2. Who Are we?
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Chrome Firefox Safari Opera IE
Favorite Browser
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Mario Luigi Peach Wario Other
Favorite Character
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6. What is HTML5
Game Development?
Basically
HTML5 Game Development = Plugin Free Game Development
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7. What is HTML5
Game Development?
We don’t care much about: New Semantic Tags, MicroData
We care a little about: CSS3, Local Storage,Web Workers, GeoLocation
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8. What is HTML5
Game Development?
We Care a lot about:
Canvas, Video, Audio,Web Sockets
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9. For the most part, we’re talking
about Canvas
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11. Just give us a f^%#$ buffer already
DirectDraw (DirectX) all over again
Game Development on Windows didn’t flourish until developers got
direct access to a fast video buffer
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12. But, there’s wiggle room...
AVES Game engine uses DOM Objects for better performance
Browsers are optimized to render DOM objects
(But we may never see it, as they just got bought by Zynga...)
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20. Where we are
Q4 2010 Q2 2011 Q4 2011Q1 2010
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21. Awesome is:
20Years of Game Development
Compressed down to 2 years
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22. Next Generation of Browsers
Hardware acceleration on Canvas
WebGL (FF, Safari, Chrome)
Audio
http://www.chromium.org/developers/demos-gpu-acceleration-and-webgl
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23. Why should you care?
Top Ten Reasons
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29. Reason 3:
It’s Cross-platform
You can leverage the same codebase for a whole bunch
of different platforms
(Akihabara running on iPhone,Android, Firefox, ...)
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31. It’s kinda easy
Chances are you already know some Javascript,
so there’s not that much new to learn to make simple games
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32. Reason 5:
Casual gaming
Huge industry, with a consumer base that cares lot less about
graphics, etc than hardcore gamers used to.
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34. Indie games have a chance
MineCraft....that’s all I have to say
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35. Reason 7:
It’s coming
Apple (obviously), Microsoft are saying it’s the future
Microsoft just adjusted their SilverLight strategy.
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39. It’s Open
No restrictions on tools, open standards and
“development environments”
Closed is why I stopped game development mid 2000’s
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41. You can go back to basics
And not feel like you’re wasting your time:
Needed: 2D Physics, Collision detection,Vector Math, Sprite libraries
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43. Create Game Mechanics
that don’t suck
By moving Game development into the normal browser
environment, we’re taking it out of it’s special box.
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44. What I’ve been doing...
Trying to build as many mini-engines as possible to
get a sense for performance, capabilities,
design patterns, cross-browser support.
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45. What you can do: Present!
Libraries
JavaScript Best Practices
JavaScript Patterns
WebGL
Web Sockets
Hacking Akihabara
New Audio API
Node.js
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