melonJS Framework

You now have a level that could be used in a variety of game engines, but we use the melonJS framework for this HTML5 game. The framework code comes in a raw format that you will need to compile to have a minified version for use in your game. Download the latest version of the code from the melonJS website (http://www.melonjs.org/). You can download the zip, or clone the github repository (https://github.com/obiot/melonJS). I chose to download the zip file, which is just a tagged version of the source code.

Now we need to compile the source. There is a script that compiles the source, but you need to create a build directory first (or edit the Makefile if you are comfortable), then run the make command in the melonJS source ...

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