HTML5 Game Development - Part 27 (original) (raw)
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
MMO Experiement of XKCD's 1110
The folks at PubNub have hosted a MMO World based on XKCD’s Comic 1110 masterpiece titled “Click and Drag” (which would be a 1 terra-pixel image w/o blanks removed) This …Read more
JS13k Contest Entries & Winners
If you haven’t had a chance to check out the entries in the JS13k game contest – now is your chance to play them as well as view the contest’s …Read more
CoffeeScript Source Maps
One of the primary reasons developers give as staying away from CoffeeScript in the browser – the need to debug generated code – is no long a valid reason. Support …Read more
Escape Goat, HTML5 Version
In what is hopefully a continuing trend of charming indie games making their way to HTML5, Escape Goat has released a Beta of their HTML5 version (Free to play through …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
4-Part Creating a Simple Windows 8 Game with JavaScript Tutorial
Chris Bowen has written a 4-part series on SitePoint on creating a game for Windows 8 using JavaScript. The tutorial series walks you through the steps of building Catapult Wars, …Read more
Twinkle Pop: 5 platforms, 1 code base
Twinkle Pop is a casual game of the bubble-popping variety developed by Bluega. It’s developed on their proprietary BXG engine for which they’ve developed packaging tools that package the game …Read more
Painting the DOM to Canvas with Domvas
Domvas is a tool that uses what amounts to a backdoor via SVG to allow you to turn DOM elements into images that can be painted onto a Canvas. Why …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
Atari HTML5 Arcade
Atari and Microsoft have teamed up to create an HTML5 version of the Atari online arcade (online at http://arcade.atari.com/ – DNS seems screwed up at the moment), optimized for multi-touch …Read more
Mozilla's BananaBread: Cross-compiled Cube2 FPS in the Browser
BananaBread is Mozilla’s code-name for their port of the Cube2: Sauerbraten game engine to JavaScript using Emscripten. It uses WebGL, the Fullscreen API and the PointerLock API to provide a …Read more
WebGL Inspector
WebGL inspector is a tool let’s you dig down into your WebGL calls and see exactly what’s going on. From the website: “WebGL Inspector is a tool inspired by gDEBugger …Read more
MIOP: WebGL Global Game Jam entry
MIOP, which was an entry in this year’s past Global Game Jam, stands for “Monster is other people” and is a reference to the Existentialist phrase “Hell is other people.” …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
WebGL Deferred Irradiance Volumes
Real-time lighting and shadows make for an impressive WebGL demo (provided your GPU is up to snuff.) Continuing a trend of pushing WebGL to it’s limits, Florian Boesch shows one …Read more
Doodle Jump recreated in HTML5
Kushagra Agarwal (@SolitaryDesigns) has recreated the well-known native mobile game Doodle Jump in HTML5 and has put the code up on CSSDeck.com for easy review and experimentation. Share List