Development Tools Converting into HTML5/JS games Want to convert your games into HTML5 & JavaScript? Check out some of the resources below. https://github.com/kripken/emscripten http://www.mandreel.com/ https://developers.google.com/playn/ http://phonegap.com/
Game Development Zombie Holiday makes Google Store Homepage! Update 12/14 - In the last 7 days Zombie Holiday was viewed over 47,000 times! This past weekend my game, Zombie Holiday, made the homepage of the Google Chrome Webstore under
Game Development Mistborn 2D Sidescroller Game Design Doc Description The goal is to create a 2D side-scroller game which takes place in the Mistborn universe. The user will play the role of a young mistborn learning his/her allomantic abilities in
Development Tools Videogame Development Analytics Options Videogame Development Analytics Options: Recently I realized that Platomic.com was down and I was going to need an alternative. I did some googling to find this list of potential replacements. At some
Development Tools JavaScript algorithms I commonly use Arrays: 1. Randomly Select X items from an array with no duplicates. So let's say I have a row of barrels I want to randomly blow up, and they are represented in a
App Make your webpage act more like an iOS App If you're looking to make a webpage or entire site act more like a native iOS app by removing the status bar or removing the UI Components there's some really simple things you
Game-Dev A simple game of Pong using HTML5 & JavaScript This code is a result of a talk I gave at Manta on how simple it is to create a game using HTML5 Canvas & JavaScript. I wrote the code in an object-oriented
Game-Dev Notes on "How to program independent games" I recently watched the talk that Jonathan Blow (creator of braid) gave at UC Berkley on "How to program independent games". I found it very interesting and I thought it was
CSS3 Memory in Motion with KnockoutJS and 3D CSS Animations My goal yesterday was to get some one-on-one time with KnockoutJS as well as try out using 3D CSS effects. Since the whole 3D Flipping animation reminds me of flipping playing cards, and
Development Tools What I learned releasing my first game. I recently released my first iOS & HTML5 game Zombie Holiday. Along the way I learned quite a bit and I wanted to share what I learned with anyone else who may be
Game-Dev Zombie Christmas Concept Art Here's some concept art we got from our Graphics Designer Dave North. These photos got the team extremely pumped and they were the first work we had seen from Dave when he joined
Development Tools HTML5 Development Link Dump (9/10/2012) Informational: PlayCanvas - Launches into private beta. It's used to create HTML5 based 3D games. UnityXNA – XNA Inside Unity3D (An IDE for web game development) PixelWorld - Gaining popularity and nearning 20k iOS
Development Tools Impact Engine first impressions Two weeks ago I purchased the ImpactJS Engine written by Dominic Szablewski. It was $100. I'm usually not the type to spend money on something like this but I really needed something to
Development Tools HTML5 Development Link Dump (6/28/2012) Informational: The Open Web - and what it means - A slidshare presentation Noroff - An ImpactJS driven tutorial on how to get started making a game. Tips/Tricks Awesomeness: BeerCamp - A
Development Tools HTML5 / Game Development Editors/IDE If you're getting into Game Development using HTML5 & JavaScript you might be looking for an IDE or Editor to speed up development and make your life a lot easier. I'll use this
Game-Dev HTML5 Game-Development Link Dump 4/1/2012 Games: BrowserQuest - HTML5 Browser Based MMO Tron - Done in 219 Bytes. WeaveSilk - An awesome art generator Ro.me - A music video using WebGL to render in the browser Tech
Game-Dev Slingshot Cannonball! I decided to take my cannon ball game and switch it up a little by swapping the cannon out with a sling shot, similar to Angry Birds. I really liked the dynamics of
Game-Dev Bouncing Ball Bouncing Ball is kind of tech demo I did to play around with HTML5 Canvas and Javascript. It was my first attempt at creating "Physics". It's simply a ball that bounces
Game-Dev Craps! Craps is a game I created while following along with the book "The Essential Guide to HTML5". It's a simple dice game which shows how to draw and manipulate basic objects
Game-Dev Cannon Ball Game Cannon Ball! is a game I created that stemmed from a tutorial found in the book "The Essential Guide to HTML5". It's your typical Cannon shoots target game play. You control