This is a continuation of Show & Tell #7′s round up. Check part one here.
HTML5 Games
So where are the HTML5 games? I thought the “Flash-killer” had arrived?
Actually, there have been some cool HTML5 based games knocking around recently. These are mostly proof of concept games though, and nowhere near the level of Zombie Tycoon etc. Come back in 10 years for that.
Here are a couple of nice ones though that are worth a look…
Actionscript legend Grant Skinner was commissioned to create this one for Microsoft’s IE9 Beauty of the Web campaign. It’s a classic tower-defense game but some nice touches in there. Most interesting is Skinner’s EaselJS Javascript library that makes the HTML5 transition easier for people from a Flash background.
An update to the classic Line Rider for the HTML5 era. very nicely done.
Really like this one. The game premise is bollocks but the attention to detail and the implementation of physics in a JS game is impressive.
Hadouken!
Wallaby
Another headline grabber from Adobe this week was the launch of codename ‘Wallaby‘. In a nutshell, Wallaby takes a Flash file (.fla) and converts it to a HTML5 version. It’s not quite a magic bullet yet as there are some pretty major features that aren’t supported yet but it shows some definite promise. I’ll hopefully do some experiments myself and report back.
Motion Graphics Design Lecture
We also had a chat about the Motion Graphics Design lecture that I’ve covered in detail already here, check it out.
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