One sprite per animation and each animation has several frames. Each character has 36 different animations i.e. one sprite for high punch another sprite for low kick, etc. When I said 360 animations I meant 10 fighters * 36 animations each.

Thanks for the advice.

There will be 10 or so fighters (360 animations!) so I was hoping that there is a way to add them without having to add each sprite individually to a layout. Perhaps an "add all files from folder" kind of option and then have the sprites only in an "Object types" folder as opposed to spread across the layout/margins. Currently, I'm thinking I'll give each fighter's animations its own unused layout. It should make it much easier to find a specific animation if it needs to be changed.

I'm making a fighting game and each fighter has 36 separate animations. How do I add all 72 (both fighters) to a layout? I've been adding them as sprites. Placing them in the margins seems impractical. Is there an alternative?

Thank you.

Mipey You are now the master of being too literal. Obviously I meant the canvas element.

It was Apple who invented the canvas.

Velojet That's exactly why I like C2 so much. I would never have the patients to write a JS game engine myself... well, maybe if I was determined to become the living dead <img src="smileys/smiley11.gif" border="0" align="middle" />.

Now that I've spent more time doing native mobile development I actually understand the need for subscription based software: things change too fast. It isn't the good old days of write for DirectX once then let the money roll-in. You have to constantly update your software. Furthermore, your software has to work on every phone! As far as online programming goes - I hate it! All those ridiculous, subtle cross-browser differences. I don't care which browser it is, but I wish we just had one browser (okay, maybe not IE due to no JS strict mode). I suspect Ashley and Tom are being underpaid, but they must be a tough-as-nails programmers to want to do online (shudder). When C2 is finished I would support switching to subscription based sales as HTML5 is probably moving faster than mobile and thus requires constant updating.

EDIT: Finished isn't the word (it might not ever be 'finished' as the standards keep growing), but there are a few important features missing that keep C2 just shy of being subscription ready.

I'm very much looking forward to ES Harmony replacing ES5 (which with strict mode is already a reasonable language) in Q4 2013. I doubt Dart will have any impact.

Edit:

I haven't put it to the test, but it looks like it could be very useful for controlling the memory usage of your game.

Memchaser

Is it possible to override or modify C2 loading everything on start with the plugin sdk?

The game I'm working on a will be ~100MB, but each layout has few assets <15MB.

Here's what my post should have said:

Congratulations! I'm glad your efforts and expertise are getting recognition.

This isn't an ogg debate thread and I don't want it to get derailed.

Lets be clear about this ogg is not out of its patent lifetime. So far it has been freely available, but it could be the victim of a submarine patent. Browsers have a reason to stay away - it was the W3C that removed ogg as a recommendation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use_of_Ogg_formats_in_HTML5