2D web-game: on what?

Question

I want make 2d fighting game. Without very fast moving and very cool effects. I can do it with jquery, but i think this be a slow. Or not ? Q: Is there an alternative for flash?

PS: sorry for my ugly english

Answer 1

Microsoft Silverlight is similar to flash, but not flash.

Answer 2

Jquery is not designed whatsoever to do what you want, flash however is the obvious and ubiquitous solution as far as you're talking about a browser game. If you want something localized, look for graphics packages for whatever language you're comfortable with: pygame[python], gosu[ruby]

Answer 3

You might want to check out Processing.js, if you prefer not using browser plug-ins.

Processing.js uses Javascript to draw shapes and manipulate images on the Canvas element. The code is light-weight, simple to learn and makes an ideal tool for visualizing data, creating user-interfaces and developing web-based games.

Answer 4

Saw this yesterday on reddit: http://www.renderengine.com/demos.php JavaScript game engine

Answer 5

Bubblemark provides a "performance test" of sorts of all of your available options. I'm biased, but I'd still say Flash.

Answer 6

Flash can be done in the traditional sense or in Flex if you want it more of a traditional programming experience. Silverlight is a great flash substitute if you would rather do your programming in .net. Javascript games are possible but difficult to do I think you would save a lot of your time if you did it in flash instead.

Answer 7

I already saw most options listed, but I thought I'd chime in with another great option that is now free (unless your game makes more than $100K/year and then you must pay a one time $1,500 fee: Unity.

This game generation tool allows you to use a visual developement environment with either javascript, boo or C# to develop games that can be played in a browser, on windows or on a mac. Though it is best known for 3D game development, it certainly supports 2D development.

Here is an example of a browser based 2D game made using Unity.

Answer 8

I believe a great option would be to use SilverSprite. It allows for creating XNA games for Microsoft SilverLight using the same knowledge base you find for Windows and XBOX 360 (only working for 2D games so far)

Answer 9

If you like get this game running on the most computers out there I would go for these technologies:

• Flash (fast, and availabable and installed nearly everywhere, frameworks for gameprogramming are out there)
• JavaScript (no browser-plugin required, but performance will realy suck, especially at older computers or browsers)
• Silverlight (could be suitable, but still a just a very few people have it installed and I do not know if there any good working versions for Mac and Linux)
• JavaApplets (lesser installations then Flash, could be fine, altough it seems quite unsexy to use JavaApplets in these days.)

Answer 10

You mentioned jQuery for games, and I recently came across the gameQuery library. Coupled with jQuery 1.4 (with recent performance improvements) and the fact that all major browser vendors are falling over themselves lately to improve JavaScript performance, building a game without Flash or Silverlight is now feasible and productive.

I have also investigated the Raphaël library (raphaeljs.com), a low-level graphics alternative to Processing.js and canvas mentioned earlier. SVG elements are indeed compatible with jQuery. Here's an example of a hex grid on Raphaël with jQuery for click events.

Answer 11

You should check out Effect Games.

It is a free to use, online hosted Javascript Game Engine that runs incredibly smooth and supports all major browsers. Don't believe me? Play this demo, or this one.

Those that say you must use Flash and Javascript is too slow, obviously haven't been paying attention, especially to the newer browser such as Chrome that utilise compiled javascript. Why use Flash, when you can have a cross platform, cross browser game developed using native browser functionality.

You should also check out Chrome Experiments to see just how much current Javascript (and sometimes HTML5) capabliities have improved.

Effect Games provides free, online tools for building, sharing and playing your own browser based games.

Your games may include sound effects, music, and multiple layers of parallax-scrolling tiles and sprites.

Users can play your games right in their browsers, without needing any new plugins or extensions. Publish your games on your website or blog, share on social networking sites, and submit them to our featured games section!

Build your games using JavaScript and our custom browser game engine, level editor, and suite of developer tools. The Effect Engine supports Mac OS X, Windows, Linux and all modern browsers including IE, Firefox, Chrome, Opera and Safari.

Answer 12

Panda3D is a full-blown game engine that can make browser-based executables. I have not tested this functionality myself, but it seems to work pretty well. http://www.panda3d.org

check it out, it rocks.