Facebook HTML5 Game Development Page

Facebook has a great page on Game Development. It provides links to a number of excellent posts on 2D development as well as some notes on available engines. The page …Read more

New Game Conference Recap

This post will slowly pull together various reactions and notes from New Game Conference. Richard Hilleman Keynote Share List

JavaScript Timers for Game Dev

(Almost) every game needs a game loop – and in order to create a game loop in HTML5 you are going to need to use a javascript timer. Why? Well …Read more

Commentary on: 5 Best Practices for Building HTML5 Game

Kai Jager writing for MSDN has posted 5 tips for best practices for writing HTML5 Games – here’s his 5 tips (with my comments on each): 1. Use a framework …Read more

Building a 3D engine in HTML5

Marius Gundersen gave a well-received talk at OnGameStart 2011 on how to build a 3D engine using 2D canvas in HTML5. The check out the HTML5-based slide deck (with interactive …Read more

Opera's introduction to WebGL

Browser maker Opera, to coincide with the release of general support in opera of WebGL has released a in-depth tutorial on WebGL that should be of interest to anyone looking …Read more

Learning Three.js: Let's make a 3d Game

LearningThreeJS.com has a great tutorial series on building a 3D Game using Three.js, so far there have been 4 installments, culminating in a neat game called Marblesoccer. The final tutorial …Read more

Introduction to WebGL (and three.js)

An interactive presentation from Google Developer day 2011 by Ilmari Heikkinen provides a nice introduction to WebGL along with a Three.js tutorial. Share List

Crafty.js Tutorial

A Work-in-progress Crafty.js tutorial – click inside of the frame and use the arrow keys to move between slides. Click on the “Run” Button to run the code for each …Read more

Three.js tutorials: Getting started and Particles

Aerotwist.com has two great tutorials on the incredibly powerful but somewhat underdocumented Three.js – check out their Getting Started with Three.js and Creating Particles with Three.js Share List

HTML5 Multiplayer Game Development

A Google Tech Talk on HTML5 Multiplayer Game Development – a little basic, but a good overview of the issues. Check out the video below along with the full slides …Read more

Tutorials Coming Soon…

We’re cooking up some mean html5-learning tutorials in the next couple of weeks… Share List