HTML5 Game Development - Part 30 (original) (raw)

Chomebox – the game console of the future?

Google has released the Chromebox, as $329 “Web Browser in a box” small form-factor computer built by Samsung that boasts an Intel Core Processor and 4GB of ram. If it …Read more

Game Closure Poaches Zynga’s CTO Of Mobile To Lead HTML5 Game Development

TechCrunch is reporting that Laurent Desegur has been drawn away from social gaming powerhouse Zynga to join HTML5 Game startup Game Clojure. Sounds like that whole HTML5-game-thing has legs Read …Read more

The Great HTML5 Mobile Gaming Performance Comparison

This Post from Scirra, the makers of Construct 2, is liquid gold for HTML5 Game Developers targeting mobile (which is probably all of em) – it shows the performance of …Read more

The king is dead, long live the king. According to statcounter.com, last week Chrome passed IE as the most popular browser in the world. And there was much rejoicing in …Read more

Mozilla Labs releases Minimalist HTML5 Game Template

Mozilla Labs has released a barebones HTML5 Game Template that helps developers get started faster and deploy quicker. It’s not game-engine specific, but includes dependency management via volo to pull …Read more

Beginning HTML5 Mobile Game Development Course at Udemy

Pablo Farias has launched a online course on HTML5 Mobile Game Development for Beginners at Udemy.com The course counts on a little bit of JavaScript knowledge but otherwise is targeted …Read more

CodePlayer Tutorial: Make a snake game using HTML5 and jQuery

The folks over at TheCodePlayer.com have written an interactive coding tutorial that walks you through the code for making a snake-game in HTML5. The tutorial walks you through the code …Read more

The Artillery Blog: Real-time synchronous multiplayer 3D gaming with HTML5

The folks over at Artillery Games (site it currently accepting sign-ups for early access to games and dev tools) have written a blog post that talks in high level terms …Read more

Combining Easel.js and Box2d in Canvas

Justin Schrader, senior developer over at Luxanimals.com (creators of LuxAhoy) has written an informative post on how to combine Easel.js with Box2d which provides a nice in-page demo along with …Read more

An introduction to Impact JS

James Morris over at renegaderascals.com has written an introduction to Impact.js that gives a nice introduction to the popular HTML5 Game Engine along with links to other Impact.js resources. Read …Read more

Building HTML5 Metro Games For Windows 8

With windows 8 bringing HTML5 to the forefront via the Metro interface, it will be possible to build HTML5 Games as “native apps” that have access to native features of …Read more

WebGL GTA Demo

A Demo in WebGL that loads the original Grand Theft Auto data files and renders them onscreen via WebGL (the demo is limited to running around right now, with non …Read more

Nook and Emscripten: A technical look at C++ GameDev in the Browser

A blog post on tooNormal.com by Mike Kasprzak on using Emscripten to create a HTML5 game using C++. It walks through the details of setting up Emscripten and how to …Read more

Physijs: Physics plugin for Three.js

Physijs is a Physics library for Three.js built on top of Ammo.js that makes it easy to integrate 3D Physics onto your Three.js applications. Check out the site page for …Read more

HTML5 Game Development Tips From Gamzee

Sean Soria of Gamzee has posted a guest blog over at Facebook chronicling the hoops they jumped through to make a speedy, isometric game in HTML5 that would run acceptably …Read more

GDC 2012: Best practices in developing a web game

Google engineer Colt McAnlis gave a talk at GDC2012 targeted at game developers who are interested in building games on the web. Description from Youtube: There’s a new wave of …Read more

MobileGameEngines.com HTML5 Game Engine Page

MobileGameEngines.com has a nice breakdown and categorization of HTML5 Game Engines (in addition to iOS and Android ones), break engines down by Platform, 2d/3d, License and skill level See the …Read more

HTML5 Kickstarter Game Ron Paul: Road to REVOLution

Showing that the Kickstarter game trend has some legs outside of funding established developers making throwback games, a project called “Ron Paul: Road to REVOLution,” built in HTML5 garnered over …Read more