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by daredevildave 13y ago
I loved this screensaver. A couple of years ago it was rebuilt in WebGL too: http://apps.playcanvas.com/will/arthacksf/toasters
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by daredevildave 13y ago
If you just want to make a game, you may not want to bother learning WebGL directly. You can use an engine like PlayCanvas[1]* to build a game and you don't have to worry about the low-level stuff. [1] https://playcanvas.com
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by daredevildave 13y ago
You can get a free account on http://playcanvas.com/ . It's got a lot of similarities to Unity but runs in the browser. [I'm one of the founders]
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by daredevildave 13y ago
You might want to take a look at our company PlayCanvas[1] We've got the game-building stuff covered, with Javascript engine and designer tools. And a few of our users are pushing the multiplayer part of it e.g. http://apps.
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by daredevildave 13y ago
Full-stack Developer - London, UK PlayCanvas [ http://playcanvas.com ] - Cloud-hosted game development platform You could be Employee #3 at PlayCanvas. We've built the world's first cloud-hosted 3D game development platf
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by daredevildave 13y ago
Full Stack Developer - London, UK PlayCanvas [ http://playcanvas.com ] has built the world's first cloud-hosted 3D game development platform. We're building real-time collaborative tools and a community hub for game deve
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by daredevildave 13y ago
If you like Javascript and you'd like to start experimenting with 3D games, you should take a look at PlayCanvas[1]. WebGL-based online game tools. I think it's a little more complicated than Construct2 but you get to play with 3D
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by daredevildave 13y ago
Ludum Dare has been so much fun over the years. We've been doing it for 2 years now, and have had mixed success :-) http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2013/12/13/playcanvas-is-in/ But we've cr
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by daredevildave 13y ago
There's an video interview with one of the developers here: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-12-08-hello-games-deb...
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by daredevildave 13y ago
You might want to take a look at our product, PlayCanvas. We've tried to do all the maths for you, so you don't have to. :-)
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by daredevildave 13y ago
Model with Clara.io, animate with mixamo.com and develop your game with PlayCanvas.com. The future of game development is online!
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by daredevildave 13y ago
I don't think WebGL will have any affect here. The requirements for runtime asset format vs. interchange formats are completely different. Generally runtime formats are designed to optimize out all the cruft that interchange formats li
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by daredevildave 13y ago
Being a US company, I'm guessing there is no chip and PIN support?
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by daredevildave 13y ago
PlayCanvas [disclaimer: I'm CTO] has a full 3D import pipeline from FBX, COLLADA and OBJ which supports skinned animation and all default materials. Plus we have a level designer, physics engine, scripting API, hosted publishing, and a
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by daredevildave 13y ago
What? Sorry, that's just not true. MS-DOS games in 1992: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6E4FZdY-pM JavaScript games/tech in 2013: http://playcanvas.com/demos/ http://services.runescape.com/m=itemdb_rs/bestiary/?show=50
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by daredevildave 13y ago
I wonder if this was done in, say Poland, would it be titled "European Bus Routes Redrawn Using Cell-Phone Data"? Why is it no-one narrows down descriptions of Africa to below continent-level?
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by daredevildave 13y ago
The solo competition is actually 48 hours. The Jam (teams) competition is 72 hours. This was a 48 hour entry.
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by daredevildave 13y ago
Here are some examples of ammo.js running in PlayCanvas[1] Vehicle: http://apps.playcanvas.com/will/ammo/vehicle FPS Character Controller: http://apps.playcanvas.com/playcanvas/physics/charactercontr... Crates!: http://apps.playcanvas.
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by daredevildave 14y ago
This is exactly what I said to Ben when we implemented Persona at PlayCanvas. Social logins might be OK if you are making a photo-sharing app or a social newsreader, but if your business relies on _companies_ signing up, my suspicion is peo
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Pixi.js is out(goodboydigital.com)
79 points by daredevildave 14y ago|11 comments
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by daredevildave 14y ago
I'm a little surprised by this line, in reference to Chrome on iOS: "Also, for what it’s worth, JavaScript is so rarely the bottleneck on mobile that the lack of JITting compiler has minimal impact." But then I'm making HT
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by daredevildave 14y ago
Performance: How fast is fast enough? We may not be able to make Battlefield 3 run in a browser yet, but there is a whole host of games that are possible, and are still a step-change in graphics compared to the 2D flash games. We've got dem
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by daredevildave 14y ago
Please do get in touch. We love how easy it is to get a sample/demo/game published using PlayCanvas, we use it _all_ the time. We offer the option to download your game export and host it yourself but it's one button to publish to PlayCanva
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by daredevildave 14y ago
Hopefully WebRTC data channels will enable UDP-like comms from the browser.
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by daredevildave 14y ago
This is exactly the reason we started PlayCanvas [ http://playcanvas.com ]. I don't think it will be long before there is a modern browser in every TV, phone and tablet, in addition to every desktop machine.
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by daredevildave 14y ago
Here is the CPU: https://twitter.com/daredevildave/status/289029688943321089/... Turns out a m1.small is much better than an t1.micro :-)
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by daredevildave 14y ago
Now running on a larger instance. Cloud win! (for the moment...)
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by daredevildave 14y ago
Would it kill them to put a f-ing link to Xi3 in that article?
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Games industry predictions for 2013(venturebeat.com)
12 points by daredevildave 14y ago|12 comments
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by daredevildave 14y ago
I think it is easy to under-estimate how much difference it makes when your game is on a URL and is running with now download and install.

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