HTML5 ゲーム開発入門 (要約)
長所
- HTML5 で作られたゲームはスマートフォン、タブレット、PC、スマート TV で動く。
- 他のメディアと同様に、ウェブ全体でゲームを広告、宣伝できる。
- 支払い。好きな支払い処理サービスを使って課金できる。
- 好きな時にゲームを更新できる。
- 自身のアナリティクスを集められる!
- 顧客ともっと近く繋がれる。
- プレイヤーはいつでもどこでもゲームをプレイできる。
ウェブ技術
| 機能 | 技術 |
|---|---|
| Audio | Web Audio API (en-US) |
| Graphics | WebGL (OpenGL ES 2.0) |
| Input | Touch events, Gamepad API (en-US), 端末センサー, WebRTC (en-US), Full Screen API (en-US), Pointer Lock API (en-US) |
| Language | JavaScript (Emscripten を使って C/C++ を JavaScript にコンパイルする) |
| Networking | WebRTC (en-US) や WebSockets |
| Storage | IndexedDB や "cloud" |
| Web | HTML, CSS, SVG, Social API (とその他いろいろ!) |
- Full Screen API (en-US)
- Full screen gameplay.
- Gamepad API (en-US)
- Use gamepads or other game controllers.
- HTML and CSS
- Build, style, and lay out your game's user interface.
- HTML audio
- Easily play simple sound effects and music.
- IndexedDB
- Store user data on their own computer or device.
- JavaScript
- Fast web プログラミング言語 to write the code for your game.
To easily port your existing games Emscripten or Asm.js - Pointer Lock API (en-US)
- Lock the mouse or other pointing device within your game's interface.
- SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics)
- Build vector graphics that scale smoothly regardless of the size or resolution of the user's display.
- Typed Arrays
- Access raw binary data from within JavaScript; Manipulate GL textures, game data, or anything else.
- Web Audio API (en-US)
- Control the playback, synthesis, and manipulation of audio in real time.
- WebGL
- Create high-performance, hardware-accelerated 3D (and 2D) graphics. OpenGL ES 2.0.
- WebRTC (en-US)
- 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
- 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
- Spawn background threads running their own JavaScript code for multi-core processors.
- XMLHttpRequest and File API
- 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.