Cocos2D-html is an HTML5 port of the popular Cocos2d-x library, enabling you to make games that run in a browser, using a syntax that works virtually unchanged on a number of platforms.   You can download the source as a zip right here.   The project is also available on GitHub.     In […]

  As the title suggests, Blitz Basic Plus is currently free right now, marked down from the regular price of 60$.    Blitz Basic, in their own words, is: BlitzPlus provides developers with a complete 2D programming solution for the PC. Utilising a BASIC/C hybrid language for use with its compiler, BlitzPlus is capable of […]

  When we last visited Moai land things were getting started, hot and pink; but just a bit boring.  Let’s spice it up a bit with a sprite that totally isn’t the logo from Watchmen!   screenWidth = MOAIEnvironment.screenWidth screenHeight = MOAIEnvironment.screenHeight print("Starting up on:" .. MOAIEnvironment.osBrand .. " version:" .. MOAIEnvironment.osVersion) if screenWidth == […]

  In my prior post introducing the bones of our YUI based level editor, I showed the following way of loading in a template from the server: initializer:function(){ var that=this, request = Y.io(‘/scripts/views/templates/person.Template’,{ on:{ complete:function(id,response){ var template = Y.Handlebars.compile(response.responseText); that.get(‘container’).setHTML(template(that.get(‘model’).getAttrs([‘name’,’age’,’height’]))); } } }); }   This works, but it is less than ideal.  There are […]

  In this tutorial we are now going to implement a web app end to end using YUI and hosted in Node.  It isn’t actually going to do anything much, but it will illustrate everything you need to create a client and server in JavaScript using YUI App and Node.  Over time we will add […]

  Social games company Wooga have just open sourced their HTML5 game Pocket Island.  You can read the full Pocket Islands / Magic Land ( which used to be a Facebook App ) story right here.   If we are honest, after reading that I think they are putting too much blame at the feet […]

  A couple months back took a long look at Appcelerator and initially I loved what I saw.  For those of you unaware, Appcelerator allows you to develop “native” applications for Android and iOS in JavaScript that execute in a special version of the V8 JavaScript Engine. I started developing a prototype app of a […]

  In this tutorial we are going to look at adding keyboard and mouse support to your cocos2D application.  cocos2D was traditionally used on the iPhone, so keyboard and mouse support is very touch centric, so if you are used to desktop development and things seem a bit strange, this is why. Alright, let’s jump […]

  I have recently become more and more interesting in HTML5 game development.  However, upon initial investigation I realized there are an absolute ton of libraries and tools out there.  Some of them are amazing, others… not so much.  During my research I put together notes on the key libraries, tools, books, frameworks and IDEs […]