The Isometric Game Engine is a project to make cool games you can run in your browser*. Checkers is the first game made with the engine, involving essential game elements such as creating a board, moving pieces around according to the rules, and capturing pieces.
What makes IGE special is that instead of using Flash player to render and animate the game, it uses SVG. The advantages of SVG over Flash are:
*Please be aware that the main developer, Vezquex, tests IGE primarily in Firefox, but that it is targeted to run in Opera as well. No support for Internet Explorer is currently planned due to its lack of an SVG renderer.
If you are having performance issues, decrease your window size.
Study the source code to find the Steven Colbert reference!