CHAPTER 8

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Extending EaselJS Display Objects

So far, you’ve used EaselJS display objects to add graphical game elements to the stage. You’ve seen situations where you have needed to add some custom properties and methods to these display objects to help program the game logic around them. So far, the process of dynamic injection has been used to accomplish this. With this approach, you are essentially extending the functionality of these objects, but when doing this on-the-fly approach, your game can quickly become messy and hard to manage. In this chapter, you’ll learn how to build and organize new, custom objects that inherit from EaselJS display ...

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