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		mryall on Aug 10, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The challenges of Creating a Civilization Web Game Here's an example of what I mean. It only works in Firefox, unfortunately, but shows the concept of using raster sprites within SVG: http://www.mattryall.net/demo/civ-svg/ SVG is by no means a solid game development platform, but it is some interesting browser-based technology which might be useful for game developers to investigate.

cellis on Aug 10, 2009 [–]

Pretty smooth demo :). I see what you mean now, but i was going on the assumption that in a turn based game he wouldn't need to do much transformation, hence, my suggestion to just use pngs and allow the browser to redraw them.

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