Category Archives: Games

A game is structured playing ( Wikipedia )

YUI Library Par Three Golf Game Primer Tutorial

When last we created a web application golf game, with HTML Canvas Golf Accuracy Game Primer Tutorial, we used an HTML(5) canvas element, but today we thank YUI Library: Animating Along a Curved Path for the incredibly good Javascript library … Continue reading

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Walkways Quiz Game Primer Tutorial

Have you ever thought of a background image for a webpage, as a thing you could “regionally” click, as happens with the HTML map element? What about if we filled the webpage background with an HTML map element and its … Continue reading

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HTML/Javascript Guided Snake Game Drag and Drop Tutorial

Drag and drop is a cute concept with web application design, but usually only when talking about non-mobile platforms. Drag and drop on “touch” gesture mobile devices is not a natural fit. You can achieve it on mobile platforms, but … Continue reading

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HTML/Javascript Guided Snake Game Primer Tutorial

We’ve got a new (web application) game today that reminds us of our previous HTML/Javascript Scrabbling Snakes Game Email Tutorial in that it snakes around, the user guided by one or both of … CSS cursor property CSS linear gradient … Continue reading

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Skeletal System Game Reveal Tutorial

Continuing on from yesterday’s Skeletal System Game Primer Tutorial that started us on a “reveal” and “overlay” and “map element” Skeletal System Game we’re developing, let’s, today, “drill down” a bit into that “reveal” concept. After all, there are so … Continue reading

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Xcode SpriteKit Game Collisions Tutorial

The previous Xcode SpriteKit Game Primer Tutorial as shown below raved about the virtues of Xcode’s SpriteKit Game project’s cross-platform talents. We leave you to read about that below, and move on, today, to a more realistic “Collision” view of … Continue reading

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Adverb Types Game Primer Tutorial

If you study English grammar at a “word” level, the definition of an “adverb” becomes very fluid. We were taught at school, maybe to simplify things, that “adverbs modify verbs”, but maybe it was because we were so young then, … Continue reading

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Learning Programming Short Quiz Interfacing Tutorial

The original mobile and web Learning Programming application is every bit as much a game as it is a quiz, but we’re pretty sure there will be users out there not very interested in the “game” aspects to this. That … Continue reading

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