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



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.


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