). Nice to have these around for posterity.

Yes, I can get that for you tonight.

[mildmojo]

Nice work. This is pretty relaxing. I'm glad you were able to bend <canvas> to your will. =)

I like the space bar as the action key. Mine's stiffer & clackier than I'd like for this game, where the focus is on the experience. I think it could use a little light music or some sparse sound effects.

How did you process the web font? Was that done in real time, or did you download the font and alter it?

[Lixel]

Throughly enjoyed this one. I ran through the forest a few times before I decided to stop and slow down, kind of your point, which I think is brilliant. The experience was wonderful, the only thing it really lacks is sound.

[zovirl]

Glad people are figuring it out. I didn't want to be too heavy handed (which would feel odd given the subject matter) but I was hoping people wouldn't miss it either.

Re. sound/music: yeah, it really needs it. I didn't really have time but I should probably come back and add it.

Re. the font: I downloaded the font as a .ttf file. Then I used python and PIL to write text into 1-bit images at a low resolution then scale the image up to screen size (resut: pixelated text) then color the text and apply a subtle drop-shadow to make it stand out from the background.

I really wanted to do this all in javascript but as far as I can tell there's no easy way to turn off antialiasing in <canvas> and there's no easy way to turn off interpolation when scaling. Result: blurry text. It was easier to just pre-process the whole thing via python.