Articles and Tutorials

Getting Started with EaselJS

Provides a quick overview of EaselJS, and shows how to create a simple project that animates a shape.

Layering Multiple Canvas Elements using JavaScript and EaselJS

Demonstrates how to manage multiple Stages and Canvases using EaselJS.

Playing around with the HTML5 Canvas Element using EaselJS and JQuery

Render some text on the canvas and rotate it around

Using EaselJS to display a bitmap and create some effects

Shows you how to use the Bitmap class to display an image and when you click on it do a couple effects

HTML5 Gaming: animating sprites in Canvas with EaselJS

Simple 3 steps tutorials to show you how to use EaselJS to animate sprites

HTML5 Gaming: building the core objects & handling collisions with EaselJS

Let's see how to create some of the game objects like ennemies and a platformer hero. We will also see how to implement a simple collision mechanism between them.

HTML5 Platformer: the complete port of the XNA game to with EaselJS

Article about the complete porting of a XNA game to HTML5/Canvas with the help of the EaselJS gaming framework. You can play to the game here and download the complete source code!