Games
Travians: Sims meets Cultures, with Ajax
Steve Mattison let us know about a new AJAX game has been released by the makers of that old popular PHP-based village building game Travian. This one is more like Sims meets Cultures, and it is call ....... read more
Fri,
12 Dec 2008
Digg Attack: A Canvas Game
Fun news for a Friday. From Jacob Seidelinthe dude behind JavaScript Super Mario Brotherscomes Digg Attack, an original JavaScript game using <g;canvas> for visuals (and Flash for music).
As an ....... read more
Fri,
21 Nov 2008
GameJS: Canvas Game Library
Tommy Maintz has created a fun project called GameJS a 2d game development framework using JavaScript and Canvas.
The API
GameJS.framework.Game - This is the main game class you extend when creatin ....... read more
Tue,
28 Oct 2008
Life: The game in Canvas
Kyle McGregor took a look at the JavaScript Games for Life out there and decided to write a Canvas version that ends up being a lot snappier. The entire game is pretty small:
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Fri,
03 Oct 2008
Invaders from Mars: Building a JavaScript Game
As a follow-up to our recent posting of a JavaScript Pac-Man clone, we bring you a JavaScript Space Invaders clone: Invaders from Mars. Only this time, in addition to a link to the game itself, weve ....... read more
Tue,
23 Sep 2008
Pacman bites back
I got to play an old school, sit down, Pacman at Google Developer Day, London, so it only seems appropriate to keep playing it thanks to Harry Guillermo and his new Pacman port to JavaScript.
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Fri,
19 Sep 2008
gameQuery:
Selim Arsever wants to make it easier to great JavaScript Games, so he created gameQuery, based on jQuery.
gameQuery allows you to declare animations, which are made of one image with a succession of ....... read more
Fri,
05 Sep 2008
Bomberman in MooTools
Munteanu Gabriel has created todays Friday JavaScript game. It is an old favourite&. Bomberman.
Munteanu has released the code as an open source project, and you can get going to bomb away now
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Fri,
22 Aug 2008
Tombs of Asciiroth: GWT, Gears, and AIR enabled RPG Game
Alx Dark has created The Tombs of Asciiroth a fully functional roguelike-meets-puzzle-arcade game.
Asciiroth is a a complete, functional, open source game, written using GWT, and distributed either ....... read more
Fri,
08 Aug 2008
Defender of the Favicon
Mathieu Henri saw Scott Schillers generated favicons VU meter and wanted to push the concept of generated favicons further and pack a thrilling retro shooter in 16×16 pixels using JavaScript, canva ....... read more
Thu,
17 Jul 2008
Spacius - Nintendo meets JavaScript - again!
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Tue,
08 Jul 2008
Canvas Quest: Rogue like RPG game
Andrew Wooldridge created CanvasQuest with the idea of creating a simple roguelike game. It has some interesting features like map loading, and uses graphics to render the text via sprites.
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Fri,
06 Jun 2008
BeSlimed: Mootools Gaming
Markus Inger wanted to hone his Mootools skills, so he created a BeJewelled-like game, BeSlimed. Give it a Friday whirl!
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Fri,
30 May 2008
JavaScript Super Mario Kart
Jacob Seidelin keeps on going, and has created a Super Mario Kart prototype:
It uses the canvas element to do most of the rendering and should work in both FF2, FF3, Opera(9.27 and beta) and Safari ....... read more
Fri,
23 May 2008
Live Chess with Comet
Piotr Dachtera took his 64pola.pl, and created a scalable version using Comet. Dylan reports it as a Jetty-powered Comet app that uses dojox.cometd on the client-side. It?s a solid implementation th ....... read more
Mon,
12 May 2008
Cubescape: Isometric Pixel Fun
Ever wanted to create your own isometric pixel picture, but didnt know what the word isometric meant? Well, now you can fulfil your wildest dreams with Cubescape!
That is the headline for Cubesca ....... read more
Fri,
16 May 2008
Wii Darts: Powering Ajax applications with Wii controllers
Ben and I gave a presentation at JavaOne on whats new with Ajax. Since this was JavaOne, we skewed a little more than we normally would to Java topics, and one of them was using the new Java Plugin, ....... read more
Wed,
07 May 2008
XSketch: Pictionary with GWT
XSketch is "a multiplayer word sketch game. It is programmed in Adobe Flash, Java, Ajax, and GWT. Gameplay is similar to Pictionary where you sketch a picture with the goal of having other players gu ....... read more
Fri,
02 May 2008
Java in JavaScript
As John Resig reports, the Japanese Shibuja.JS user group managed to port (at least in parts) the Java Virtual Machine over to JavaScript. The project is called Orto and there is a Japanese PDF explai ....... read more
Mon,
28 Apr 2008
ProtoRPG: Role Playing with Prototype
Sometimes you want Monday to be a Friday, so we have ProtoRPG, a role playing game written by Pierre Chassaing in JavaScript using Prototype and Script.aculo.us. Walk around, add to your inventory, an ....... read more
Mon,
21 Apr 2008