It was great meeting everyone last night at the Bristech meetup. It was my first attempt at doing a live coding session. It was a steep learning curve but I was encouraged to chat to a few people who have been inspired to build a game themselves.
So I did build the game beforehand and have put up the code to the game on Github under http://github.com/davetayls/bomber.
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I had the pleasure of presenting at AKQA Anoraks in London on thursday. It was a great packed evening. I gave a talk on my adventure over the last few months of building my simple Space Invaders game. Even though it’s a pretty simple game I have learnt enough to talk about it or half an hour.
I began building a very simple HTML5 racer game back in November. It was my first exploration in to doing simple games with HTML5 and canvas.
It has lay dormant for a while, I’m going to take it another step further and put the car on a track in this article and inflict some speed drag when the car is not on the track.
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So open up your fave image package and draw a track. I searched for the Silverstone Circuit and simplified it a bit. I ended up with this:
I’ve been wanting to try my hand at doing some game development for a while and I finally managed to make a start.
I decided to make a simple driving game using HTML5. I began doing a bit of a search for tutorials which build a simple top view racing game but didn’t stumble upon any for HTML5. I did find a flash tutorial which I have used as a starting point.
Dave Taylor - Software Engineer