David Deraedt

By now, you're probably aware of the fact that Flash CS6 includes several ways to export MovieClips to EaselJS SpriteSheets, for use with the CreateJS canvas-focused game library. This is great if you work with vector based assets. If this is your focus, I recently blogged about how you can improve the generated code to adapt to your needs.

I tend to think that fonts are as important in video games as they are for print or for web design. However, monochromatic fonts tend to look absolutely horrendous in games. As a player, I much prefer reading colored font which are both more readable and more consistent with the rest of the game aesthetics.

Oddly enough, Bitmap Fonts are only rarely supported out of the box in most game libraries, and CreateJS is no exception. I'm not sure if this is because the implementation of such a feature is considered trivial or for any other (valid) reason.