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.
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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.