no discredit to your developer friend, but the level of visual complexity that the OP refers to is far in advance the game you linked. Here's a video of the Av

no discredit to your developer friend, but the level of visual complexity that the OP refers to is far in advance the game you linked. Here's a video of the Aves engine in action: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ol3qQ4CEUTo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ol3qQ4CEUTo As someone building an HTML/javascript-based animated game myself[1], I'm somewhat aware of the challenges involved and am frankly amazed that the OP has this level of performance coming from HTML/js on so many different game objects. [1] http://littlecosm.com http://littlecosm.com - a massively multiplayer twitter client!