Blog: How to Start Making Games for HTML5

2024-09-20

You might be new to game development or even don't have any prior programming experience. Rest assured: this is not a problem! Today, it has never been so easy to start programming video games from the comfort of your home computer.

Usually, to make games for HTML5 (for the web), you would need to learn JavaScript. JavaScript is a relatively easy language to learn and it is compatible across a wide range of devices and browsers. However, a big drawback of JavaScript is that it's not necessarily geared towards programming games per say, so you usually need to use a game framework to speed up your game development, like Phaser.

Another drawback of JavaScript is that it has many moving parts and it keeps on evolving as new features in browsers are introduced; it often means that there are multiple ways of doing the same thing, and none is necessary better than the other. This ends up causing searching for the best solution to a problem… a problem in itself; there's just too many way to do things, like too many choices in a Chinese buffet!

A last problem with JavaScript is that once you have developed a game, you also need to figure out a way to publish it. You can add it to a website, but again, you need to figure out how to embed your content so that it works across all the browsers without giving up on important features like compatibility, loading time, availability, error catching and so on.

Okay, so what is the solution then, if you don't want to go through all this? The most likely solution is to use a game engine. A game engine provides everything you need to write, compile and publish your games. You can then focus on what matters the most: your game (and not on the container).

In that sense, we would recommend that you try our service: D2Soft Engine. Our game engine has you covered for your humble beginnings at game making. Here are some features:

• an easy-to-learn scripting language similar to BASIC;
• great documentation with samples and tutorials to get your started;
• instantly publish and share your games online;
• built-in assets integration for images, sounds, music, fonts, voices and more;
• a lightweight HTML5 player that runs on any browsers for mobile, pc and other devices.

Curious to know more? Check out these tutorials:


You can also have a look at this video to write your first program using 8 lines of code.



Visit our Get Started page. Good luck on your journey to start making your first games in HTML5!