HTML 5 2D Game development: Sprites

Like other art forms, such as movies, plays and novels, games have a series of characters, each of whom plays a particular role. For example, Snail Bait has runners (game leads), coins, rubies, sapphires, bees, bats, buttons and a snail, and most of these characters are shown in Figure 1. In the 1th article in this series (see Sprite: The actors section), these characters and their roles in the game are already covered.

Figure 1. The characters of Snail bait

Every character in Snail bait is a sprite. Sprite are graphical objects that can be given behavior, such as runners running, jumping, falling and colliding with other Sprite in the game, while rubies and sapphires can shine, bounce up and down, and disappear when they collide with runners.