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HTML5 games you must check out!

By Joseph D. Lienjdlien. Friday, October 8, 2010 7:51:48 PM

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HTML5 Games you Must Try

HTML5 enables some pretty cool stuff in your browser. Check out these fun games - with no plugins required!


HTML5 and other modern web technologies can enable some pretty cool stuff in your browser without the need for any additional plugins. What is even more impressive is how easy it can be to create these games.

Although HTML5 is in its relative infancy, there are some promising demos out there that show what the future may hold. Even better, there are several fun and cool games that you can play right now! The best part is that most of these types of games work great in Opera because it currently has the fastest implementation of HTML5 Canvas.

Here are some of my favorites that you should check out:

Biolab Disaster

Dominic Szablewski created a neat game engine and made a really cool retro-styled side scroller game where you can battle with all kinds of monsters. It features a great soundtrack and buttery smooth gameplay. He created a "making of" video as well that is worth a watch. He notes that Opera performs much better with this game than any other browser due to its excellent Canvas implementation! yes

Update

This game is now also available in this awesome Opera Widget!

Agent8ball

A neat billiards game with sharp graphics - the object is to sink as many balls as you can before the timer runs out. One of the balls is a time bomb that will explode if you run out of time!

Processed Tower Defense

Although the graphics don't look so fancy, this is a remarkably addictive game. You have to build towers to defend from intruding "monsters" while managing your resources (Gold earned from destroying invaders). It seems easy until you get past the first 20 or 30 waves of enemies, and then look out! What's your high score?

Asteroids

The classic Asteroids game that you have probably played over and over again forever, but in HTML5 Canvas, and sporting some impressive visuals. It features nice, smooth gameplay in Opera!

Sarien: Classic Sierra Adventure Games

If you're as old as I am, you may have nostalgic memories of playing Sierra Adventure games in glorious EGA graphics, typing in fairly arbitrary phrases trying to solve each puzzle so that you could advance to the next part of the game. All the classics are available at www.sarien.net: King's Quest, Police Quest, Space Quest, and yes, even Leisure Suit Larry!

Have you found any other neat HTML5 based browser games that are worthy of some attention? Let us know in the comments!

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Comments

d4rkn1ght Friday, October 8, 2010 9:16:22 PM

Biolab Disaster it's so cool and addicting! cool yes

ErikshaktiIIIgta Saturday, October 9, 2010 1:13:31 AM

played biolab disaster twice already, very nice game ! great Opera handled it nicely

shahmeer haqshahmeerhaq Saturday, October 9, 2010 7:55:41 AM

agaent 8 ball not working great in the opera...

Joseph D. Lienjdlien Saturday, October 9, 2010 9:56:27 AM

What version are you using? It seemed to work great in 10.62 when I tried it. There was a problem with some text at the beginning of the game, but it doesn't affect the game very much.

Personally it took me a couple of tries to figure out the interface for the game (until I read the instructions), but after that it worked great.

avoidz Saturday, October 9, 2010 1:11:26 PM

HTML5 might be the future, but Flash still performs faster across more hardware, old and new. These games demonstrate that to me.

Joseph D. Lienjdlien Saturday, October 9, 2010 7:19:44 PM

All of the ones here perform as fast as I could ever want... but I haven't tried on particularly old hardware. Definitely the experience of these games on a device like the iPad leaves a lot to be desired though - but Flash wouldn't perform any better, given what I've seen.

Vladimir Butorrfebutor Sunday, October 10, 2010 8:53:59 AM

Okay, this is the thing I'll be probably interested in,at last there is nothing to do while sitting at lections. who has an adress of any simple documentation on creating a pilot mini-game with HTML5 (languages: russian, byelorusian, english)?

sorinzoro Monday, October 11, 2010 6:17:00 AM

moore tehnical detail plz.

DavidSchalandra Monday, October 11, 2010 8:30:55 AM

Opera 10.70 Build9049 WinXP has some graphics issues with Biolab. sad
But speed and sound are working great... a bit hard to play if you can't differentiate between background and enemies. bigsmile

Joseph D. Lienjdlien Monday, October 11, 2010 12:07:34 PM

The problem in 10.70 should be resolved soon.

Unrealmirakulix Tuesday, October 12, 2010 8:46:21 AM

on 10.70 #9067 works:
Biolab Disaster not!
Agent8ball nearly...
Processed Tower Defense yes!
Asteroids yes!
Sarien: Classic Sierra Adventure Games yes!

Joseph D. Lienjdlien Tuesday, October 12, 2010 9:14:29 AM

Hey people, there's a new WIDGET version of Biolab disaster available now! Biolab Disaster Opera Widget!

Joeljgm21 Wednesday, October 13, 2010 11:27:23 PM

AWESOME!
I've been searching for html5 games bigsmile
thanks!
up

Kevin Roastshkwav Thursday, October 14, 2010 11:26:34 AM

New Opera widget available based on the HTML5 Asteroids game above: http://widgets.opera.com/widget/19933/ party

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