It is quite interesting to see how technology moves in circles. With canvas being the new fun toy to play with for creating browser-based games we have to find solutions to fake a 3D environment to be really fast (sure there is Canvas 3D but it is overkill for most games). The trick is to [...]

Tim de Koning has done what folks do best with their winter holidays…. created something fun With JSC64 he has ported the Flash version to give us an emulator for the Commodore 64 in JavaScript.
Tim’s work uses Canvas and he provides a jQuery plugin if you are that way inclined. It is fun to check [...]

We received an email from Joesph Huckaby about his new JS-based game rendering engine and I have to admit that when I first read about it, I was a little skeptical about it mainly because I’ve been disappointed with many that I’ve seen in the past. As I dug into his site, Effectgames.com, my whole [...]

The week is almost over, and that means it’s Fun Friday! Ajax and HTML5 aren’t just for serious business apps (”business in the front, party in the back”):

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This week we have JS Wars from Jonas Wagner:

There are a couple of unique things about this game that makes it a good educational [...]

Scott Schiller, favourite DHTML hax0r, pointed us to Vanthia “a browser based Massive Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game in development.”
The game appears to use Mootools for the underlying library, the UI is quite well done and the map uses an isometric, pixel-based style.
Check out the forum.

Martin Kool and Sjoerd Visscher have gotten many of the old Sierra Online games running on the Canvas tag, including many of the Kings Quest series, Space Quest series, and Leisure Suit Larry.

Martin Kool describes some of the long process it took to get these into the shape they are:
In 2003, I created [...]

We usually post these on Friday, but who says a little fun on Monday is wrong? Paul Brunt has put together a nifty game using the Canvas tag. It’s pretty impressive. He is also using Chrome Frame to have the game work on IE as well.

Play it now

Jeffrey Rosen has taken a look at a preview of WebGL landing in the WebKit project. The demo above is an example of this work (here in HD):

WebGL is basically an initiative to bring 3D graphics into web browsers natively, without having to download any plugins. This is achieved by adding a few things to [...]

Fancy a break? Take Mr. Speaker’s little JavaScript platformer for a spin.

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John has been working on a very fun scrabble typing game called Deep Leap and although he hasn’t finished it yet, people found it (John, time to learn about .htaccess ? Just to tease him a little more and get the word out before it is finished, check it out!