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HTML5 Game Development
- ffk 14y agoI hope Udacity sets up a portfolio of games created by students of this course. It would help support the efficacy of courses like this, and provide the students with more potential hiring opportunities than a completion certificate alone.
- jiggy2011 14y agoBy the look of it the course will basically walk through the creation of a specific game rather than have students create their own.
- MatiasPenas-_- 14y agoAt Udacity you learn making stuff. Ex: the CS-101 is building a search engine from scratch.
- SeanDav 14y agohmmm. It says I don't have permission to access that course - what gives?
- bcks 14y agoI experienced this too, but it's working for me now. Seems like a aggressive cookie / caching issue. Try clearing your cache, force-refresh, or logging out and then logging back in again.
- nextparadigms 14y agoDo they have a WebGL one, too?
- Impossible 14y agoCS291, interactive rendering (https://www.udacity.com/course/cs291 https://www.udacity.com/course/cs291), is WebGL based. The instructor is Eric Haines, one of the authors of Real-Time Rendering, so I'm guessing the course will be a solid intro to real-time graphics that goes beyond a how to use WebGL tutorial.
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- akshayaurora 14y agoThe course should be interesting, it shall be teaching everything through Three.js.
- jimmaswell 14y agoI've found HTML5/JS games an interesting experience. I'm currently writing an online Pictionary-type game, like Draw My Thing, with HTML5, JS, and PHP. It's been pretty smooth.
- jbigelow76 14y ago"Draw My Thing" huh? Don't hold your breath on the Apple app store reviewers letting it into the app store. :)
- jimmaswell 14y agoThis is for web browsers on a desktop, not iOS. Draw My Thing is just the name of something similar, from OMGPop.
- papsosouid 14y agoI'm amazed to see people still doing browser detection (hint: other browsers actually do have the features you need, you just didn't think to put them in your list), and worse yet still outright blocking you when they mistakenly think your browser won't work. "We haven't tested your browser, continue at your own risk" is fine, "we won't let you look at this because we don't know your browser exists" isn't.
- paradoxquine 14y agoYou will be able to easily continue into the site with an unsupported supported browser once some changes go live in the next day or two. Sorry for the current issues.
- ohwp 14y agoI'm sorry to. You lost me. Every time I see a "your broser is not supported" message I'm getting more angry. As a developer it's your job to make things work! Yes, I'm using Opera and yes Opera only supports the standard. But common I checked it in other browsers and I can't see what's so special about the site that a "modern" browser is needed.
- moccajoghurt 14y agoGame Development without using WebGL seems like a waste of resources.
- james33 14y agoI would have to disagree, we are developing a fairly advanced multiplayer game using the canvas. You can see some of the gameplay at http://youtu.be/2Mskv0kdo84 http://youtu.be/2Mskv0kdo84, we'll be launching into beta in about a month. WebGL is great, but I'd say we are still 1-2 years from being able to use it mainstream.
- inafield 14y agoDon't tell that to the folks at www.scirra.com who make the program Construct2. Or the many companies that use Construct2.
- JDDunn9 14y agoReally wish phone makers would take HTML5 seriously. Right now their JS engines are too slow for practical use. It would be really nice to finally have a build-once, deploy everywhere system
- svachalek 14y agoMe too. On the latest hardware, JS is a lot better than most people give it credit for, but it still has a long way to go. Unfortunately all the major players have incentives NOT to give us a viable, portable platform.
- hayksaakian 14y agoThat's what annoys me the most. Both Apple and Google have a disincentive to improving WebViews. If both were JUST as apt as the platform's respective browsers, html5 apps would be SO much better.
- ddon 14y agoWe will get there! :) With such momentum that JavaScript has now, in couple of years we will be able to use it at native speed!
- IheartApplesDix 14y agoI wish HTML5 would take HTML5 seriously. Is there even a standard yet?
- pjmlp 14y agoHTML5 is a still a joke for AAA game development. The only place I see it ever take off is for indie games or small prototypes to gain a distributor contract.
- ido 14y agoNobody suggests AAA.
- nhoizey 14y ago
- gamblor956 14y agoWon't let me use Internet Explorer...even to simply view lesson plans, attachments, and discussions....even though the browser supports all of the required features. That's a bummer, because this defeats the anywhere/anytime nature of Udacity's system if I can't log in an do a quick lesson during a free lunch hour.
- paradoxquine 14y agoIf you are using IE9 or above then you absolutely can browse the site and interact with classes (except game-dev of course, because IE9 does not support basic html5 technologies that it needs). Feel free to join our irc or post on the support forums if you think there is an issue with IE9 or above.
- keypusher 14y agoLooks great!
- hfern 14y agoDecided to try the first few lessons and got a fun error: > Expected 30 to be greater than 32.25806451612903. They need to clarify the erroneous function call. (I was calling setInterval with 30ms instead of 1000/30)
- markdown 14y agoDid you post on their forums, or decide it would suit you better to broadcast your issue to people who aren't in a position to fix it?
- dgesang 14y agoNo Opera support. Sucks.
- markdown 14y agoSerious question (no seriously!)... Given that you will always have to deal with service providers not supporting your browser, why do you choose to continue using it? Usually there is an idealogical reason for this sort of stance, but Opera isn't FOSS, and that's the only reason I can think of that someone would choose to put up with an inferior software experience. Why not switch to Chrome or Firefox?
- chii 14y agobecause opera is a good browser. especially on mobile. I expect a service to degrade well even if the platform doesn't fully support all features.
- bajsejohannes 14y agoI was a long time Opera user. I loved that browser. Everything is at your fingertips. You may spend half your day in your browser, so having everything one click away is great. And if it's not one click away, you can make it so. And if you don't like they way HN looks and behaves, you can change all of that easily (once you know how to). Heck, I even worked at Opera for five years because I loved it so much. In the end, though, compatibilty issues led me to another browser. I miss much of the functionality, but browser support trumps that. Opera is to browsers what vim is to text editors. Great if you know how to use it properly, but horrible in some very real and recurring situations.
- markdown 14y agoThanks for the great answer :)
- rartichoke 14y agoHow can you possibly compare Opera to vim heh? I put a 70 year old dude on Opera to help prevent him from getting random malware. It took less than a minute to explain to a completely computer illiterate person that he has to click the red icon instead of the blue icon to "launch the internet". Once it's open it's not very different from other browsers other than it having extremely useful features that most browsers end up adapting months or years later!
- loso 14y agoI had fun using it but got a server error when I got to the loading audio portion of the lesson. It said the answer was correct but to try again. Overall I like where they are going with this. I just started on the path of HTML5 game making a few months ago so hopefully this can fill in some holes I may have.
- myth_drannon 14y agoThey have numerous Firefox problems, use Chrome for quizzes.
- gaoshan 14y agoEven Chrome has issues. I've had one answer where it said I failed so I reloaded and it said I now passed. I changed nothing. In another case the tests failed when everything looked correct so I commented out one of the methods and then it said I passed... specifically passing the test that checked for the function that I had commented out! Seems like there is some flakiness with their system.
- krapp 14y agoI've never even been able to get this site or Coursera to work with Firefox. It's extremely aggravating.
- zachrose 14y agoIs there anything out there like this but less technical and more on game mechanics and genres?
- slurgfest 14y agoHow does this help you make a game? It seems to me that it would not be very helpful unless you could already make games. Anyway: Coursera classes often use premises like this to motivate teaching some specific set of technical skills which are the real point.
- zachrose 14y agoIf you can write JavaScript but have no working model for how to make an engaging game.
- vignesh_vs_in 14y agoPrevious discussion http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5134618 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5134618