Building Atari With CreateJS (opens in new tab)

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86 pointsfatjonny13y ago11 comments

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Wow, Atari is taking JS games mainstream. It was bound to happen eventually.

Alright, I'm confused. I visited the arcade site on my Android device and it said Adobe Flash was required. Am I to understand their platform takes JS and compiles it into a Flash package?

ferongr13y ago

No, it doesn't. It's possible that whatever browser you're using doesn't support some feature, maybe requestAnimationFrame, but I could onlt speculate here. Flash is used for some ads though. I'd suggest you try either Chrome for Android (if on ICS) or Firefox Aurora for Android (the latter is guaranteed to work because both mobile and desktop versions of Firefox have standards support parity).

Disregarding the technical side of things though, the games themselves are below mediocre from a gameplay perspective.

nilliams13y ago

Well the games are remakes of the classics, so if you don't have any fondness for the originals, you probably aren't going to like them.

Personally I had some fun with lunar lander, though it seemed a lot easier than the BBC micro version I remember :)

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Gamefoo13y ago

IE only? I don't know which kind of message they are trying to pass, but going from retro to irrelevant is definitely not the right one.

fatjonnyOP13y ago

It is not IE only. CreateJS works well in the major browsers. The games work in new versions of all browsers. The games are only ad-free in IE and should work well especially in IE 10 as this looks to be partially sponsored by Microsoft.

Some of the links at the end also pertain specifically to IE.

TazeTSchnitzel13y ago

Microsoft also got Cut the Rope ported to HTML5 for IE9: http://cuttherope.ie/ (yes, they used Ireland's TLD since it's IE...)

aliem13y ago

I don't really know why they are pushing IE10 since it's not even out yet (unless someone is sponsoring them). By the way the small demos are working in chrome, quite slowly but working

nilliams13y ago

I can only imagine they're slow because you don't have hardware acceleration working in your Chrome (type about:gpu into your address-bar to see what the deal is). All demos run smooth for me, as do all the games in the atari arcade: http://atari.com/arcade

I'm generally very impressed with what they've done here (aside from the 'install IE10 to remove adds' thing).

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Raphael13y ago

Wow, Atari is taking JS games mainstream. It was bound to happen eventually.

Raphael13y ago

Alright, I'm confused. I visited the arcade site on my Android device and it said Adobe Flash was required. Am I to understand their platform takes JS and compiles it into a Flash package?

ferongr13y ago

Disregarding the technical side of things though, the games themselves are below mediocre from a gameplay perspective.

nilliams13y ago

Well the games are remakes of the classics, so if you don't have any fondness for the originals, you probably aren't going to like them.

Personally I had some fun with lunar lander, though it seemed a lot easier than the BBC micro version I remember :)

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Gamefoo13y ago

IE only? I don't know which kind of message they are trying to pass, but going from retro to irrelevant is definitely not the right one.

fatjonnyOP13y ago

Some of the links at the end also pertain specifically to IE.

TazeTSchnitzel13y ago

Microsoft also got Cut the Rope ported to HTML5 for IE9: http://cuttherope.ie/ (yes, they used Ireland's TLD since it's IE...)

aliem13y ago

I don't really know why they are pushing IE10 since it's not even out yet (unless someone is sponsoring them). By the way the small demos are working in chrome, quite slowly but working

nilliams13y ago

I'm generally very impressed with what they've done here (aside from the 'install IE10 to remove adds' thing).

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