What are you working on? April 2012

David_Gerard

This is the bimonthly 'What are you working On?' thread. Previous threads are here. So here's the question:

What are you working on?

Here are some guidelines:

Focus on projects that you have recently made progress on, not projects that you're thinking about doing but haven't started.
Why this project and not others? Mention reasons why you're doing the project and/or why others should contribute to your project (if applicable).
Talk about your goals for the project.
Any kind of project is fair game: personal improvement, research project, art project, whatever.
Link to your work if it's linkable.

This is the bimonthly 'What are you working On?' thread. Previous threads are here. So here's the question:

What are you working on?

Here are some guidelines:

Focus on projects that you have recently made progress on, not projects that you're thinking about doing but haven't started.
Why this project and not others? Mention reasons why you're doing the project and/or why others should contribute to your project (if applicable).
Talk about your goals for the project.
Any kind of project is fair game: personal improvement, research project, art project, whatever.
Link to your work if it's linkable.

It's a matter of taste, but right now seems to be a sweet moment for making games in JavaScript/HTML5. People will have a lower barrier to playing your game, and you'll get free publicity because many developers are holding their breath for HTML5 games right now. Also the development process will be pretty cool because you can simply reload the page instead of recompiling, right click on game objects to see their properties in an HTML inspector, execute random code snippets from the console while the game is running...

My next project will probably be a JavaScript game, but I started with Java because it's my favorite language. Although I often use JavaScript too.

I don't want to start "what is your favorite language" mindkilling debate, but for me programming in Java is more pleasant than in JavaScript. Partially because of the language, partially because of the tools. It is nice to write an anonymous function in JavaScript quickly, but I prefer a language with mandatory variable declaration and static typing, because it finds many errors in compile time, which... (read more)

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