Google I/O 2011: Kick-Ass Game Programming with Google Web Toolkit
What it is
Google I/O 2011 session by Ray Cromwell and Philip Rogers on writing 2D and 3D games with HTML5 and GWT. It covers porting game libraries and physics engines, sharing code with Android, and publishing to the Chrome Web Store, and showcases the ForPlay library.
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN cites it as the original showing of ForPlay (later PlayN), the cross-platform Java game library.
- 1 people recommended it
- 1 different months
- 0 strong recommendations
- first 2011, last 2018
What HN commenters said
“I recently watched the ForPlay speech at Google I/O and it sounded promising”
ForPlay library for games compiling to Java, HTML5, Android and Flash
tilt, 2011-06 · Recommendation · in “Ask HN: Cross platform game development? ”
Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.
Topics: gwt, forplay, playn, html5 games, google io
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