Articles tagged: Games

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• Games Gaming is one of the most popular computer activities. New technologies are constantly arriving ...
• Games/Anatomy I want to be clear that any of the above, or none of them, could be best for your game. The ...
• Games/Examples This page lists a number of impressive web technology demos for you to get inspiration from, and ...
• Games/Introduction The modern Web has quickly become a viable platform not only for creating stunning, high quality ...
• Games/Introduction_to_HTML5_Game_Gevelopment_(summary) Games built with HTML5 work on smartphones, tablets, PCs and Smart TVs. Update your game ...
• Games/Publishing_games This series of articles looks at the options you have when you want to publish and distribute ...
• Games/Publishing_games/Game_distribution Distribution is the way to give the world access to your game. There are many options available ...
• Games/Publishing_games/Game_monetization There are many ways to earn money — everything that applies to the "normal" AAA gaming world can ...
• Games/Publishing_games/Game_promotion Any way of promoting your game is good. You have a whole lot of options to chose from with most ...
• Games/Techniques This page lists essential core techniques for anyone wanting to develop games using open web ...
• Games/Techniques/2D_collision_detection One of the simpler forms of collision detection is between two rectangles that are axis aligned ...
• Games/Techniques/3D_collision_detection This article provides an introduction to the different bounding volume techniques used to ...
• Games/Techniques/3D_collision_detection/Bounding_volume_collision_detection_with_THREE.js This article shows how to implement collision detection between bounding boxes and spheres using ...
• Games/Techniques/3D_on_the_web For rich gaming experiences on the Web the weapon of choice is WebGL, which is rendered on HTML ...
• Games/Techniques/3D_on_the_web/Building_up_a_basic_demo_with_PlayCanvas Of course it depends on your approach — designers may favor the online editor while programmers ...
• Games/Techniques/3D_on_the_web/Building_up_a_basic_demo_with_PlayCanvas/editor Now you can check the PlayCanvas engine article if you haven't seen it yet, go back to the ...
• Games/Techniques/3D_on_the_web/Building_up_a_basic_demo_with_PlayCanvas/engine Now you can continue reading the PlayCanvas editor article, go back to the Building up a basic ...
• Games/Techniques/3D_on_the_web/Building_up_a_basic_demo_with_Three.js In this article we'll take you through the real basics of using Three, including setting up a ...
• Games/Techniques/3D_on_the_web/Building_up_a_basic_demo_with_Whitestorm.js Whitestorm.js is a framework built on the top of Three.js technology, enhanced by features such ...
• Games/Techniques/3D_on_the_web/WebVR The concept of virtual reality in itself isn't new, but now we have the technology to have it ...
• Games/Techniques/Async_scripts Every medium or large game should compile asm.js code as part of an async script to give the ...
• Games/Techniques/Audio_for_Web_Games By far the most difficult platforms to provide web audio support for are mobile platforms. ...
• Games/Techniques/Controls_Gamepad_API The Gamepad API is very easy to develop with. Now it's easier than ever to deliver console-like ...
• Games/Techniques/Control_mechanisms One of HTML5's main advantages as a game development platform is the ability to run on various ...
• Games/Techniques/Control_mechanisms/Desktop_with_gamepad That's it! We have successfully implemented gamepad controls in our game — try connecting any ...
• Games/Techniques/Control_mechanisms/Desktop_with_mouse_and_keyboard Ok, we've dealt with touch, keyboard and mouse controls. Now let's move on to look at how to set ...
• Games/Techniques/Control_mechanisms/Mobile_touch That covers adding touch controls for mobile; in the next article we'll see how to add keyboard ...
• Games/Techniques/Control_mechanisms/Other I hope you liked the experiments — if you have any others that you think might interest other ...
• Games/Techniques/Crisp_pixel_art_look This article discusses a useful technique for giving your canvas/WebGL games a crisp pixel art ...
• Games/Techniques/Efficient_animation_for_web_games This article covers techniques and advice for creating efficient animation for web games, with a ...
• Games/Techniques/Tilemaps Tilemaps are a very popular technique in 2D game development, consisting of building the game ...
• Games/Techniques/Tilemaps/Square_tilemaps_implementation:_Scrolling_maps This article covers how to implement scrolling square tilemaps using the Canvas API.
• Games/Techniques/Tilemaps/Square_tilemaps_implementation:_Static_maps This article covers how to implement static square tilemaps using the Canvas API.
• Games/Techniques/WebRTC_data_channels The WebRTC (Web Real-Time Communications) API is primarily known for its support for audio and ...
• Games/Tools On this page you can find links to our game development tools articles, which eventually aims to ...
• Games/Tools/Engines_and_tools The following are game engines implemented with HTML5 and JavaScript:
• Games/Tutorials This page contains multiple tutorial series that highlight different workflows for effectively ...
• Games/Tutorials/2D_breakout_game_Phaser In this step-by-step tutorial we create a simple mobile MDN Breakout game written in JavaScript, ...
• Games/Tutorials/2D_breakout_game_Phaser/Animations_and_tweens To make the game look more juicy and alive we can use animations and tweens. This will result in ...
• Games/Tutorials/2D_breakout_game_Phaser/Bounce_off_the_walls Now that physics have been introduced, we can start implementing collision detection into the ...
• Games/Tutorials/2D_breakout_game_Phaser/Build_the_brick_field Building the brick field is a little bit more complicated than adding a single object to the ...
• Games/Tutorials/2D_breakout_game_Phaser/Buttons Instead of starting the game right away we can leave that decision to the player by adding a ...
• Games/Tutorials/2D_breakout_game_Phaser/Collision_detection Now onto the next challenge — the collision detection between the ball and the bricks. Luckily ...
• Games/Tutorials/2D_breakout_game_Phaser/Extra_lives We can make the game enjoyable for longer by adding lives. In this article we'll implement a ...
• Games/Tutorials/2D_breakout_game_Phaser/Game_over To make the game more interesting we can introduce the ability to lose — if you don't hit the ...
• Games/Tutorials/2D_breakout_game_Phaser/Initialize_the_framework Before we can start writing the game's functionality, we need to create a basic structure to ...
• Games/Tutorials/2D_breakout_game_Phaser/Load_the_assets_and_print_them_on_screen Our game will feature a ball rolling around the screen, bouncing off a paddle, and destroying ...
• Games/Tutorials/2D_breakout_game_Phaser/Move_the_ball We have our blue ball printed on screen, but it's doing nothing — It would be cool to make it ...
• Games/Tutorials/2D_breakout_game_Phaser/Physics For proper collision detection between objects in our game we will need to have physics; this ...
• Games/Tutorials/2D_breakout_game_Phaser/Player_paddle_and_controls We have the ball moving and bouncing off the walls, but it quickly gets boring — there's no ...
• Games/Tutorials/2D_breakout_game_Phaser/Randomizing_gameplay You've finished all the lessons — congratulations! By this point you would have learnt the ...
• Games/Tutorials/2D_breakout_game_Phaser/Scaling Scaling refers to have the game canvas will scale on different screen sizes. We can make the ...
• Games/Tutorials/2D_breakout_game_Phaser/The_score Having a score can also make the game more interesting — you can try to beat your own highscore, ...
• Games/Tutorials/2D_breakout_game_Phaser/Win_the_game Implementing winning in our game is quite easy: if you happen to destroy all the bricks, then ...
• Games/Tutorials/2D_Breakout_game_pure_JavaScript In this step-by-step tutorial we create a simple MDN Breakout game written entirely in pure ...
• Games/Tutorials/2D_Breakout_game_pure_JavaScript/Bounce_off_the_walls It is nice to see our ball moving, but it quickly disappears from the screen, limiting the fun ...
• Games/Tutorials/2D_Breakout_game_pure_JavaScript/Build_the_brick_field After modifying the gameplay mechanics, we are now able to lose — this is great as it means the ...
• Games/Tutorials/2D_Breakout_game_pure_JavaScript/Collision_detection We have the bricks appearing on the screen already, but the game still isn't that interesting as ...
• Games/Tutorials/2D_Breakout_game_pure_JavaScript/Create_the_Canvas_and_draw_on_it Before we can start writing the game's functionality, we need to create a basic structure to ...
• Games/Tutorials/2D_Breakout_game_pure_JavaScript/Finishing_up There's always a room for improvements in any game we write. For example, we can offer more than ...
• Games/Tutorials/2D_Breakout_game_pure_JavaScript/Game_over It's fun to watch the ball bouncing off the walls and be able to move the paddle around, but ...
• Games/Tutorials/2D_Breakout_game_pure_JavaScript/Mouse_controls The game itself is actually finished, so let's work on polishing it up. We have already added ...
• Games/Tutorials/2D_Breakout_game_pure_JavaScript/Move_the_ball You already know how to draw a ball from working through the previous article, so now let's make ...
• Games/Tutorials/2D_Breakout_game_pure_JavaScript/Paddle_and_keyboard_controls The ball is bouncing off the walls freely and you can watch it indefinitely, but currently ...
• Games/Tutorials/2D_Breakout_game_pure_JavaScript/Track_the_score_and_win Destroying the bricks is really cool, but to be even more awesome the game could award points ...
• Web/API/CanvasRenderingContext2D To get an object of this interface, call getContext() on a canvas element, supplying "2d" as the ...
• Web/API/Gamepad The Gamepad interface of the Gamepad API defines an individual gamepad or other controller, ...
• Web/API/Gamepad/axes The Gamepad.axes property of the Gamepad interface returns an array representing the controls ...
• Web/API/Gamepad/buttons The Gamepad.buttons property of the Gamepad interface returns an array of gamepadButton objects ...
• Web/API/Gamepad/connected The Gamepad.connected property of the Gamepad interface returns a boolean indicating whether the ...
• Web/API/Gamepad/id The Gamepad.id property of the Gamepad interface returns a string containing some information ...
• Web/API/Gamepad/index The Gamepad.index property of the Gamepad interface returns an integer that is auto-incremented ...
• Web/API/Gamepad/mapping The Gamepad.mapping property of the Gamepad interface returns a string indicating whether the ...
• Web/API/Gamepad/timestamp The Gamepad.timestamp property of the Gamepad interface returns a DOMHighResTimeStamp ...
• Web/API/GamepadButton The GamepadButton interface defines an individual button of a gamepad or other controller, ...
• Web/API/GamepadButton/pressed The GamepadButton.pressed property of the GamepadButton interface returns a boolean indicating ...
• Web/API/GamepadButton/value The GamepadButton.value property of the GamepadButton interface returns a double value used to ...
• Web/API/GamepadEvent The GamepadEvent interface of the Gamepad API contains references to gamepads connected to the ...
• Web/API/Gamepad_API The Gamepad API is a way for developers to access and respond to signals from gamepads and other ...
• Web/API/Gamepad_API/Using_the_Gamepad_API HTML5 introduced many of the necessary components for rich, interactive game development. ...
• Web/API/Navigator/getGamepads The Navigator.getGamepads() method returns an array: the first value is null, and the others are ...
• Web/API/Pointer_Lock_API The Pointer Lock API (formerly called Mouse Lock API) provides input methods based on the ...
• Web/Apps/Fundamentals/Games references and guides provide information useful to developers creating game apps using open Web ...
• Web/Apps/Fundamentals/Performance/Optimizing_startup_performance Regardless of platform, it's always a good idea to start up as quickly as possible. Since that's ...
• Web/Apps/Tutorials/Games Here is a list of tutorials for games: Demo and source code of the classic game "Snake"
• Web/Apps/Tutorials/Games/Serpent_game This Open Web App is a simple game based on the classic "snake" game. It uses the WebGameStub ...