Chapter 9. Case Study: Heroine Dusk
Up until this part of the book we have talked about porting HTML5 games over to Windows 8 in theory, so I thought I would show off how I took an open-source game called Heroine Dusk and got it running on Windows 8 in only a few minutes. Here is how I did it.
About the Game
Heroine Dusk was created by Clint Bellanger. The game is a retro-style dungeon crawler that was designed to work on the Web and on mobile browsers (see Figure 9-1 and Figure 9-2).
Figure 9-1. The Heroine Dusk start screen.
Figure 9-2. Starting a new game in Heroine Dusk.
What makes this game a perfect candidate is that it offers up simple controls that work great with a mouse or on a touchscreen (Figure 9-3).
Figure 9-3. Combat is turn based.
Also, the game offers minimal animations but has a uniquely retro-graphic style that is easily identified by anyone who is a fan of this style of game (Figure 9-4).
Figure 9-4. When you pause the game you get a world map, stats, and can see your character.
While the core mechanics of the game are easy to pick up, the game offers a good amount of depth and, ...
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