HTML5Doctor: intro to getUserMedia API
Even though the getUserMedia API is still hot off the presses and in active development (and currently only available in Opera Labs and Chrome Canary builds) HTML5Doctor has a nice …Read more
HTML5 Game Dev Tutorials
Faster Canvas Pixel Manipulation with Typed Arrays
Paul Rouget has a writeup from how you can use Typed Arrays to “significantly increase the pixel manipulation performance of your HTML5 2D canvas Web apps.” Type arrays are pretty …Read more
JavaScript Garden
You can’t build a HTML5 Game with a good understanding of JavaScript. Enter JavaScript Garden. A site that aims to provide “documentation about the most quirky parts of the JavaScript …Read more
HTML5 Canvas Cheat Sheet
DZone has a nice Downloadable, PDF Cheat Sheet for HTML5 Canvas that covers the Canvas Element in depth, going over the basics of when using the element is appropriate and …Read more
Learning Three.js: Casting Shadows
LearningThreejs.com has a nice post on using shadows in Three.js and it’s pretty darn straightforward. Read the tutorial Share List
AppMobi CTO presentation on DirectCanvas from NewGameConf
AppMobi CTO Sam Abadir gave a nice presentation back at NewGameConf on App Mobi’s directCanvas workaround for mobile app-store apps written in HTML5. They have a full downloadable whitepaper on …Read more
Learning to Code
Before you can program game, you’re going to need to be able to code in general. The New York Times has an article on Coding startups fighting for your programming-learning-brain. …Read more
An Introduction to the HTML5 Gamepad API
ActiveTuts+ has a nice introduction to the new GamePad API that has made it’s way into the Firefox nightly build (Chrome support is coming as well.) This will allow you …Read more
The Edge of HTML5 and What's new in HTML5 Media
Two very interesting web-presentations (Edge of HTML5, What’s new in HTML5 Media) by Eric Bidelman of Google on the current bleeding edge of HTML5 as of Jan 2012, touching on …Read more
WebGL from Scratch tutorial
By way of HTML5GameDevs, nice tutorial on coding WebGL from the ground up written in annotated-source-code style. Check out the live demo. Share List
Internet Explorer 10 Guide for Developers
The Windows Internet Explorer 10 Guide for Developers provides an early look at the developer features coming to the next version of Windows Internet Explorer, as well as the latest …Read more
Random Notes on WebGL
Armin Ronacher has written an excellent tips article on WebGl that includes valuable information on resource management, shader preprocessing and the limitations that WebGL presents. These are all based on …Read more
Procedural Textures in HTML5 Canvas
An excellent article by Kas Thomas on generating Procedural Textures in HTML5 Canvas using Perlin Noise. Some examples: (the code is embedded in the blog post and must be cut-n-pasted …Read more
Intro to Box2D: physics simulations for HTML5 games
Seth Ladd, a developer advocate at Google put together an excellent, in-depth intro presentation on using Box2D as a physics simulation in HTML5 Game. It covers which port of Box2D …Read more
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. …Read more
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