My Tech Evangelist colleagues, Joe Raio and Brian Sherwin, have create a great set of video tutorials on how to create your own website using Azure. This is part of Microsoft’s Choose to Code campaign, which guides your middle and high school students through a series of online tutorials walking them through the process of creating and…
Join the discussion on Reddit. WebGL (Web Graphics Library) is a JavaScript API for rendering interactive 3D computer graphics and 2D graphics within any compatible web browser without the use of plug-ins. You will often find developers using it for games, but it is finally gaining widespread visibility across the web, and is now being used…
Join the conversation on Reddit. I recently wrote an article about some of my favorite Chrome extensions, partly because I wanted to share some of the things I felt worked well, but also because I wanted to learn about what others were using as well. I’ve added quite a few extensions in my daily use…
You can find the first three parts of this series here: Night Trap – switching branches Rebuilding Night Trap Deconstructing Night Trap I’m still making progress on this HTML5 port of Night Trap. The playable version hasn’t changed at all, but I’ve been consistently making changes to the Alpha branch, which currently has over 200…
UPDATED: 2/2/16 I have a video overview for all of this now, too. Writing code for multiple platforms can be a lot of work. It can be even more work to have to completely rewrite it for each one, too. What if you wrote an application in C++, but wanted it to be displayed in…
UPDATE: Some great conversation about the pros and cons of this approach on Reddit. In rebuilding Night Trap, I ran into an issue where I needed to listen for an event, specifically when the URL for the video feed changes as a user is viewing a camera in a particular room. For example, I am…
You can find parts 1 and 2 of this series here: Deconstructiong Night Trap Rebuilding Night Trap We’ve made a lot of progress with Night Trap this weekend. I started by further compressing the videos on the prototype site, which will allow for smaller and faster downloads, as well as quicker camera switching. I won’t…
In my previous post I talked about the process of tearing the game down, so that I could build it up again. Today I created a spreadsheet containing information about each scene in the first few minutes of the game. It proved to be far more time intensive than initially anticipated. ———————– @DaveVoyles Subscribe to…
You can find the other parts of this series here: Night Trap – switching branches Rebuilding Night Trap More progress with the HTML5 port of Night Trap A few days ago I built a quick prototype for getting Night Trap running in the browser. It’s rough, but hey, it works. Right now I am streaming the…
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