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My Adobe Max slides: HTML5 Game Development for the Mobile Web

Rich — Tue, 07 May 2013 22:57:11 +0000

While the rest of the world debates the merits of Creative Cloud subscriptions, I gave my presentation on HTML5 game development for mobile browsers. I tried really hard to not “sugar coat” it, because it’s actually really quite difficult process born from a lot of trial and error. But once I had settled into it [...]

Phaser 0.9.5 Released – Camera FX, lots of Tilemap updates and more!

Rich — Thu, 02 May 2013 13:02:24 +0000

And here’s Phaser 0.9.5 A lot has changed in this update. The most fundamental updates include: New FXManager In previous versions, as in Flixel, camera effects like shake, flash and fade were all bundled into the main Camera class. This has now changed. A new project, Special FX was created and all of the effects [...]

Our list of HTML5 Game Sponsors

Rich — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 11:41:00 +0000

It’s no secret that for nearly 2 years we’ve run a private business forum for HTML5 game developers. On it we listed all the portals and sponsors we dealt with and our experiences in doing so. So far we’ve got 32 portals added, all of them known to have bought games in the past. Since [...]

Phaser 0.9 Released – Motion, Collision, GeomSprites and more

Rich — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 19:43:45 +0000

The latest version of Phaser was pushed to github today. This marks the v0.9 release and consisted of a large re-factoring of the code base, as well as lots of enhancements and new features: Everything now lives within the Phaser module, so it no longer creates anything in the global name space. It makes coding [...]

Phaser Logo – Phase One

iLKke — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 14:10:58 +0000

With Phaser just announced we started thinking about a logo that would compliment the name. I made some rough sketches that we both liked and Rich thought it would be a good idea to share with you guys so you can see how this piece of artwork will evolve. Have to say I am curious [...]

Announcing Phaser (Flixel HTML5) and our Adobe Max session

Rich — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 17:01:00 +0000

We’ve two exciting bits of news to share today. First we have just released Phaser. Phaser is a light-weight 2D HTML5 game framework based heavily on Flixel. Indeed it started life called Flixel5 but was renamed to avoid any potential confusion The current feature list is pretty comprehensive: Asset Loading Easy loading for Images, Sprite [...]

TypeScript Signals released – Think outside the Event

Rich — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 13:05:23 +0000

Signals are a light-weight, strongly typed messaging tool and we use them extensively in our game framework. And we’ve just released our TypeScript implementation for others to benefit from. It’s a conversion of js-signals by Miller Medeiros, which is of course in turn a conversion of AS3-Signals by Robert Penner. You can get TypeScript-Signals from [...]

AS3 to TypeScript Conversion Script

Rich — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 14:10:15 +0000

I write a lot of HTML5 games and my preferred language of choice is TypeScript. I love the compile-time errors, code-insight and debugging tools it provides. A large part of my work is porting over ActionScript3 code from Flash games. I found that I was going through the same motions over and over again; simple [...]

Our 3rd NFL game – Guardian Training: Over Throw is now out

Rich — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 00:23:50 +0000

We really enjoy working on the NFL Rush Zone games for CA based agency Brandissimo! So we were very pleased when they asked us to create a third game for them based on the new Rush Zone Season of the Guardians. Guardian Training: Over Throw was built in HTML5 for desktop and mobile browser. You [...]

Helping Multiplication.com support their growing mobile traffic

Rich — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 11:42:10 +0000

multiplication.com is a site dedicated to helping kids learn multiplication. Like many other sites they use Flash games to do this in a fun and engaging way. But as with many other sites they identified a growing volume of traffic from mobile devices, most notably iPads, so looked for a way to offer their games [...]

CBeebies First Time Online – Teaching basic mobile interactions through HTML5 games

Rich — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 11:58:11 +0000

If you’ve got smaller children and watch CBeebies in the UK then you’ve probably seen their First Time Online campaign running. The project is aimed both at educating parents about what CBeebies has to offer online, as well as encouraging and explaining to young children how to interact with it. This week the final of [...]

Assembloids is in stores!

iLKke — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 12:58:54 +0000

Remember Quartet, our flash game from 2010? Remember the Commodore64 port called Assembloids from late last year? After being an unexpected hit in the RGCD C64 Cartridge Challenge it is now available to buy on a C64 cartridge in both regular and deluxe editions from RGCD and also as a cassette tape from Psytronik. I was [...]

HTML5 Game Developers Forum is open

Rich — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 15:49:43 +0000

We’re pleased to announce that our new HTML5 Game Developers Forum is now open. The forum replaces the old ‘news’ focused site we had. The news will instead be posted to the forum allowing for easier contribution from others and discussion on it. We’ve split the forum into what we feel are a logical set [...]

Trashie Rampage – Our January 1GAM entry

Rich — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 02:52:38 +0000

Trashie Rampage is our first entry into the 1 Game a Month challenge. I expect you’re probably already looking for the link to click to play it? Sorry but not this time. Trashie Rampage is a turn-based open-plan ‘war’ game for 2 players (ideally one of them aged around 6). I created the game one [...]

Yeti Dash HTML5 Mobile Browser Game

Rich — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 16:40:35 +0000

Back before Christmas (you remember Christmas don’t you? it seems so long ago now) we finished an HTML5 mobile browser game for the agency BiteCp as part of a Christmas campaign. In Yeti Dash you choose from 3 characters: a Viking, a penguin or a snow leopard and control them across a horizontally scrolling snow bound [...]

Old Jack’s Boat HTML5 game released for CBeebies

Rich — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 13:18:41 +0000

We are pleased to announce that our 4th HTML5 mobile browser game for the BBC pre-school channel CBeebies is now out. Based on the brand new show Old Jack’s Boat, staring Bernard Cribbins, Helen Lederer and Freema Agyeman, it allows little adventurers to peer into the depths of the sea and uncover the colourful characters living down [...]

Where did the time go?

Rich — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:43:40 +0000

2013 is certainly well under way now. Christmas and New Years are all but a distant memory and I suspect all of us are now deep back in to our work. Although we enjoyed a brief spell away from the office it’s full steam ahead here right now. I intended to write a summary of [...]

Assembloids Released

Rich — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 13:00:40 +0000

Back in May 2010 we released the game Quartet. The aim was simple – you had to put together the robots faces as quickly as possible. The more accurately you assemble them, the more points you get. As you progress the game gets faster and faster until eventually you’ll end-up putting a piece in the [...]

RealTime Kiwi Fusion Christmas Video

Rich — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 16:03:56 +0000

A quick summary of what’s going on right now: Realtime Contest First of all we’re happy to be one of the judges in the Realtime xRTML 3 contest that is now running. As their name implies Realtime provide some very smart web tech for real time push based messaging. This has massive application in HTML5 [...]

We’re Hiring an Intern / Junior Developer and looking for additional freelancers

Rich — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 22:23:58 +0000

Since starting to run Photon Storm full time earlier this year I always told myself I was going to keep things small. A micro-business if you will. Just myself handling development, my wife handling projects and we outsource the rest. But we’re at the point now where we are turning down considerable projects every week [...]