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Udacity launches HTML5 Game Development Course
A new course has popped up on Udacity with a couple folks from Google teaching CS255: HTML5 Game Development, Building High Performance Web Applications. It’s not quite open for enrollment …Read more
The State of Mobile HTML5 Game Development
At last night’s Boston HTML5 Game Development Meetup I presented a yearly wrap up on “The State of HTML5 Game Development” with a focus on mobile to highlight my new …Read more
AOL Refreshes Games.com with HTML5 Support
AOL Property Games.com has launched a preview of its new redesign at new.games.com. The new site is runs on phones and tablets and is launching with 100 HTML5 titles that …Read more
Brainworth: Play games that teach you to make games in HTML5
Brainworth is a project that aims to teach you programming with a game that lets you create games in HTML5 (once you wrap you head around that, what could be …Read more
Book Review: A Tale of Two WebGL Books
I made it through Professional WebGL Programming: Developing 3D Graphics for the Web over the past weekend and picked up and read through WebGL: Up and Running this week. As …Read more
Ludei Cloud Compiler launches
Ludei, makers of CooconJS and CAAT, have announced the release of their Cloud Compiler. The Ludei Cloud Compiler allows you to take your HTML5 game and compile it into the …Read more
Candlepin: an upcoming, curated HTML5 Game discovery and monetization platform
That’s a lot of words in the title of this article, but what Candlepin creator Andrew Rabon is aiming to do is substantial: he’s looking to create a service that …Read more
FlipCode Game Development portal is back
While not HTML5-specific, FlipCode was a site that many game developers may remember as one of the best game development communities on the web and a veritable fount of knowledge …Read more
Conclave: A tabletop-inspired Multiplayer HTML5 RPG, on Kickstarter
Conclave is an extremely innovative and interesting D&D inspired multiplayer role-playing game that is inspired by the tabletop role-playing games you used to play with groups of friends. It aims …Read more
Chinese site copies Impact.js website, sells it illegally, US ISP Softlayer ignores DMCA
A chinese website has made a blatant copy of the Impact.js website, translated it into Chinese and is attempting to sell the engine at 1/2 the normal price. Users who …Read more
Gamorlive launches HTML5, location-based multi-player gaming platform
Gamorlive has launched its HTML5-based multi-player gaming platform that includes a location-based component that let’s you compete with nearby players and, much like Foresquare, become the boss of a location …Read more
Goko says sorry as it heads back to Beta
After a launch beset by scaling issues, Goko, while launched to much fanfare has issued an apology on it’s website and is taking it’s games off of general availability. While …Read more
Construct 2 r100 (& higher pricing) coming August 22nd
Scirra will ship release 100 of Construct 2 on August 22nd (tomorrow, as of this writing), which features a host of major new features in regards to WebGL tech and …Read more
Mikogo HTMLViewer: Designing and Developing for Mobile Apps
[ Note: this is a guest post from the folks over at Mikogo ] Steve Jobs was right. Flash is dead. Well maybe not dead but, as he explained in …Read more
Goko.com launching HTML5 Game portal with Dominion, Catan World
Goko has launched a HTML5 game portal for both consumers and developers. On the developer side of things, Goko provides a set of tools that allows you to do stuff …Read more
js13kGames Contest is live!
The js13kGames contest, which runs from August 13th to September 13th, is underway. The challenge is to create a game that is under 13kb when zipped up (but read the …Read more
RIP Adobe Flash on Android
ReadWriteWeb has a post on Adobe’s abandonment of Flash on Android – starting on August 15th, Flash for Android will cease to be available via the Google Play store, effectively …Read more
Artillery Raises $2.5M To Make the Browser The Console
TechCrunch has an piece on a recent 2.5M funding round by Artillery, whose tagline is “The browser is the console.” Artillery is looking to put “Real Games” into the browser …Read more