HTML5 game development

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Yoorah wrote on 2011-09-13 15:28

http://mabidata.net/yoorah/lolhtml5/
[SIZE="1"]use arrow keys to move, i was bored[/SIZE]

You should check out Construct 2 if you're interested in HTML5 game development. HTML5 runs on any device with a modern browser, so you can make games for iOS or whatever, if you want. I think you can make Facebook games with it, but I didn't look into it so I dunno. It is similar in some ways to Flash web games, but no plugin is required.

C2 is still very early in its dev phase, but I know the guy working on it and he's an uber pro. C2 is progressing really fast, and they are offering discounted early adopter licenses if you decide that this is something you wish to pursue. I got mine to support the project. :3 They also have a free version.

http://www.scirra.com/
Cucurbita wrote on 2011-09-13 15:33

Woah.

This is amazing.

Maybe it can even compete with flash games? I'm definitely looking into this.
Hiccup wrote on 2011-09-13 15:33

Quote from Yoorah;586343:
http://mabidata.net/yoorah/lolhtml5/
[SIZE="1"]use arrow keys to move, i was bored[/SIZE]

THIS GAME SUX!

but this is coo' might make something in my free time
Kingofrunes wrote on 2011-09-14 12:08

Adorable! I love it!

I just started getting to know HTML5 myself for something I'm working on at work. In particular HTML5 video due to this project being a mobile project targetted for many mobile devices and us needing a solution for mobile devices with no flash support.

I should try and learn how to do things like this in HTML5 and start going away from Flash.

Also, early adopter eh? I think this is something worth looking into as it could prove to be useful in my line of work later on I'm sure.

Btw, found a small glitch. If you go to the right or left when you are at the end and do so in just the right way the screen continually stutters.

Oh you're using Jquery. Very nice. I love JQuery so much. Have you heard about JQuery Mobile by chance? I started using that for my latest project and have gotten quite used to it.

On a side note I went ahead and paid the $32 for the Standard License. I'll start learning it this weekend. Thanks for showing us this!
Yoorah wrote on 2011-09-14 13:54

Quote from Cucurbita;586347:
Woah.

This is amazing.

Maybe it can even compete with flash games? I'm definitely looking into this.

Currently, HTML5 cannot compete with Flash. Flash has been around longer, is better supported and offers superior performance and features.

HTML5 however is gaining rapid traction, with all browser vendors currently in an arms race to optimize performance for it. For instance, IE9 offers DirectX GPU acceleration. So does Firefox, although at a lesser extent. Chrome does GPU acceleration through OpenGL, I believe. Other browsers are probably doing that too. And there has been heavy optimization on the JavaScript engine side, too, with Chrome's engine compiling JS to machine code, Firefox making significant performance enhancements to theirs with each major FF release, etc.

Quote from Kingofrunes;587005:
Adorable! I love it!

I just started getting to know HTML5 myself for something I'm working on at work. In particular HTML5 video due to this project being a mobile project targetted for many mobile devices and us needing a solution for mobile devices with no flash support.

I should try and learn how to do things like this in HTML5 and start going away from Flash.

Also, early adopter eh? I think this is something worth looking into as it could prove to be useful in my line of work later on I'm sure.

Btw, found a small glitch. If you go to the right or left when you are at the end and do so in just the right way the screen continually stutters.

Oh you're using Jquery. Very nice. I love JQuery so much. Have you heard about JQuery Mobile by chance? I started using that for my latest project and have gotten quite used to it.

On a side note I went ahead and paid the $32 for the Standard License. I'll start learning it this weekend. Thanks for showing us this!

Yeah, I kinda slapped that together in under a minute just for the lulz, not really knowing what I was doing. :P And you are correct, HTML5 Canvas powered games run on JavaScript. Construct 2 is merely an editor on top of that, simplifying things to make game development accessible to those with no prior programming experience, as well as speeding up development of more serious projects. At least, that's the goal.

You can also write your own plugins for it, in JavaScript, if you wish... since I think you have some experience in that field. I believe they have already published the documentation for that.

Oh, and be sure to check out their forum. The community is very nice and helpful.
Second wrote on 2011-09-14 19:53

Quote from Yoorah;587088:
Currently, HTML5 cannot compete with Flash. Flash has been around longer, is better supported and offers superior performance and features.

Are you sure? Some of the videos on the forums look better than some of the indie games on steam

[video=youtube;WK0CvqB0O-g]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WK0CvqB0O-g[/video]

[video=youtube;KXdqXZyzjmw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXdqXZyzjmw[/video]

[video=youtube;wpOzS2BdPmY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpOzS2BdPmY[/video]

[video=youtube;bNmBGXaURx4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNmBGXaURx4[/video]
Kingofrunes wrote on 2011-09-14 21:51

Quote from Yoorah;587088:
Currently, HTML5 cannot compete with Flash. Flash has been around longer, is better supported and offers superior performance and features.

HTML5 however is gaining rapid traction, with all browser vendors currently in an arms race to optimize performance for it. For instance, IE9 offers DirectX GPU acceleration. So does Firefox, although at a lesser extent. Chrome does GPU acceleration through OpenGL, I believe. Other browsers are probably doing that too. And there has been heavy optimization on the JavaScript engine side, too, with Chrome's engine compiling JS to machine code, Firefox making significant performance enhancements to theirs with each major FF release, etc.

One of the issues of Firefox is their support for HTML5 video is flimsy at best so Firefox has a long ways to go before I'm ready to really go back to them. Chrome has much better and superior support for HTML5 which is why I love it so much more. I know Firefox's reasons though. They choose to only support the OGG format cause it was open source and required no licensing unlike the other formats that Safari and Chrome support. At least in IE you can get Chrome Frame which helps with compatibility so I hear. But that's slightly off topic I'm sure.

Quote from Yoorah;587088:

Yeah, I kinda slapped that together in under a minute just for the lulz, not really knowing what I was doing. :P And you are correct, HTML5 Canvas powered games run on JavaScript. Construct 2 is merely an editor on top of that, simplifying things to make game development accessible to those with no prior programming experience, as well as speeding up development of more serious projects. At least, that's the goal.

You can also write your own plugins for it, in JavaScript, if you wish... since I think you have some experience in that field. I believe they have already published the documentation for that.

Oh, and be sure to check out their forum. The community is very nice and helpful.

Ya started looking at the beginners tutorial yesterday and that isn't going to cut it. Too simple, I need to skip to the more advanced tutorials so I can see what kind of AI is available and how I can do things programmatically in it.