Microsoft has announced the launch of Pirates Love Daisies, an HTML5 Tower Defense Game, developed by Grant Skinner, the world-famous Flash guru, and his team.
Grant Skinner, the leader of the team that built the game, has reported his experience on his blog. He shared some interesting thought about the shift of paradigm for an experienced Flash developer approaching HTML5. He has also described some of the unexpected, but pleasant, surprises and challenges he faced during the development phase
Grant described Internet Explorer 9 as “smoking fast.” It’s the only browser that can provide the experience you would expect as a game player. Grant designed a lot of little details (lightning flashes, thunder claps, rolling sea waves, flying birds, drifting clouds, etc) that improve user experience.
He has reported the results in the table below:
For a full read visit MSDN Blogs.
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