Developing a simple HTML5 Canvas Space Shooter

The mozilla hacks blog has an interesting article on building a simple 2D space shooter with both single-player and multi-player support. While not a full tutorial, it provides a good post-mortem breakdown on various problems, solutions and tricks.

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