Some of you might have seen it already – we tweeted about it at launch in December – but here comes Bounceball the blogpost.
Google asked us to create a game in HTML5 for the launch of the Chrome Webstore. So we set out to do a good looking and hopefully addictive platform game using the Chrome logotype as the ever bouncing main character.
From a technical perspective it was fun to see what we could do with the canvas element. Quite a bit it seems, even though it’s fair to say that we ran into some issues, especially the performance varied a lot between browsers. In this particular project that was sort of OK though, since one of the goals was to show how fast Google Chrome is.
Go visit the webstore and try it yourself – preferably using Chrome then.
Hello North Kingdom Team, your game is very amusing. Thanks for your hard work.
I’m web developer and I test your Game in Firefox, and I notice that, there were a few Firefox bugs with canvas implementation. For example: The Start button, Instructions and Highscore are displaced.
I want it to play in Firefox and I made some hacks for Firefox.To view these hacks follow this link:
http://my.opera.com/ilidiomartins/blog/2011/05/27/how-to-play-bounceball-on-firefox-4-javascript-hack-html5-game
Greetings