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IGDA-TC Presentation on HTML5 Games

published:: 2011.06.10
topics:: games; javascript; speaking

I spoke at the Twin Cities, Minnesota chapter of the International Game Developers Association on Wednesday, June 8 about the current state of making games with JavaScript and HTML5. Here are my slides.

Ready to Play: JavaScript / HTML5 Game Development

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5 Comments…

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Eli Grey launched this comment T plus 14 years.

You should've mentioned in your WebGL slides that FPSes are impossible due to no mouse capturing support in any browser yet. FPSes are a pretty significant fraction of all games.

Zachary Johnson (Author) launched this comment T plus 14 years.

Well... first person shooters aren't impossible (Google ported Quake II to WebGL), but considering that browsers can't capture the mouse if it is outside of the browser window that does pose some problems for wide spread adoption of the genre by its audience.

Steve launched this comment T plus 14 years.

great presentation. It was a nice primer for me on web programming since I have no practice doing it.

Steve launched this comment T plus 14 years.

I noticed your games using the engine are not full screen. Is it difficult to use HTML 5 in full screen? I notice some of the flash games can toggle to full screen. If that is done in HTML 5 does the user have to F11 first, or can it be done from code?

Zachary (Author) launched this comment T plus 14 years.

HTML 5 video can go full screen in webkit, but full screen canvas tag has not yet arrived. My understanding is that it is being considered by the browser vendors.