Browser Based Card Games and Javascript

Thursday, July 29 2010 -

Lately I’ve been playing around with javascript based browser games. Specifically I’ve been creating card games that run in the browser. There are two goals here: 1) create a functional game using essentially nothing but javascript and 2) setup to convert the games to use HTML5 elements.

The first game “Race to the Moon” is live. I learned a ton in creating this one. The biggest thing I learned aside from debugging javascript sucks is that I’m not a graphic artist. I spent more time trying to come up with the graphics for the game than anything else. Graphically there are still issues, but I’ve moved on to the next game tentatively titled “Life Engines”.

Development is about 80% done, but I’m using placeholder graphics still (ugh). So I have to start creating the art work. I have two other games in the pipeline, each growing more complex and varied as time goes on.