MocoSpace launching five new HTML5 games
GameZebo has a post on mobile social networking platform MocoSpace‘s launch of 5 new HTML5 games: FunPark Friends Pet Hotel Dream Vacation Crazy Gems Private Joe: Urban Warfare MocoSpace got …Read more
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ImpactJS Resources and Giveaway
Andrzej at dev.end3r.com has put together a nice post on talking about the Impact.js engine (which has a book now) and is holding a giveaway of 5 Impact licenses for …Read more
O'Reilly publishes first game-engine specific HTML5 Book (on Impact.js)
O’Reilly media has published one of it’s world-renowned Animal Cover books on HTML5 Game Development titled: Introducing HTML5 Game DevelopmentDeveloping Games with Impact It’s a short book (120 pages) but …Read more
How Construct 2 helps make HTML5 work
A nice blog post on the Scirra Blog (Scirra are the makers of the Construct 2 HTML5 Game IDE) that could rightfully be called “Shooting down some of the myths …Read more
PayOne HTML5 API by PaymentOne
Mobile payment company PaymentOne has launched a new HTML5 Payment API with the goal of allow developers to create write-once cross platform games with HTML5 and but take advantage of …Read more
HTML5 Gaming – what are we talking about?
Mark from Spacemonster.co.uk has written a post titled “HTML5 Gaming – what are we talking about?” discussing the ever changing conversation from “Hey this looks like cool tech” to the …Read more
HTML5 Rocks new site relaunch
HTML5 Rocks, a Google sponsored project aimed at pushing the web forward has relaunched with a nice new theme and some new organization and content. Check out the Gaming landing …Read more
Response to: Why developing an HTML5 game is too damn risky
A blog post on ektomarch.com makes the case as to why developing a HTML5 game is too damn risky, based on the appearance and presence of browser bugs (he specifically …Read more
TechCrunch: Gamification Grows Up
TechCrunch has a post talking about how the phenomenon known as Gamification has grown up, quoting Gartner recommendation that all CIOs should have gamification on their radar and research from …Read more
AppMobi launches playMobi: HTML5 App Monetization and Development tool
Mobile HTML5 App Platform appMobi has launched an HTML5 Monetization and Socialization platform that works seamlessly across multiple platforms: iOS, Android, Facebook and straight HTML5. It uses the payment processing …Read more
Double Fine's Kickstarter Adventure
In what is a first of most likely many not-quite successful attempts to follow – the Double Fine Adventure Kickstarter project raised over 1 million dollars in a single day. …Read more
How Zynga Is Transforming Games With HTML5
ReadWriteWeb has an interview with Zynga Germany CTO Paul Bakaus about how Zynga approaches HTML5. Zynga currently has 4 HTML5-based games: Words With Friends, FarmVille Express, Zynga Poker Mobile Web …Read more
AirMech goes Native Client
What does HTML5 Game Development encompass these days? That’s a tough question when you consider Google’s Native client (NaCl) – it’s definitely not HTML/CSS/JavaScript based, but at the same time …Read more
HTML5 only: no flash on Chrome Android
Adobe released a statement confirming that since development of Flash mobile has stopped, there will be no forthcoming release of Flash on the newly-released mobile browser. This confirms what most …Read more
Study: U.S. gaming population has nearly tripled in three years
Venturebeat reports: The number of people playing video games in the U.S. has risen 241 percent since 2008, according to a new study from market research and consulting company Parks …Read more
Chrome for Android: mobile GPU accelerated Canvas FTW!
Google introduced Chrome for Android helping catch the Android browser up with iOS Safari with support for GPU acceleration of the HTML5 Canvas element along with support for requestAnimationFrame. Chrome …Read more
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 …Read more
Open Web Games with HTML5 & JavaScript by Rob Hawkes
Rob Hawkes, Mozilla Evangelist, and of HTML5 Rawkets fame gave a presentation at FOSDEM 2012 that covers a lot of ground on the current state of HTML5 Game Development and …Read more