joe bain

Snake in 31 lines of JS

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A great new album from Fitzroy North labelmate Fade Runner. Check out the last track, Ploup.

I've been working on Rotherhithe again today and made some good progress with yet another game mode. This one might stick though I think. You have to pick up these balls from the arena and you can then launch them at the other players. Not shown in the video is the ability to volley back the balls, if you time it right. If you get hit though you lose territory, and this flood fills like in the old version of the game.

My current plan is to include 2 modes in the final game, with one available for free and the other unlockable. Of course there's still a lot of polish to do, and I don't really have a compelling second mode yet, although I think something will come out of the triangle stuff from the last video. I also really want to put in online multiplayer, but I know it will be hard to implement, so I'm saving that for future Joe.

I gave a talk yesterday at the IGDA London meet about HTML5 games and the various technologies that sit under that banner. I haven't done a lot of public speaking before but I think it went quite well. The talk includes some code examples and videos of recent boundary-pushing HTML5 games.

Browse the slides and code examples.

Or take a look at some of my own HTML5 games.

Spied these today on /r/design

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