Building Games for HTML5, Not with HTML5

I completely agree with this. Building HTML5 games - and you can get competitive levels of graphics and so on - is a great way to be able to target the Apple, Android and even the Chrome store. You can easily make a shim that launches a WebView window.<p>It also allows for playing online as said.<p>WebWorkers, however annoying to debug, raise an interesting speed-bump to cheating too. Here&#x27;s a WebWorker wrapper script that lets you run (a single) WebWorker in-process instead, for debuggability: <a href="https://github.com/williame/ludum_dare_27_snowden/blob/gh-pages/web_worker.js" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;williame&#x2F;ludum_dare_27_snowden&#x2F;blob&#x2F;gh-pa...</a><p>With the new Audio API and webRTC, plus the WebSockets, things are bright.

&quot;Why write an iOS version of a game in Objective C, and the PC version in C? Performance would be the only reason, but that’s becoming more and more of a moot point.&quot;<p>Why indeed, when there is a multi-paradigm C# and MonoGame that give you a combination of an actual modern language, decent performance and multi-platform access.

&quot;Your game doesn’t need to be in the iOS App Store or Google Play to be played on mobile devices. That is a huge benefit. Sure, it’s good to have it in both of those stores (and is easy enough to achieve), but the fact that it can be played without requiring an install and the extra bulk of the stores is a big opportunity.&quot;<p>I don&#x27;t know if this is true though. Consumers expect the games to be in the appstores. I don&#x27;t know anyone who even knows they can play games on the phone browser.

Where&#x27;s the pricing information. I hate it when a site hides it&#x27;s pricing. My immediate reaction is that it&#x27;s too high. Then contact with the company to find out is going to be fraught with listening to justification before I can get prices and immediately rule them out as too high a percentage of expected revenue.

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good article. haven&#x27;t seen it mentioned before, so props to the author for noticing that html5 is a distinct platform.