HTML5 Game Development - Part 39 (original) (raw)

Intro to Box2D: physics simulations for HTML5 games

Seth Ladd, a developer advocate at Google put together an excellent, in-depth intro presentation on using Box2D as a physics simulation in HTML5 Game. It covers which port of Box2D …Read more

Understanding JavaScript OOP

Quildreen Motta, a front-end developer based in Brazil wrote an excellent in-depth write-up on Understanding OOP in JavaScript that is a great read for anyone building OOP games in JavaScript. …Read more

HTML5 Gaming 2011 and 2012

Justin Siegal , the CEO of Boston based mobile social network MocoSpace was written an article on forbes titled The 10 Most Important Events In Mobile Gaming In 2011. Regarding …Read more

Nokia WebGL Maps 3D

Nokia has released a WebGL 3D Maps page that lets you zoom in from way out in space all the way down to the city level. This is an incredibly …Read more

WebCraft – A MineCraft classic clone in WebGL

An interesting use of WebSockets and WebGL to create a multiplayer MineCraft-like demo in the browser. Share List

Pokki $50k HTML5 Game Development Conference

Pokki, a platform for building Desktop App with HTML5 recently announced a contest with 50kinprizes,wherethewinnergets50k in prizes, where the winner gets 50kinprizes,wherethewinnergets30k and a trip to GDC in 2012. Submissions …Read more

3D Nyan Cat

A 3D Nyan Cat built in WebGL using Three.js. Share List

JavaScript ray tracer

A neat example of a Ray Tracer built in CoffeeScript and running in JavaScript. Share List

Chrome will receive Gamepad, Microphone and Webcam support

Google developer Advocate Paul Kinlan announced at the Develop conference in Liverpool that Chrome is going to get a number of Game-friendly features in Q1-Q2 2012 – specifically Gamepad support …Read more

Facebook HTML5 Game Development Page

Facebook has a great page on Game Development. It provides links to a number of excellent posts on 2D development as well as some notes on available engines. The page …Read more

New Game Conference Recap

This post will slowly pull together various reactions and notes from New Game Conference. Richard Hilleman Keynote Share List

JavaScript Timers for Game Dev

(Almost) every game needs a game loop – and in order to create a game loop in HTML5 you are going to need to use a javascript timer. Why? Well …Read more

Commentary on: 5 Best Practices for Building HTML5 Game

Kai Jager writing for MSDN has posted 5 tips for best practices for writing HTML5 Games – here’s his 5 tips (with my comments on each): 1. Use a framework …Read more

Gorgeous HTML5 WebGL Procedural Terrain Generation

A Gorgeous demo using Three.js and WebGL showing birds from RO.ME flying over a landscape. Share List

ShapeSmith: a WebGL 3d Modeler

ShapeSmith is an open-source WebGL based 3D Modelling project that aims to make “creating printable 3D models accessible to anyone with a modern browser” – but it could definitely have …Read more

Unity will support HTML5 at some point

Mobile and Web gaming juggernaut Unity has come forward and stated that eventually they will support HTML5 Interesting comments form the CEO: Helgason said he wants Unity to be ready …Read more

Building a 3D engine in HTML5

Marius Gundersen gave a well-received talk at OnGameStart 2011 on how to build a 3D engine using 2D canvas in HTML5. The check out the HTML5-based slide deck (with interactive …Read more

Microsoft HTML5 Game Camp Nov 17th

Microsoft is hosting a free HTML5 Game Camp on Thursday November 17th at it’s N.E.R.D. center in Cambridge MA – looks to be a lot of fun and a good …Read more