Archive for the ‘javascript’ Category

HTML5 Game Programming Gems – requestAnimationFrame

Whether talking about character movement or bouncing balls, sprite animation is a fundamental aspect of game development. There are a million ways to skin the cat with this but it all boils down to iterating through animation frames from within a loop. A simple javascript method for initiating an animation loop is to call setInterval [...]

How to Create an iPhone App Showcase Screenshot

From http://www.tabletbucks.com/create-an-iphone-app-screenshot-to-showcase-your-app/

Creating a PlayBook App from Old Content – Awesome RPS

Spurred by a comment left on a previous blog post about ridiculously simple Javascript Rock Paper Scissors game, I thought I’d see how quickly I could turn the web version of the game into a self-contained app for the BlackBerry PlayBook. And it took virtually no time at all.  The most difficult part was creating [...]

Javascript Rock Paper Scissors

I was going through some old code of mine and, among other things, came across this Javascript Rock Paper Scissors game I made several years ago. Too much fun!

Online QR Code Generator

I’m sure you’re aware of what a QR code is. You see them everywhere these days. And if you don’t know, well it’s one of those square boxes just like above. QR is short for Quick Response. A QR code is a graphical representation of a bunch of data and is being used extensively for [...]

Random Flickr Image Slider Puzzle Using Canvas Tags

Your browser does not support iframes. I put this together a couple of months ago, with the intention to do something else with it, but I haven’t. So I’m just going to publish in this here blog. It’s a slider puzzle game thingy done with a bunch of HTML5 canvas tags and some seriously hard [...]