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sorry, no PR but the code is 99% there: https://gist.github.com/oberhamsi/4006869 and at least one guy (not me) used it :)

the docs sum up well how the convention works: "Each tile can hold a "block" property detailing its desired blocking behaviour. Possible blocking data values are: none, always, north, east...Several restrictions can be added separated by commas"

i also added the obvious and tiny SearchMap(collissionMap).

you could hide both as private instances in gramework.TileMap and only expose two new methods TileMap.findRoute(from, to, timeout) and TileMap.canMove(from, to).

I don't think we can make gramework engine-agnostic, but I think there may be benefits in exploring other game engines. Realistically, I don't think it'd be too difficult to swap that part, and continue to expose a similar, if not the same gramework API

I'm mostly intrigued by pixi.js, which seems to have active development and much broader use.

Although Gamejs was the first framework we found that we loved (for it's very thin layer of a wrapper), I don't think we should hold onto it if it means there's better solutions.

I'm mostly thinking of writing these games and running them on other devices. I have not tested anything yet, but I feel that an up-to-date engine like pixi.js may provide better support for that going forward.