It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan. — Eleanor Roosevelt
This is an experiment to see how far into an interactive experience I can get using only CSS. What better project to attempt than a game? Battleship seemed like a good challenge and a step up from the CSS games I’ve seen so far because it has the complexity of multiple areas that have to interact with two players.
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Oh, you wanna learn how it works? Let’s dig in.… Read article
Among the many JavaScript APIs added in HTML5 was Drag and Drop (we’ll refer to it as DnD in this article) which brought native DnD support to the browser, making it easier for developers to implement this interactive feature into applications. The amazing thing that happens when features become easier to implement is that people start making all kinds of silly, impractical things with it, like the one we’re making today: a parking game!
DnD requires only a few things … Read article
Nicky Case's games are a damn treasure in this world. Most importantly, they are fun and compelling to play. They also make gameplay the vehicle for education on tricky, intricate, and important issues. Issues that would be much harder to learn about by just reading. They are also a masterclass in design: clear calls to action, clear onboarding, meaningful interactions and animations, and good copy.
Everybody loves the vintage game Pong, right? We sure do. What's more fun? Building it yourself!
That's why we decided to create one with SVG.js - to highlight some aspects of our library. It might seem like a complex idea for a small tutorial, but as you'll see, it's simpler than it sounds. Let's dive into it!… Read article
The year was 1995; Toy Story hit the theaters, kids were obsessively collecting little cardboard circles and Kiss From a Rose was being badly sung by everyone. I was a gangly ten-year-old, and like any other relatively tall kid I was often addressed to by "you must be so good at basketball!". So I practiced and practiced spending hours on the court of my elementary school. Eventually, I realized, much to the dismay of aunts and other cheek-pinchers alike, that … Read article
During San Francisco’s Stupid Shit No One Needs and Terrible Ideas “Hackathon”, Glen Chiaccheri made a game where you have to literally scream your way through it.
Make sure to check it out in Firefox, as Chrome and Safari don’t support the getUserMedia API fully. This is the API that allows web developers to request access to the user’s microphone, which you can find more info about on HTML5Rocks.… Read article