HTML5 Game Development - Part 31 (original) (raw)
VIM Adventures
Mixing two of my favorite things, the venerable text editor VIM and HTML5 Games, VIM Adventures is a great way to learn the world’s best text editor. Share List
BuildNewGames.com launches
A Microsoft sponsored site focused on building games for the open web called BuildNewGames.com has launched. Built by Boston JavaScript shop Bocoup and stocked with in-depth articles on various HTML5 …Read more
Canvas v5 API Additions
While not in any sort of sexy blog-post format, Ian Hickson has posted a list of additions to the Canvas V5 API on the whatwtg mailing list. Some nice looking …Read more
April Fools: Not-quite-multiplayer HTML5 Asteroids
Launching the HTML5 Asteroids on Seb.ly you’re immediately surrounded by gaggle of smooth-scrolling ships, all seemingly attacking each other. Is it really a multiplayer asteroids with over 1800 connections? After …Read more
Google Maps 8-Bit Quest Tower Defense
Does it count as a game or just a mash-up of an elaborate Google April Fools job? No one knows – but I do know that Duncan Barclay’s turning Google’s …Read more
GDC 2012: Porting your game to NaCl
Google engineer Colt McAnlis gave a talk at GDC 2012 talking about the nuances of porting your existing C++ game to Native Client. Here’s the description from YouTube: “We’ll talk …Read more
GDC 2012: The Bleeding Edge of Open Web Tech
Google software engineer Vincent Scheib gave a presentation at GDC 2012 on Open Web Tech about what’s new in the past 6 months including Web Sockets, WebGL, File API, Mouse …Read more
Lux Ahoy
I usually try not to link to HTML5 Games unless they are open-source or least have unminified source code, but every once in a while a game (such as Cut …Read more
Terrain Generation with Canvas and JavaScript
Somethinghitme.com has an oldie-but-goodie post from 2009 titled “Terrain Generation with Canvas and JavaScript” that talks a little bit about the algorithms used and links to a working 2d terrain …Read more
Tron: a Canvas game in 219 bytes
Alok Menghrajani has a fantastic write-up on how he and some coworkers were able to build a fully-functioning HTML5 game using canvas in 219 bytes, including all the page HTML. …Read more
Chrome 18: Canvas2D GPU-acceleration + WebGL SwiftShader
The latest stable release of Google Chrome, Chrome 18 includes some change that should make HTML5 Game Developers happy. It enabled GPU-acceleration on Canvas2D on supported Windows and Mac computers. …Read more
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Adobe taking percentage of "Console Quality" Games created using flash
Adobe is looking to charge developers who use Adobe’s Premium features for Gaming, which means using 3D support with Stage3D and domain memory a percentage fee of 9% on revenue …Read more
Browser Quest: Massively Multiplayer HTML5 Game w/ Websockets
Mozilla has launched a realtime Massively multiplayer HTML5 based Game called “BrowserQuest” that uses Websockets and Canvas. The Mozilla hacks blog has a writeup on the game and the source …Read more
Introduction to JavaScript source maps
HTML5Rocks has a tutorial introducing JavaScript source maps, currently available in Chrome Canary or WebKit nightly (not Firefox love yet). For everyone who’s made the jump to Coffeescript, the one …Read more
Google working on a unified gaming platform
Google is working on a unified gaming platform aiming to unify it’s various gaming initiatives under a single umbrella of Google Games. So says google project manager Punit Soni: By …Read more
Itsmy launches mobile HTML5 Gaming platform
Itsmy has launched a new HTML5 mobile gaming platform targeted at all mobile devices, including tablets. MobileMarketingMagazine.com writes: “The itsmy Game Cloud is finally a way to sell HTML5 games …Read more
Pokki 1UP HTML5 Game Dev Contest Wrap-up
Pokki’s inaugural HTML5 Game Dev Contest ended on March 6th and drew a lot of attention from Indie game developers, with over 60 games submitted in 60 days. 4 Horseman …Read more
The more things change…PhobosLabs: Hate IE with a Passion
Dominic, the guy behind that small, not-at-all-popular HTML5 Game engine called Impact.js just published a nice rantish post on called Hate IE with a Passion which outlines the reasons why, …Read more