On Our Radar This Week: Game Development, E-Commerce and Docker
Welcome to On Our Radar, a weekly round-up of news, trends and other cool stuff from the world of web development. Security is back in the news this week with the shocking revelation that Russian...
View ArticleJavaScript Game Programming Using Phaser
Phaser is a HTML5 game framework for desktop and mobile. It's fast, free, and open source. Phaser is currently in version 2.0.7. It supports both WebGL and Canvas. It has a bunch of features to help...
View ArticlePractical CoffeeScript: Making a Tic-Tac-Toe Game
CoffeeScript is a tiny little language that compiles to JavaScript. There is no interpretation at runtime since you write CoffeeScript, compile it to JavaScript and use the resulting JavaScript files...
View ArticleIntroduction to Stage.js
Stage.js is a lightweight and open-source JavaScript library that you can use for cross-platform 2D HTML5 game development. This library uses DOM-like model to manipulate the canvas and manages the...
View ArticleBuilding a Dodger Game Clone in Unity
In this tutorial, we’ll be building a simple Dodger game in Unity. To see and play the final result, go here. Analyzing the Game Dodger is a small, simplistic game that doesn’t take much logic to...
View ArticleSaving Data Between Scenes in Unity
This tutorial assumes basic knowledge of Unity Engine. If you don’t have your own project set up, you can freely grab the project example linked here. You will also find a download of the completed...
View ArticleSaving and Loading Player Game Data in Unity
In this tutorial, we’ll learn to implement Save/Load game functionality in our game. We will begin by saving the necessary player-related data such as the level we’re on, where we are, and our example...
View ArticleMastering Save and Load Functionality in Unity 5
Thanks to Vincent Quarles for kindly helping to peer review this article. In this tutorial, we’ll finish the implementation of Save and Load functionality in our game. In the previous tutorial on...
View ArticleQuick Tip: How to Make a Game Loop in JavaScript
The "game loop" is a name given to a technique used to render animations and games with changing state over time. At its heart is a function that runs as many times as possible, taking user input,...
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