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Fantastic Intro to HTML5 Game Development

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On 27/01/2012

In Business, Design, Video Games

HTML5Anyone who has been following HTML5 to any degree has probably gotten lost or confused at some point about what’s going on. I know I have and I know I will get confused again in the future. For now (end of Jan 2012) this wonderful blog post on HTML5 game development is great!

The post covers nearly everything one needs to know from the technology to some problems with HTML5 to how the heck one can monetize games made using the tech.

Here’s a snippet from the mobile web browser section:

Not to be mistaken with mobile apps, which you download and install onto your phone, the Mobile Web Browser is an increasingly important platform to target. Mobile browsing is catching up to Desktop fast with some predictions putting the overlap period to be as early as 2014. Take that figure with a pinch of salt of course, but no-one denies the rapid growth here. This is in part supported by the recent advances in mobile technology. It assumes the player is online and browses to your game via the browser installed on their phone or tablet. There is a rapidly growing market in mobile web games, with a number of high profile games portals already on board buying them and many more will follow. In terms of development you need to approach it from either the DOM or Canvas angle. Most smart phones contain dedicated GPUs and Mobile Safari will now use it to render DOM elements and under iOS5 Canvas as well. WebGL is also on its way. Enabled in Firefox on Android and a hidden option in Mobile Safari expect to see more of this soon.

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Nimblebit versus Zynga

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On 25/01/2012

In Business, Design

Nimblebit has released an image (left) that points out the similarities between their game TinyTower and Zynga’s game called Dream Heights.dear zynga

This image has been making the rounds, for commentary on it feel free to check out the conversation on Reddit. Copying style and games mechanics is not a new thing in the gaming industry.

I find it interesting how mad people are at this. If it wasn’t Zynga (which many gamers love to hate) I wonder if this would have got the reaction on the net that it did.

Here’s a choice quote from Pocket Gamer on Zynga copying Tiny Tower:

Other mobile and social developers have also thrown their hats into the ring.

Among them was Daniel Cook, CCO of Spryfox, who described those who copy and sell the works of others as “horrible human beings.”

“It doesn’t matter if it is your job. Or if you need the money. Or if some boss told you to do it,” Cook said.

“You pushed the pixels that hurt someone.”

TAUW shares with us that Zynga may have tried to buy Nimblebit in the past:

I have asked NimbleBit about getting acquired before. The brothers seem like prime candidates for a larger company to come along and buy them out, and indeed Ian Marsh says during this whole affair that Zynga has offered to purchase NimbleBit and its games before. But as they told me, these guys aren’t in it for the money. Certainly their games are very lucrative, but the Marsh brothers have said that they just like making great games on their own and will continue to do that for as long as they can.

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