This page is meant to be updated as I or students find helpful resources
7/8/2013 - Organized links
Example HTML5 Games
Elliot Quest - Zelda II genre, written using Impact.js
Asylum Night - an interesting Tower Defense game made for an Indie GameJam
Squids - A game by student from my Server-based Game Development class
I'll fill this out your games if you host them online!
Development links
3rd party APIs
- JQuery documentation - http://api.jquery.com/
- Underscore documentation - http://modernizr.com/docs/
- Modernizr documentation - http://underscorejs.org/#
- Box2D documentation - http://www.box2dflash.org/docs/2.1a/reference/ (flash version, but it works for JS)
Recommended Reading
Dan Cook's excellent blog - Managing game design risk: Part II - Data Driven Development
Gamasutra article - GDC: God of War: How the Left and Right Brain Learned to Love One Another
Alternative OOP models in JavaScript - Details on prototypical inheritence
DigiPen students' presentations on Game Engine Architecture topics - http://www.youtube.com/user/gameenginearchitects
Great resource for game development tutorials - http://gamedev.tutsplus.com/
Handy Downloads
http://code.google.com/p/mongoose/ - Mongroose let's you run a localhost Web Server.
http://www.sublimetext.com/ - SublimeText, my favorite text editor that is quickly taking over the world.
- https://tutsplus.com/lesson/sublime-linter/ - Lint module for SublimeText
HTML5 Development resources
http://html5please.com/ - Look up HTML5, CSS3, etc features to know what requires a polyfill, browser consideration, etc.
https://www.udacity.com/course/cs255 - Udacity HTML5 Game Development course
http://html5test.com/ - Test how your browser scores in supporting HTML5 features
http://areweplayingyet.org/ - A pragmatic HTML5 Audio test suite
General Game Development resources
http://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/18e38t/pocketknives_for_game_developers/ - Reddit post on various tools/resources for game developers
http://www.reddit.com/r/gameassets/ - Free game assets on reddit
http://lunar.lostgarden.com/labels/free%20game%20graphics.html - Free Game Graphics on Danc's Lost Garden