I have been very busy recently and I am now starting to catch up with the blog and everything. On that note: I’ve released an Update to my ebook to make it compatible with the latest version of EaselJS 0.7.1 – the update is free for anyone who purchased the book, and for everyone else: the price is still the same 
But the reason for this post is that I want to write about another indie game that friends of mine are currently developing called ‘Commander Cherry’s Puzzled Journey’.
HTML5 Gaming for desktop and mobile is a very trendy topic these days. The performance of canvas applications is getting better and better each day and technologies like CocoonJS or Ejecta even enable a close to native performance for canvas applications on mobile devices. – But what about audio? Is it really that easy to implement sound with your html app?
This article features some interesting points that I collected while researching for my eBook ‘From Zero to the Appstore’.
While most browsers and devices already do support audio in general, that doesn’t mean you can just play any audio file in any modern browser. The following table briefly lists the support for Audio-codecs.
I just finished the first version of a pixel perfect collision detection for EaselJS Bitmaps and BitmapAnimations.
Get it from Github: https://github.com/olsn/Collision-Detection-for-EaselJS
Here is an example (play around with the alpha threshold and toggle the detection mode):
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// Rect Collision var intersection = ndgmr.checkRectCollision(bitmap1,bitmap2); // intersection is null if no collision, otherwise a {x,y,width,height}-Object is returned // Pixel Perfect Collision var collision = ndgmr.checkPixelCollision(bitmap1,bitmap2,alphaThreshold); // true or false // alphaThreshold default is 0, set to higher value to ignore collisions with semi transparent pixels |
I know this is a very vague thesis that I’m drawing up here, and I can only speak from my own point of view and from those of a couple people I talked to about it. My statement is, that video-series like this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vi0WSKZzyls are potentially harming the video game indutry.
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