Sessions at onGameStart on Thursday 22nd September

Building great web games is all well and good, but how do you ensure gamers play your games on all their devices? And, how do you ensure this leads to a continued revenue stream that can also fuel new developments?

Here at Spil Games we know games need great experiences, not just technology. That's how we've reached over 130 million monthly players. At onGameStart we will share our success stories, lessons learned and best practices in designing, developing, distributing and monetizing games across multiple platforms.

I will showcase the few, simple concepts that make up GameJs, and how others have used those to create fun applications. My main interest lies in exploring how we, the software developers and game designers, can best deal with the difficult task of designing artifacts that humans not only enjoy but crave for. I will talk about why this 'human factor' is at the core of any game, and how other design disciplines - like industrial design or architecture - have long understood that finding an optimal solution for human needs requires a design oriented funnel. I will try (and probably fail) to prove that JavaScript is the only programming language to adequately tackle the above mentioned obstacles (at least JS is a pretty good at it) and how I try to make GameJs a community of game makers, not engine coders.

We all love 2d browser games. But times are changing, and developers should also dig into 3D. This raises multiple problems with rendering, collisions etc. Kuba will take you into a journey showing one of the possible approaches, meaning octree structures.

Marius will give a presentation on how to implement a 3D engine in HTML5 using only the Canvas2D API. The talk will present several 3D engines, each building on the previous one, starting from absolute scratch until a polygon engine with textures and shading is implemented. Each step will have an explanation of the mathematics and the JavaScript sourcecode needed to implement it.

We've been here before ya' know? Browser-based games without plugins aren't something entirely new and whizzy. Web games developers and, more specifically, the 'persistent' browser-based games (PBBG) development community have been crafting products of long-term player enjoyment for upwards of a decade, though the fruits of their labours are often near-completely unknown to all but the most forgiving of games players. So why is that? In this talk, I discuss the history of 'persistent' browser-based games, the PBBG development zeitgeist, and how HTML5 can be employed to both embellish and complement existing PBBGs and to significantly enhance the player experience of the new breed of Web-based indie games that are just around the corner. PBBGs aren't sexy... YET!

The aim of this presentation is to show some of our experiences in javascript and some html5-based game development. How to address your products to as many devices as possible with one single development and give some solutions we have came across with to solve this gap.

Creating a highly portable game engine is like navigating uncharted waters -- from the very beginning you develop using bleeding-edge technologies, struggling to comply with unfinished standards' drafts and working around all supported platforms' quirks. We have experienced HTML5 teething troubles first-hand and know that most well-established solutions translate rather poorly to the realm of web technologies. In this talk Piotr will explain some of the biggest challenges we encountered on our road to Solpeo Gaming Platform.

During this session, we will show how Internet Explorer uses the potential of HTML5 and other modern webstandards. Will be shown examples from Polish market and some best practices from the entire world. Additionally, we will present how to promote your great work among Windows users. Attend this session and discover beauty of the web!

Alice.js is a new, experimental project started by Research In Motion® (RIM®) to exploit hardware accelerated graphics for web applications using CSS3 2D and 3D facilities. It is a micro JavaScript® library focused on creating fun, useful animations around web page elements (DIVs) using a single line of JavaScript code. This session introduces Alice, discusses how it was built and looks at some of its innovative aspects such as Organics - automated randomization to give animations a more organic non-repetitive feel. We’ll show a simple, concrete HTML5 game that makes use of these techniques and discuss how those same effects are also relevant to business applications.

If you're graphics desiger, we'll show you what tools you should use to make the developer life easier. If you're developer, we'll show you how to optimize the graphics for better performance. There'll be also some nice bunch of insipration for everybody.

Introduction to 9leap.net, the HTML5 mini game contest site that topped 100,000 users within just one month of launch. Introduction to enchant.js, the HTML5 game engine that made efficient game development possible for 9leap. Discussion of future prospects for HTML5 gaming technology.