HTML5 Game Development - Part 16 (original) (raw)
Pure CSS Platform Game
Is it possible to make an HTML5 game with CSS only? No Javascript? The answer is apparently yes. Here’s a platform game that was made with pure CSS code. The author …Read more
Casual HTML5 Game Streams Music from Soundcloud
You know you’re in for a different kind of experience when a game starts with a health hazard advisory. If you have Photosensitive Epilepsy, you might suffer a seizure from …Read more
Color Spin Game Will Test Your Color Vision Acuity
Color snobs of the world, here’s a new HTML5 game you will probably enjoy. Color Spin is an endless runner that will test how well your eyes can distinguish colors. …Read more
Pong Game with SVG.js
We were recently introduced to SVG.js, a library for manipulating and animating SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics). The library boasts of having no dependencies and aims to be the leanest of …Read more
Imagining the Future Using WebGL
Kasperksy Lab, the global cybersecurity corporation, recently launched the Earth 2050 website. It features detailed predictions by experts and futurologists for 2030, 2040, and 2050. The site, which uses WebGL …Read more
Lance: Real-time Multiplayer Game Server
Developing a good game is an undertaking that is fraught with many challenges. Those challenges are multiplied if you want to create a real-time multiplayer game. The authors of Lance, …Read more
Sketch What You See Hidden in the Clouds
Heard of the term “pareidolia”? Neither have we, until we played this new HTML5 game called Hidden in the Clouds. We’ve always known that the human brain always fills in …Read more
Planck.js – JavaScript Rewrite of Box2D Physics Engine
There’s a new 2D physics engine in town called Planck.js. It is a JavaScript rewrite of Box2D, the free, open source 2-dimensional physics game engine famously used to create Angry …Read more
Phaser Tutorial: Creating a Simple Card Game
You can find a number of tutorials online on how to make card games. This latest one focuses on HTML5 deck of cards management with Phaser. The tutorial says that you …Read more
Phaser Arcade Slopes Plugin
Great news for Phaser buffs out there. If you’re using the Arcade physics system, you’ll know that it’s notorious for not being good at handling slopes. Devs have come up …Read more
An RPG About Game Developers
Someone had a brilliant idea to develop a game where game developers themselves are the main characters. And boy are we glad they didn’t lose that “spark of inspiration” and …Read more
SpeedLazer – 2D Side-scrolling Shooter
Those who grew up playing SNES console games will be hit with nostalgia big time when they try SpeedLazer. This 2D game is reminiscent of such games as Gradius, Phalanx, …Read more
Wexha Planet
This demo created by NasimiAsl lets you explore a small planet, devoid of anything but with a magnificent view of the cosmos. Called Wexha Planet, the project was created using BabylonJS. …Read more
Press Red Button to Open StarGate
“It will take you a million light years from home.” That’s what a StarGate does according to the 1994 film, but how do you activate one? For this StarGate, all …Read more
Fast Burglars – WebGL Vehicle Game
This new game is titled “Fast Burglars” but we think it’s not so much about crime-fighting than it is about exercising your control skills. Built using Three.js, the open-source indie game …Read more
Amazing Japanese Interactive Mash Up Video
Even if you don’t understand Japanese, this interactive mash up video will daze and amaze you. This has got to be the most elaborate advertisement for a cookie brand. Japanese …Read more
Climatune: Playlists for Different Types of Weather
What happens when Spotify and Accuweather collaborate on a project? You get the world’s largest-scale research that has ever tried to find out the relationship between the prevailing weather and what …Read more
Chased by a Naked Monster with a Big Knife
You know you’re gonna get spooked out of your wits by a game when the opening music to it is an eerie music box tune that conjures up in your mind …Read more