Croissant Hoops – GlimmerJS Game Demo

The team behind EmberJS has given us a new toy in the form of GlimmerJS. This new DOM rendering engine was released just a few months ago. Croissant Hoops is a prototype game created to explore this new web development technology.

EmberJS, as many of you know, is the popular open-source framework for creating single-page web apps. GlimmerJS uses the Ember CLI and promises to be one of the fastest DOM rendering engines. It provides a low-level pipeline that allows your code to run as fast as possible.

Croissant Hoops is a simple basketball game where you aim to shoot a tiny ball into a tiny basket. The basket moves to a different position every time you sink a ball. You’ll discover that scoring even a single point can be quite challenging. But at least you have a guiding arc to help you.

An interesting feature of the game is the Gravity slider. It allows to you increase or decrease gravity’s effect on the balls.

You can read about how the game was created here.