The Power of JavaScript

I’ve been out of the loop when it comes to all the web development advances that have occurred in the last five years, and am now just getting up to speed on them for a project to modernize our Asset Logistics Systems at work. The area most changed since I went into my ASP cave is JavaScript. What with all the HTML DOM manipulation methods, object oriented programming support, asynchronous calls and whatnot, it’s become a whole new playground.

Yesterday I found this incredible example of what JavaScript can do. It’s written entirely in JavaScript, no graphics, no flash, just script (I apologize for the fact that playing this will cause your browser to scroll):

There’s a larger version with music you can play. For more JavaScript game experiments, click here.