HTML5 Asteroids

Doug McInnes recreated the classic arcade game Asteroids using canvas:

The Canvas element is super cool. Basically all of the sprites in the game are simple paths defined by an array of points. These points are translated, rotated and scaled based on their state at any given point in the game using the standard Canvas transformations.

(Submitted by Richard Bradshaw)

5/22/2010   #canvas #game
Quake 2 ported to the web. No live demo due to licensing issue.

Quake 2 ported to the web. No live demo due to licensing issue.

5/19/2010   #canvas #game #demo #audio
Akihabara is an indie dev kit for development of retro-style games in Javascript. Several impressive example games are included.

Akihabara is an indie dev kit for development of retro-style games in Javascript. Several impressive example games are included.

5/19/2010   #game #canvas #javascript