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HTML5 Games
for web and mobile!
@casarock
It’s me, Carsten!
Head of Development @ //mediaman
Ex-Zynga
Loves everything about Web and open
standards!
Twitter: @casarock
HTML5 Games?
HTML5 Canvas
https://www.flickr.com/photos/helico/416249293/
Short history
• Invented by Apple for their own WebKit component in OS X (~2004)
• adopted by Mozilla (2005), Opera (2006)
• standardized by the WHATWG
• now standardized by W3C!
HTML5 Canvas
https://www.flickr.com/photos/deepcaves/14567139834/
• Drawing Lines, Pixel, Rects
• Bézier curves, Arcs
• Gradients
• scaling, positioning, rotating,
cropping of images
• render text
• moving, rotating, scaling of objects
and object groups
Ok, but Games?
Request Animation
Frame!
function step() {
// Do serious painting stuff!
window.requestAnimationFrame(step);
}
window.requestAnimationFrame(step);
• Tell browser you want to call a method
(for animation)
• usually being called every 16,67ms
(60FPS)
Simple animation
LIVE DEMOS!
HTML5 Games for Web & Mobile
Hardware
accelerated
• most Browsers have hardware
acceleration turned on by default
3D with WebGL
HTML5 Games for Web & Mobile
Writing an own Engine?
HTML5 Games for Web & Mobile
HTML5 Games for Web & Mobile
HTML5 Games for Web & Mobile
Phaser
http://phaser.io
WebGL & Canvas, Preloader, Physics,
Sprites, Groups, Animation, Particles,
Camera, Input, Sound, Tilemaps,
Device Scaling, Plugin System
Phaser
LIVE DEMOS!
Canvas on Desktop seems to be
ready for Games!
And mobile?
HTML5 Canvas on
mobile…
https://www.flickr.com/photos/elycefeliz/5000964458/
Why?
• Memory limits
• App Stores… :(
• …
–Carsten Sandtner
„HTML5 Games für Web and Mobile"
But there is hope!
HTML5 Games for Web & Mobile
http://impactjs.com/ejecta
https://crosswalk-project.org/
Intel® XDK
https://software.intel.com/de-de/intel-xdk
http://cocoon.io/
HTML5 Games for Web & Mobile
HTML5 Games for Web & Mobile
Example
Summary (so far)…
Summary
• Desktop Games ✓
• Mobile Games ✓
• „native“ ✓
• Cross Platform?
• Monetization?
Challenges
Screen Sizes
320x480
Phone
640x960
Phone
768x1024
Tablet
800x1280
Tablet
800x1280
Desktop
Android
Deal with resolutions
• dedicated assets
• logo_320.png vs. logo_640png
• Scaling
• Problem: aspect ratio.
• Problem: up scaling.
• Combination of both!
Example: Landscape vs. Portrait
Scaling assets
down
up
Assets: Kenney! http://www.kenney.nl
There is more than screen sizes!
HTML5 Games for Web & Mobile
Performance
https://www.flickr.com/photos/chatterstone/16321128021/
Monetization
• App Stores!
• IAP
• Cordova and CocoonJS have
plugins for: Google Play, iTunes, …
• Advertisement
• CocoonJS has Plugins
• Add your own implementation
Some Examples!
HTML5 Games for Web & Mobile
HTML5 Games for Web & Mobile
HTML5 Games for Web & Mobile
HTML5 Games for Web & Mobile
Links, engines etc.
http://phaser.io
http://gamemechanicexplorer.com/
http://www.html5gamedevs.com/
http://html5gameengine.com/
http://opengameart.org/
http://orteil.dashnet.org/gamegen
http://gamedevjsweekly.com/
http://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/contents.html
http://cocoon.io/
Twitter: @casarock
http://casarock.github.io

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