#HTML game development

[slavnagamestudio]

HTML Game Development: A Beginner’s Guide to Creating Interactive Experiences

HTML game development has become an accessible and exciting field for aspiring game developers. With its combination of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, creating interactive gaming experiences has never been easier. Whether you're looking to build your first game or refine your skills, this beginner’s guide will introduce you to the essential concepts and tools needed to get started in HTML game development.

Why Choose HTML for Game Development?

HTML5 is a powerful technology for developing games, offering several advantages:

Cross-Platform Compatibility: HTML5 games work seamlessly across various devices, including desktop computers, smartphones, and tablets.

Ease of Learning: If you already have basic web development skills, diving into HTML game development will feel like a natural next step.

Low Barrier to Entry: HTML-based games can be created without expensive software or advanced hardware.

Key Tools and Technologies

To start creating HTML games, you will need to familiarize yourself with the following technologies:

HTML5: This is the core language used for structuring the content of your game. HTML5 introduces the element, which is essential for drawing 2D graphics and handling animations.

CSS3: CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) helps in designing the layout and styling of your game. It’s used for elements like background colors, fonts, and even animations.

JavaScript: The backbone of any interactive HTML game, JavaScript handles the logic, animation, and user input. It allows you to control game mechanics, such as character movement, collisions, and score tracking.

Getting Started: Basic Game Structure

Set Up Your Development Environment: Before writing any code, ensure you have a text editor (like Visual Studio Code or Sublime Text) and a web browser (such as Chrome or Firefox) for testing your game.

Create the HTML Structure: Begin by setting up the HTML file with a element where the game graphics will be rendered. This will be your game’s "stage."

Add CSS for Styling: Use CSS to style the page, including setting up a background color or image for your game scene. You can also position your game canvas to fit the screen.

Write JavaScript for Interactivity: Use JavaScript to define the game logic, including how objects move, how players interact with elements, and how to manage events like starting and pausing the game.

Tips for Beginners

Start Small: Begin with simple games, like a basic platformer or puzzle game, to gradually learn the ins and outs of HTML game development.

Use Game Engines: While you can build games from scratch, game engines like Phaser.js can help streamline the process by providing built-in functionality for physics, input, and game states.

Test Frequently: Regularly test your game in different browsers and on various devices to ensure it runs smoothly across platforms.

Conclusion

HTML game development offers an exciting entry point into the world of game design. With the right tools, a bit of creativity, and determination, you can create engaging interactive experiences. By mastering HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript, you’ll be well on your way to developing your first HTML game and sharing it with the world. Start experimenting today and discover just how fun and rewarding HTML game development can be!

[fanfenomenon]

hyperfixated on this game so hard i tried to recreate ac syndicate's animus database using html css and js👍

i will make this responsive though, i've only started doing the frontend but i'll also start doing the backend as soon as i finish this

basically this is gonna be a website that will allow you to create a database of your assassin's creed OCs (btw this was inspired by @gwen-the-assassin's idea <33) and help you with worldbuilding and making AUs (i know the ac fanon wiki already exists for that but i wanted to make the experience of keeping a database more immersive u know....)

this might take a while to be completed, but I'll try to post updates on it as much as possible! if there are any programmers/web developers in the ac fandom that want to contribute to this project plsplspls DM me!!

actual pic of the database for comparison:

ik it's not entirely accurate but this is the simplest database in the game that i could recreate lmao

also code snippets just cuz (+ me crashing out)

[falconoflight7851]

The Sounds of Flesh on Flesh is a soon to be interactive-fiction game on the horrors of the flesh that is both of your own and of others and the very other.

You are a construction worker made to destroy meat, rather than stone. Buildings around you have taken the form of flesh like any other living being. It is you, the nameless protagonist, and only you, and no other, who must destroy them all until they are dust.

The story is an extremely story-heavy and word-heavy fiction, with the inclusion of pixelated artwork, short animations, and puzzle mini-games.

The project aims to be completed by the end of Summer 2025, with the release of a demo June 2025. The complete project is short, amateurish, and a gateway to further projects and developments. This project is fully developed using the help of Twine, an HTML-based engine, and JavaScript/HTML language. Upon release, it will be on Itch.io for free.

[codegummy]

Game with HTML Canvas and Vanilla JS

Been a little stressed out with school and all so I made a little project to cool off a bit. I followed this YT tutorial showing how to code the Google dinosaur game. But then I made new vector illustrations to use instead of a the ones provided in the source code . To give it a touch of cuteness ⸜(｡˃ ᵕ ˂ )⸝♡

[windsails]

ohh!!! i had a really good idea. a social media site with a circular timeline called samsara

[cornsandwitch]

some hobbies i want to get into soon:

stained glass art - it’s beautiful and i think it’ll be a good soft entry into metal working

record collecting - and just listening to albums more intentionally, broadening my taste, studying music as a craft. do you have any recs? so far i’ve listened to taylor swift. what else is good?

coding - i recently discovered neocities and now im obsessively coding my own website. got me learning javascript and daydreaming about designing and writing games someday

[mechanical-moron]

Programmers, Web designers, game developers, anyone else who does stuff with numbers on a computer screen.....curious to know if you guys ever dream in code, and if so, do you like it? I for one do not find it to be particularly enjoyable but want to hear what others have to say lol.

[clipglitch]

Hey neocities community! I'm a freelance illustrator and game artist dipping my toes into web design for the first time. My ambition is to create a portfolio site with a point-and-click game vibe, using the most simple code I can put together. I would love to create a unique space that feels interactive and endlessly exploreable. The site will feature my various art projects, and there are already some (small) playable games up for download. I'm aiming to add more animated elements later down the line, but I'm currently learning the ropes of html and the site is still very bare bones. For now, please enjoy the fun visuals of my cave as I continue digging the tunnels deeper and deeper..

These are some of my current goals i'm seeking more resources/tutorials for: -Find a suitable way to add buttons and text on an image -Play animations when hovering and on button press -Layering images -Create a photo gallery with filters/tags in the style of the site -Make the site more accessible and scale everything consistently -Build a simple dressup game using drag and drop pngs -Find a new guestbook host, as 123guestbook.com is going away

[blueberry-shortbread]

I wonder how much the custom blog html editor lets you do. Like I know you can play music like MySpace did, but could I turn a sideblog into a choose-your-own adventure rpg?

I'm curious if anyone has done this yet. Surely there's at least a couple tumblr blog/web game hybrids out there, already

[venezart]

APPLE’S REJECTION OF META AI TOOLS: A STANCE ON PRIVACY AND SECURITY

[cha0s-rat]

Test out what I’ve got so far HERE

Aheheha. Here I am, back again, with a new thing that I may or may not finish. Anyway, here’s a thing I made with Gdevelop because I got bored today. Trailer made in Chimp Champ

[loressa]

Been working on UI as I update Earthsong, my jam entry from my favorite game jam, Regenerate!

Here's what the page first looked like:

Here is where I'm at now:

I'll make more tweaks before I'm done (the scrollbar overflow in particular!), but I'm really happy with the progress and my improvement at CSS!

Colors will be able to be changed for accessibility.

Edit: after a bit more tinkering:

Edit: I've discovered flex: 1 - see bottom bar buttons!

Edit: I adore this scrollbar. Just need to figure out how to make it not overlap. But I am in love with the color gradient, keep sitting during debugging just scrolling up and down lol

[raspilicious]

Dynamic, Interactive Card Previews on itch.io

Soooooo I got some super duper mega fancy animations for some of my one-card microgames all working and polished on itchio! 😱 🤯 🤩 🥰 The cards now FLIP OVER when you hover your mouse on them on my itchio pages! I'm so proud and excited that I got them working, and to show you all here! 😊

I also think that it's the second or third instance of dynamic, interactive animated content I've ever seen on itchio other than embedded or linked videos or GIF images! It just doesn't seem to be very common at all on itchio, from what I've seen.

It took me DAYS to get the interaction working properly for the first card... 🫠 But then mere hours to do all of the other three together! And now that I have a pretty solid process working, it'll take me even less time to add this interactivity to my other games, too! So, I'll be adding similar previews to as many of my other games on itchio as I can. Stay tuned for that! 😎

In short, I manually wrote the HTML of the pages and used CSS to animate the card flips. I am more than happy to talk with people about how I got this working if you're keen to know. Just hit me up in a chat-worthy place! 😊

If you're keen to check them out yourselves, pop over to one of these pages of mine linked below, and simply hover your mouse over the card to flip it over! (Or, if you're using a touch-screen, tap on the card to flip it over, then tap somewhere off the card to flip it back.)

DESTRUCTO-BALL

Treasure Trader

Patchwork Memories

Yet It Feels Like Home

Please share any feedback you have with me as I am more than happy to receive it, and it'll surely help me improve the pages and animation further than I could by myself.

Thank you, and enjoy! 🥰

[dinohunter2]

h a l p

Anybody out there familiar with HTML and willing to lend a hand to a random idiot?

(the random idiot is me)

[bloomzeye]

I made the game ‘Watermelon Match’ within 48 hours after hearing about the Global Strike for Ceasefire for Palestine on December 11th, 2023. My pixel art and game design may be lacking, but I hope that this is a small reminder to keep going for the people in Palestine and Gaza. 🍉

My itch game page: https://bloomzeye.itch.io/watermelon-match

[koshekdev]

Ok, so I've made two prototypes for the dress up games I am planning to publish to my neocities site.

First one just stores dresses and shoes in an array and overlays them as u click on the arrows. The assets were made by @v4mp1r3fr34k and the background was taken with Nokia Express Music <3

Second one has actual drag'n'drop. I didn't have any assets for it so I just took the first royalty free pngs I could find XD It will not stay like this, tho I am glad the vintage babe is enjoying the club. I made it with just HTML Drag and Drop API. As you drop it, it snaps into place thanks to appendChild method, which I learned about reading the d'n'd docs yesterday. I was afraid I was going to have to track the x,y positions of the elements on screen, but thank god appendChild solved that for me XD

I'll try to make them responsive as possible ;_; I'll also try to make the previous ads responsive cuz some people in my life are peer pressuring me...