In a departure from my usual go-to drawing package, PaperJS, I’ve been wanting to try out something new which could handle textures, sprite animations, and generally be more suited to make any future mini games/projects with. So, I found Pixi.JS, and thought I would see how it works, and what it is capable of doing by making a small game.
Loosely based on those games adverts I seem to see everywhere, where you are typically fighting off hordes of oncoming zombies, I decided to make a version related to football, which my children could play. So instead of zombies, you are fending off rival football supporters as you try to make your way to the stadium. I was going for a retro look with the graphics style inspired by my favourite classic NES games.
At some point it’d be nice to add some audio, some character animation when the footballs hit people, and maybe some power-ups similar to the legendary super shots in Nintendo World Cup 😄.