Games Articles
-
Introducing HumbleNet: a cross-platform networking library that works in the browser
Announcing the release of HumbleNet, a project initiated at Humble Bundle in 2015 to port peer-to-peer multiplayer games, originally to asm.js and now to WebAssembly. The current open source version of the library exposes a simple peer-to-peer API that allows for basic peer discovery and the ability to easily send data (via WebRTC) to other peers. Today, you can build a game that runs on Linux, macOS, and Windows, while using any web browser — and they can all communicate in real-time via WebRTC.
-
HTML5 Games Workshop: Make a platformer game with JavaScript!
I have always wanted to run a game development workshop, and some weeks ago, thanks to AdaJS in Barcelona, I finally got my chance. Empezamos con lleno el taller de videojuegos de @ladybenko en @CanodromBCN 👏🏻👏🏻 pic.twitter.com/FWyfcSF16R — adaJS (@adabcnjs) March 4, 2017 Best news? The materials that I created are available online! And you […]
-
Internationalize your keyboard controls
Recently I came across two lovely new graphical demos, and in both cases, the controls would not work on my French AZERTY keyboard. There was the wonderful WebGL 2 technological demo After The Flood, and the very cute Alpaca Peck. Shaw was nice enough to fix the latter when I told him about the issue. […]
-
Web Games Platform: Newest Developments
In July of 2015 we announced our Games Technology Roadmap, and we've been working steadily on addressing those pain points as shared by developers. Here's an overview of the newest platform developments and the progress we've made.
-
WebGL 2 lands in Firefox
With the release of Firefox 51, WebGL 2 support has landed! WebGL is a standard API to render 3D graphics in the Web. WebGL 2 is based on the OpenGL ES 3.0 specification, and introduces new features – many of them aimed at increasing performance and visual fidelity.
-
Firefox Hardware Report for Web Developers
Suppose you’re developing a sophisticated web game or application, and you’re wondering — will it actually be able to run? What hardware should I be targeting to get the widest possible audience? Existing hardware reports (such as those from Valve and Unity) are excellent, but represent a different group of hardware users than the majority […]
-
Control mechanisms in JavaScript games
Laptops, computers, smartphones, tablets, TVs, even fridges have one thing in common — they can probably run a browser, so you can probably play an HTML5 game on them. Rendering the game on screen is one thing, but you also have to control it somehow, and there are plenty of different options suited for various […]
-
An Interview With Giovanny Beltran, js13kgames Winner
js13kgames, a JavaScript coding competition for HTML5 game developers, announced this year’s winners a few weeks ago. Today we have an interview with Giovanny Beltran, winner of many categories at js13kgames, and one of the best entries in this year’s contest. Giovanny has been programming for 13 years, and began working with JavasScript five years […]
-
js13kGames: Code golf for game devs
How much is 13 kB? These days a couple of kilobytes seem like a drop in the ocean. Rewind back to the dawn of video game history, however, and you’ll soon realise that early pioneers had to work with crazy limitations. The beloved Atari 2600, for example, had a measly 128 bytes of RAM with […]
-
Web Font preloading for HTML5 games
In game development there are two methods of rendering text: via bitmap fonts and vector fonts. Bitmap fonts are essentially a sprite sheet image that contains all the characters of a given font. The sprite sheet uses a regular font file (traditionally .ttf). How does this apply to game development on the Web and HTML5 […]
