Introducing a Minimalist Html5 Game Template

https://blog.mozilla.org/labs/2012/05/introducing-a-minimalist-html5-game-template/

by ojr • 14 years ago

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DigitalSea• 14 years ago

Interesting. Perhaps because I've had a bit of experience dabbling in some pretty graphically intensive/impressive HTML5 applications this template isn't all that impressive to me and I was expecting a lot more. Needless to say, it's great people are releasing things like this and no doubt it'll get a bit more feature packed as people fork and make changes hopefully. Exciting times ahead, now where's my beer template, I'm thirsty.

dmose24• 14 years ago

My hope was that choosing to refer to it as "minimalist" would help calibrate people's expectations not to expect to much. I'd be interested in other language or naming that we could use to make that more clear.

This template will indeed become somewhat more featureful over time, but part of the intent is that highly specialized, opinionated, and therefore featureful templates should be built on top of this one (eg a template for an MMORPG). Again, thoughts on better verbiage to make this more clear would be greatly appreciated.

Tloewald• 14 years ago

It would be nice if a link were provided to a simple example showing off the template. Lots of hoop jumping to see hello world...

epaik2• 14 years ago

I agree.

I also find it a little strange that they're 'releasing' something that has a version of 0.1. Can't it wait until there's something substantial to show off? I was excited reading the headline and seeing it's from Mozilla, but I was disappointed by the dearth of examples.

Still, as a game development enthusiast I'll be following the progress of this project.

dmose24• 14 years ago

As a primary author of the template, I can offer some insight here. This was originally posted on the Mozilla Labs site, which is one of the ways that we try to offer cues that this is early days and not yet production software. As far as the verb "releasing", I don't have a sense for how better to word a blog post about a 0.1 version of something, but I'm very much open to suggestions.

Other folks have asked for an examples as well, and I'm still struggling with the best way forward here. At the very least, I'm thinking that the next version wants the text from "let's get started" included as well as a screencast demonstrating how one could start off a project (by typing at the command-line). But the reality is that this is a minimalist template that most consists of infrastructure bits (it eases pulling in libraries, building, deploying, modularity, tests, etc.). So it's a bit like the HTML5 boilerplate in the sense that it's not very opinionated -- it's applicable and supports almost any sort of game. So if you have thoughts on the best way to demo and talk about this, I'd love to hear them.

karolisd• 14 years ago

Is there a reason the link is https? I had to change it to http to work.

Skalman• 14 years ago

https works well for me.

gcao• 14 years ago

Interesting project. It'll be good to have coffeescript support.

dmose24• 14 years ago

I'm not a coffeescript guy, so I'm curious what sort of support would be most valuable? Would there be more than just a build command?

Introducing a Minimalist Html5 Game Template

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