HTML5 Multiplayer Game Development

Google Tech Talk (more info below)
July 15, 2011

Presented by Rob Hawkes.

ABSTRACT

In this talk Rob will take you on a journey through the development of Rawkets, his HTML5 and JavaScript multiplayer space shooter. He will place particular focus on the issues that plagued the early progress, as well as the subsequent solutions that helped make it the ever-so-slightly addictive game that it is today. Expect theory, examples, and plenty of code in this light-hearted look at game development with the latest Web technologies.

Rob Hawkes (@robhawkes) thrives on solving problems through code. He's addicted to visual programming, and can't get enough of HTML5 canvas. Most of his waking life is spent working on crazy projects involving all sorts of new and exciting technologies, both on-line and off. Aside from his practical work, Rob is the author of Foundation HTML5 Canvas, which is all about making games with the new Web technology. He works for Mozilla as a Technical Evangelist, which puts him in the fortunate position of being able to work on his hobbies full time and still feed himself. Learn more at http://rawkes.com/

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[AntiProtonBoy]

Google Tech Talks is awesome, but consistently fails with audio quality. Please improve audio quality.

[redsunpro]

Being a game developer I was hoping to hear more about how HTML5 was used here but it looked more like a (possibly newbie's?) postmortem of his first game. Which was great to listen to but the title is kinda misleading. Thanks for the post though!

[LoveIsLogical]

It's its own server-side language that has syntax based off of js.

[Stephen Davies]

This was a debrief of this guys game, not really anything educational in structure. Node.js is Javascript, why does he refer to it as a "language"?

[Nicholas Winters]

Cool

[Jason Shin]

Which book did you read in order to craete the game ? Please give me some book or tutorial recommendations =D Thank you! P.S. I enjoyed the video

[trollosaurs]

GOOGLE WHY U NO GOOD AT AUDIO?

[Danny Bullis]

The term "HTML5" is used by web developers in a way that it *includes* new advances in JavaScript and CSS3. That this video focuses mostly on using the advances in JavaScript such as WebSockets IS technically on track with the "HTML5" topic...I mean...come on, HTML itself isn't that exciting, but the world of potential opened by the HTML5 Canvas is. So if you're tempted to complain that this video doesn't talk about "HTML5"...you need to understand the bigger, abstract concept that HTML5 is.

[pianoparadise]

There was very helpful in making my multiplayer game bandwithfriends