HTML5 Game Development - Part 28 (original) (raw)
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
Pointer Lock and First Person Shooter Controls
HTML5Rocks has an article on using the newly minted Pointer Lock (which prevents the cursor from hitting the edge of the game area in, say, an FPS). It also goes …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
Three.js + ImpactJS = Crazy cool
The folks over at asmallgame.com have created a Impact.js game demo rendered in 3D with Three.js based on the ImpactJS Jetpack Physics Demo. It shows off some nice 3D effects, …Read more
HexGL: HTML5 futuristic racing game
HexGL is an extremely impressive WebGL based racing game that let’s you race in a futuristic world (wipeout style) entirely in the browser, built with Three.js. It’s built by Thubaut …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
Colbalt Calibur 3: Open-source Canvas+Node MMO
Colbalt Calibur 3 is an real-time-ish multi-player MMO that uses Canvas and Node.js. It’s open source duel licensed under the BSD/GPL.
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
DivSugar, a CSS-based 3D Graphics Engine
DivSugar is a CSS3 based 3D graphics engine. While it’s not as performant as a WebGL might be for full games, the fact that it uses CSS3 means that it can easily be integrated into existing sites and be used for casual games.
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
Brendan Eich's JavaScript at 17 from O'Reilly's Fluent 2012
JavaScript creator Brendan Eich has a great talk about JavaScript at 17 years old, it’s history, trials and tribulations and it’s future. Share List
JavaScript Physics Engines Comparison
Chandler Prall has written an article comparing four JavaScript Physics engines: box2dweb – a port of Box2DFlash 2.1a to JavaScript (2D) Ammo.js – an Emscripten port of the Bullet physics …Read more
Gameboy Color Emulator
Grant Galitz has posted a working GameBoy Color emulator written in JavaScript. The source code for the emulator is up on GitHub. The demo currently includes a bunch of ROMs …Read more
PlayCanvas WebGL 3rd Person Multiplayer Demo
HTML5 Game creation tools PlayCanvas has released a 3rd-person multiplayer shooter demo on their engine that uses WebGL, Web Audio API, WebSockets and has support for the Gamepad API, Pointerlock …Read more