Melee Light Platform Fighter
Play Stable Build: http://ikneedata.com/meleelight
Join the discussion on Discord: https://discord.gg/qagFayt
Smashboards Thread: https://smashboards.com/threads/melee-light-browser-based-melee-clone-play-the-beta.439646/
Melee Light is a javascript based project, that renders the game to canvas. There's no Flash, Unity, or some other game engine here, just web technologies. The project is assembled using Webpack, run through Babel for ES6 features, and linted by ESLint.
First make sure you have node and npm installed. You should have at least node
6.X.X. Run node -v to check this.
Then install the modules by running npm install, or alternatively using
yarn init. This project was built with yarn, so that's
recommended, but either works.
Run the compile animations command (See below) first, before trying to run it. This only needs to happen once, or if you change the animations at all. This was split out for performance reasons, as it's the largest part of the codebase.
Now you're all set! See the commands below for how to build the project.
All commands are run like npm run <name> from the root of the project.
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
dev |
Run webpack and build the dev version, watches for changes |
build |
Run webpack once and build the optimized production version |
animations |
This compiles the animations, run once before playing |
serve |
Lets you play it locally at by default localhost:3000 |
├── bin # All scripts that are run offline by devs
│ └── webpack # Webpack-specific scripts
├── dist # Where the compiled code goes to be played
└── src # Application source code
├── index.js # The entry point for the application. A lean file that loads additional code
├── main.js # The main entry point for the application. Contains most everything else
├── main # Files core to the project
├── characters # Character code, including attributes and moves
│ └── shared # Shared code between characters
├── menus # Main menu, settings, character select, stage select etc
├── physics # Utilities that relate to the in-game physics
├── stages # Code to draw the stages that ship with the project
└── target # Things related to building and playing the break the targets game mode
Most likely sometime in the future.
First priority right now is Top 8, excluding ICs. But there's no reason that all of the characters can't make it in.
Ask Schmoo or WwwWario on Discord and they will try their best to help you.
Because Chrome has a bug with the vJoy drivers, it is beyond our control.
If you downloaded the game, you need to run index.html (meleelightdebug.html on older downloads), if it still doesn't load, join Discord and we'll try to help. It helps if you can post any console output.
This is a known issue.
The game is still in active development. If you want to help, you can open a github issue or post in Discord. Please provide console output, if there is any.
The Devs are trying their best to replicate Vanilla Melee, but some differences may arise.
The head Developers are Schmoo, Tatatat0, and Bites.
Join the Discord and there's a text channel you can report bugs in. There's also Custom Stage sharing, idea sharing, and much more.
Join the discord and ping the team. Help is always welcome.