Introduction to HTML Game Development
Advantages
- Games built with HTML work on smartphones, tablets, PCs and Smart TVs.
- Advertise and promote your game all over the Web as well as other media.
- Payments. Charge what you want and use whatever payment processing service you like.
- Update your game whenever you want.
- Collect your own analytics!
- Connect with your customers more closely,
- Players can play the game anywhere, anytime.
Web Technologies
| Function | Technology |
|---|---|
| Audio | Web Audio API |
| Graphics | WebGL (OpenGL ES 2.0) |
| Input | Touch events, Gamepad API, device sensors, WebRTC, Full Screen API, Pointer Lock API |
| Language | JavaScript (or C/C++ using Emscripten to compile to JavaScript) |
| Networking | WebRTC and/or WebSockets |
| Storage | IndexedDB or the "cloud" |
| Web | HTML, CSS, SVG (and much more!) |
- Fetch API
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Send and receive any kind of data you want from a Web server like downloading new game levels and artwork to transmitting non-real-time game status information back and forth.
- Full Screen API
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Full screen gameplay.
- Gamepad API
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Use gamepads or other game controllers.
- HTML and CSS
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Build, style, and lay out your game's user interface.
- HTML audio
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Easily play simple sound effects and music.
- IndexedDB
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Store user data on their own computer or device.
- JavaScript
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Fast web programming language to write the code for your game. To easily port your existing games Emscripten or Asm.js
- Pointer Lock API
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Lock the mouse or other pointing device within your game's interface.
- SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics)
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Build vector graphics that scale smoothly regardless of the size or resolution of the user's display.
- Typed Arrays
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Access raw binary data from within JavaScript; Manipulate GL textures, game data, or anything else.
- Web Audio API
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Control the playback, synthesis, and manipulation of audio in real time.
- WebGL
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Create high-performance, hardware-accelerated 3D (and 2D) graphics. OpenGL ES 2.0.
- WebRTC
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Real-Time Communications to control audio and video data, including teleconferencing and transmitting other application data back and forth between two users like chat.
- WebSockets
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Connect your app or site to a server to transmit data back and forth in real-time. Perfect for multiplayer gaming action, chat services, and so forth.
- Web Workers
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Spawn background threads running their own JavaScript code for multicore processors.