What technologies to look at for browser games?

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5 comments, last by jbb 13 years, 10 months ago
Hi,

when I want to make a game like Farmville what technologies should I look into? Besides Flash, I want to stay as much as possible on any standards...


Thanks,
Enrico
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Unity would be a good tool worth checking out, it allows for C#, &#106avascript, and Boo scripting. If you go to their forums there are lots of examples of free web games that have been developed using the software.
Quote:Original post by Kalnos
Unity would be a good tool worth checking out, it allows for C#, &#106avascript, and Boo scripting. If you go to their forums there are lots of examples of free web games that have been developed using the software.<!--QUOTE--></td></tr></table></BLOCKQUOTE><!--/QUOTE--><!--ENDQUOTE--><br>Ah, no plugins. I think those games are made without Unity or Panda3D or similar plugins. Maybe &#106avascript + x?
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Quote:Original post by Enrico
Ah, no plugins. I think those games are made without Unity or Panda3D or similar plugins. Maybe &#106avascript + x?<!--QUOTE--></td></tr></table></BLOCKQUOTE><!--/QUOTE--><!--ENDQUOTE--><br><br>With no plugins your best bet is most likely HTML 5.<br>I assume since you don't want flash you're specifically wanting to make sure you can support iPhone? Last I checked (which isn't very frequently, I must admit) the iPhone browser does have support for HTML 5.<br><br>As for Facebook, take a look at the <a href="http://developers.facebook.com/">Facebook API</a>. The rest of the web seems to be pretty much all plugin based (Flash, Java, Unity etc.)
Yeah if you don't want to use anything that requires an additional install, HTML5 Canvas and JS is your only option. I suggest having a look here: http://chromeexperiments.com there's a couple examples of games there.
Quote:Original post by agm_ultimatex
Yeah if you don't want to use anything that requires an additional install, HTML5 Canvas and JS is your only option. I suggest having a look here: http://chromeexperiments.com there's a couple examples of games there.

Interesting, thanks! :)

Do you know any resources related to browser game development specifically? I tried to find any books, but there are only books for Silverlight, Flash, etc.

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You could consider the google web toolkit which basically lets you write your code in something very much like java and then compile it down to &#106avascript code.

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