Lessons from Om Nom: How ‘Cut the Rope’ shows the future of Windows and the web

GeekWire has was amounts to a post-mortem interview with ZeptoLab the folks behind the well-received HTML5 version of Cut the rope.

Some good quotes:

Ingebretsen: The sound bite version of that is that you have to write JavaScript like you’re writing JavaScript. Most languages that are compiled, you write with an eye toward a certain set of principles, like not rewriting the same code more than once. JavaScript, because of its nature, you have to bend your understanding of how you write code just a little bit. You have to write JavaScript for JavaScript.

And

Ingebretsen: Nobody should have any concerns about making a bet on HTML5. That’s my biggest takeaway.

Good stuff from a couple of folks who have pushed HTML5 Gaming forward some significant leaps.

Read the full interview


You might also find this interesting:


  1. Understanding JavaScript OOP Quildreen Motta, a front-end developer based in Brazil wrote an excellent in-depth write-up on Understanding OOP in JavaScript that is a great read for anyone building OOP games in JavaScript....

  2. The Future of Games on the Web Rob Hawkes has written an excellent post on the future of Web (particularly plugin-free HTML5) games. One of his main points is that people have been porting games from other...

  3. Mozilla Vision 2012: The Future of HTML5 and Web Technologies The Mozilla conference is currently going on in Tokyo, Japan and Chris Heilmann, Principal HTML5 Evangelist at Mozilla has put together a blog post and presentation on the future HTML5...

  4. Nintendo Web Framework Nintendo announced the upcoming WebKit and HTML5-based Nintendo Web Framework at GDC this week for the Wii U Details are still sketchy but details of the GDC session are: The...

  5. Spaceport.io report shows iOS destroys Android in HTML5 performance Spaceport.io, the GPU accelerated mobile game engine that allows you to build games using JavaScript with a Flash-like API has released it’s latest perfmarks, Spaceport’s HTML5 performance-benchmarking suite that shows...

HTML5 News