TLDR: Type safety, productivity, intellisense, and debugging. UPDATE: TypeScript 2.0 was released on Sept. 22, 2016 In continuing with my recent trend of using TypeScript, I wanted to illustrate how to create functions and variables in TypeScript, because this initially threw me into a loop. The code for this example can be found here. JavaScript and C#…
Whenever I hear developers say “The web is slow” I think of the experiences others have crafted from WebGL, the graphics API available to the browser. Several developers from Microsoft started the open source WebGL framework, BabylonJS, several years ago and continue to build on it now. On this page you’ll find their latest experience. …
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…
Listen to the podcast Download the .mp3 Subscribe via iTunes David Catuhe is a Principal Program Manager on Microsoft’s TED team in Redmond. He is also one of the master -minds behind the open source WebGL framework, BabylonJS. WebGL has grown leaps and bounds in recent years, and Babylon continues to iterate with it. As…
I gave a talk this morning at the East Coast Game Conference about the current state of WebGL for game developers. You can find the slides here. I also spoke about asm.js and how middleware vendors like Unity and Epic are using it to power the web versions of their games. Firefox currently has the…
The Babylon.js team made some big updates with 2.0 this week, as announced by David Catuhe( @deltakosh). You can find the latest news about it here. The Web Audio support in this haunted mansion demo is pretty crazy: Major updates Support for WebAudio. More info here (davrous) Support for Procedural Texture with standard usable samples and…
Update: User pyalot on reddit has pointed me towards an excellent site for tracking WebGL usage and statistics: http://webglstats.com/. WebGL Stats uses a tracker frame embedded in other sites to collect the data. You can help too, just embed the code below into your page. <script src=”//cdn.webglstats.com” defer=”defer” async=”async”></script> Back to the original post. The web is…
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This post is part of 3 week series giving current and aspiring game devs the tools, resources, and advice they need to get started building for Windows. We also have a great video course on game production basics at Microsoft Virtual Academy. Visual Studio Community Edition You need an IDE, or Integrated Development Environment,…