All about HTML5

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   This is a great blog post, talking about whats HTML5, its technologies and all you need to know about it. It even mentions Construct 2 :D
http://www.photonstorm.com/archives/2759/the-reality-of-html5-game-development-and-making-money-from-it

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7Soul 6,516 Rep 5 7 43	Post Options Post Reply Quote 7Soul Report Post Quote Reply Topic: All about HTML5 Posted: 25 Jan 2012 at 7:26pm
	This is a great blog post, talking about whats HTML5, its technologies and all you need to know about it. It even mentions Construct 2 :D http://www.photonstorm.com/archives/2759/the-reality-of-html5-game-development-and-making-money-from-it

Velojet 13,243 Rep 7 10 76	Post Options Post Reply Quote Velojet Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 25 Jan 2012 at 7:53pm
	Thanks for sharing that link, 7Soul - it's a very useful overview of the HTML5 development scene as it currently stands (or rather, accelerates). Good that he mentions the developing Gamepad API - that will be a real step up. His survey of the (depressingly large and varied) range of target platforms is particularly good. I'm not sure, though, that I'd go along with his conclusion that "if you are only worried about the Desktop market ... you should probably question the use of HTML5 in the first place and still consider Flash". In the first place, I think that no game developer now should be "only worried about the Desktop market", and secondly, I think that even there, the HTML5/Flash balance is changing so rapidly that a Flash-only developer risks getting left behind in the dust. Edited by Velojet - 25 Jan 2012 at 7:56pm

Kyatric Moderator 28,490 Rep 17 32 95	Post Options Post Reply Quote Kyatric Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 25 Jan 2012 at 8:37pm
	Good find, thanks @7Soul. Also agreed with @velojet. I don't have the same point of view as the author about the desktop gaming, as as far as I've tested it, games made with C2 execute well on my CPU and feel stable (more than handcoded ones I've tried so far indeed). Edited by Kyatric - 25 Jan 2012 at 8:40pm
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BadFish 671 Rep 1 5	Post Options Post Reply Quote BadFish Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 25 Jan 2012 at 9:52pm
	In the above article I read that: "Native Client (NaCl for short) is a Chrome specific technology that allows developers to code in C/C++ and produce a .nexe file, a compiled native module. ... Being able to port C/C++ code makes it an interesting option for game developers working in that area already." I'm not a developer and don't understand how all this works, but are there any plans to make C2 available in the chrome store? Is this even possible? Selfishly, I can think of a lot of reasons to do it (ie. I could purchase and use C2 on my Mac) but maybe I'm missing something.