Came across this (http://www.gotoandplay.it/spotLight/2kingdoms/) article on the Flash game development site gotoAndPlay() (http://www.gotoandplay.it/). The article was somewhat interesting in its own right, so I decided to give the game a try. I'm still not sure what to make of it, but thought others might want to check it out and see what is being done lately with online, Flash based games.

It is still difficult for me to get past the look of the game, which is somewhat primitive, but I am going to play for a while more to see what lies beneath. :)

You might find this game interesting:


http://www.battleon.com

How about I 1up you and post the best Javascript RPG Ever!

http://www.smokymonkeys.com/triglav/

(now where's princec when you need him....)

@Dan:

That is really quite well done, though it's a shame it only seems to work in IE (Mozilla has performance issues, but these can be gotten around if you work at it). It is strange that I've never come across it before, considering that advanced Javascript is one of my big interests.

I was actually on the hook to do a Javascript game programming book for No Starch and O'Reilly, but decided to let it go for the time being due to time constraints and other issues. Still, I and others (like the author of Triglav, there) have done some things with Javascript that would make most game programmers do a double take.

Perhaps one day I'll release my cross-browser particle engine... it's really quite cool, though unfinished.

Yeah, i was really impressed with what you can do sliding some div's around. Pretty stinking impressed, it loads so fast too...

doesn't work for me *with* ie... starts to load the game, then dumps me back to the index. maybe I missed something. Oh well.

papillon,

What version of IE are you using? And are you on a Mac or a PC?

Here's another site with some simply stunning javascript based games:

http://plaza.harmonix.ne.jp/~jimmeans/

@triptych:

Yeah, I'm familiar with those games, but honestly, I find them to be dated and somewhat weak overall. So much more can be done with browser based games, though the negatives often outweigh the positives for larger projects. However, that is not always the case.

If you are interested in seeing a collection of Javascript games, try javascript-games.org (http://www.javascript-games.org) (the site is down at the moment... looks like someone forgot to pay the bill!). The archive is hit and miss as far as quality is concerned, but the games written by the owner of the site, Scott Porter, are pretty solid. There is also a forum and a nice little Javascript game programming tutorial. Activity dropped off on the forums for the last few months, but it seems to be picking up again.

Also, check out the DHTML/Javascript forum over at OzoneAsylum (http://www.ozoneasylum.com) for some interesting code and discussion.