Mary Rose Cook

Pistol Slut is a 2D side-scrolling shoot-em-up platformer that I am writing in JavaScript. The game is displayed by a Canvas element. It works in Google Chrome, Safari and Firefox in theory, but not Internet Explorer.

Demo

The most recent vaguely stable version will always be available at pistolslut.com.

Framework

I use The Render Engine by Brett Fattori. It’s a fabulous framework that handles the basics of rendering graphics and sprites to the Canvas element, moving objects, collision detection, animation and level loading.

Code

The Pistol Slut code is open source and available on GitHub. It would be a good reference for anyone who wants to learn about advanced capabilities of The Render Engine that aren’t covered in the demos that come with the framework: animated sprites, level object loading and enemies.

Features so far

A scrolling background, running, jumping, shooting, muzzle flash, bullet ricochets, enemies, snow, animated sprites, scrolling Orwellian signs.