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Posted 26 August 2011 - 06:08 PM

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As we near the beta release of GameMaker HTML5, we wanted to start showing some of the things we've been trying with it! Welcome the YoYo Games EXPERIMENTAL site! On this page we've loaded up some demos and games we've been using to test out GameMaker HTML5.

Now, being an experimental site, you'll realise that not everything runs perfectly, but they do show the progress we're making. Most of these tests are of iOS games that we've simply "exported" using the new HTML5 exporter, meaning that very few of them will run well on mobile devices, however we have also put our GraveMaker test up here.



GraveMaker This was written to run well on tablets, specifically the iPad - even on iOS4.2, which is particularly slow for HTML5 content. Now you although you get the chance to play with it yourself, please remember this is a quick tech demo and test, so there are issues with it; in fact, it's FAR from perfect. But again, it does show what you can do with GameMaker HTML5, even in its current ALPHA state.

This site also shows you another important aspect of GameMaker HTML5. Because you can export your game using exactly the same source base, you can now easily make demos of your game to put on the web without having to recode everything from scratch! Simply remove some content (if you want to!) and export!

We hope to show some Facebook integration soon, but for now... go and enjoy the demos and games on show, and let your imagination run wild and think what you'll be able to do with your own web game!


HTTP://EXPERIMENTAL.YOYOGAMES.COM

#2 xshortguy

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Posted 26 August 2011 - 06:09 PM

Cool stuff.
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#3 Klassic

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Posted 26 August 2011 - 06:34 PM

Absolutely fantastic, I'm really liking how smooth everything is running on my laptop. It seems like the porting should be fairly straight forward, and opens up a lot of opportunities (Facebook, as you said). I'm highly anticipating the beta!

EDIT: I am still missing the music in the games, though. Sound effects work fine, just not the music itself.

Edited by Klassic, 26 August 2011 - 06:35 PM.

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#4 Rossay

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Posted 26 August 2011 - 06:34 PM

Wow. It runs really well & loads incredibly fast (literally less than 5 seconds per game). I found Karoshi a little glitchy, but the others ran fine. Really excited for the release of this :D

Edited by Rossay, 26 August 2011 - 06:35 PM.

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Posted 26 August 2011 - 06:39 PM

Indignant inflammatory comment? :unsure:
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Posted 26 August 2011 - 06:49 PM

Is there an ability to import GM v6/7/8 GMKs into GM HTML5?
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Posted 26 August 2011 - 06:54 PM

Not all the games are using the "latest" version of the Alpha, it simply takes too much time to re-build, test, and upload on every "fix" we make. So when we have a few, we'll go back over them and update then.

For example, Solitaire "remember" your last game using the built in INI file saving to HTML local storage. Karoshi and They Need to be Fed also save, but as they're using an older one, they're still bugged. Hay... that's why it's "experimental"!!! :)

Audio on the "Experimental" version of They Need To Be Fed should have music auto start though...

As to Karoshi being a little glitchy. This is because it's written the "normal" GameMaker way (and using precise collisions to boot!), but that's actually really slow. I'll be posting some articles on how to write a "fast" platformer that will run quick on ANY platform soon.

Is there an ability to import GM v6/7/8 GMKs into GM HTML5?

Don't know about GM6 and 7, but we've loaded 8.1 GMKs in. I think it'll load them all though, but we simply haven't tried really old ones.

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Posted 26 August 2011 - 08:21 PM

There is slight lag on my rig, and I noticed it requires Canvas support.
Furthermore, you should probably not disable right click functionality, and may want to add a type of right click menu to the actual runner to optimize speed/quality if possible (reminiscent to that of FLASH).

Edited by 2DLuis, 26 August 2011 - 08:22 PM.

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Posted 26 August 2011 - 09:01 PM

Okay I have played the six of them and they all work fairly well... But... GraveDigger and Maddening have a slight lag every few seconds, and Karoshi bugs out on level 5 (sounds continue and buttons seem to work but I can't actually SEE anything! Just the background...).
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Posted 26 August 2011 - 09:07 PM

Yeah... some issues with Firefox...I'll look into it tomorrow (after the F1!), and the same with Solitaire "options" screen.
GraveMaker should be fine though... What version of FF are you using?

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Posted 26 August 2011 - 09:11 PM

Version 6. Just updated yesterday actually... It's odd as it seems to run fine for a few seconds then there is a "jerk" in the motion and it runs fine again. Maddening does the same... Funnily enough, Solitaire didn't give me any trouble at all.
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Posted 26 August 2011 - 09:14 PM

Mr. Karoshi worked fine but when I tried Maddening it had no sound, and when I died or won a level I was met with a GOD AWFUL beep-type-noise I don't know, not really a beep but regardless it was freaking loud, like I was playing a screamer or something.

Final thoughts: I didn't like it very much. :thumbsup:

EDIT: I'm in Chrome.

Edited by makerofthegames, 26 August 2011 - 09:15 PM.

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Posted 26 August 2011 - 09:17 PM

All games played well on computer (IE 9).

Solitaire played slugish on iPad, Grave Maker played well on iPad. Looking forward to HTML5 improvement with iOS 5.
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Posted 26 August 2011 - 09:40 PM

Seems pretty nice :) . It was a little laggy on my tests (FF 6.0, Win7 Home Premium, dual-core, 4GB RAM), and it seems as though it has a high priority, since even when the game wasn't lagging too much, the rest of my computer was (I couldn't even adjust the volume because it lagged too much). Not good.

Otherwise, though, it's really cool :) .

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*EDIT* I was completely unable to play anything on my iPod Touch 2G (iOS 4.2.1). Whenever I'd go to any game's page, it would show a black rectangle, then freeze and crash Mobile Safari completely.

Edited by IceMetalPunk, 26 August 2011 - 09:48 PM.

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Posted 26 August 2011 - 09:47 PM

I did notice with Karoshi that clicking the Next button between 'story' screens when playing the first level in story mode didn't always work - almost seemed like I had to keep it pressed longer to make it work. Might have to do with trying to figure out if it is clicked "precisely" (in precise collision detection), but as a result it didn't register properly. Yet the button did highlight properly to the mouse-over event.

Using Google Chrome, v 13.something.
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Posted 26 August 2011 - 11:49 PM

Looks good.I've found some glitches on the GraveMaker but I understand that this is a Alpha version.


What it's a little bad it's the design(don't like the green and gray blend)....


In the end//CONGRATS YoYo for the effort to give more and more options...
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Posted 27 August 2011 - 12:41 AM

I'm not getting any lag. Almost everything seems perfect, but there is a bit of a depth bug, and some areas of the screen (the area outside the fence, for example in this picture) blur.
[Somewhat large picture]

EDIT: I guess the blur outside the fence is because it's scaled from a smaller image, but there is some blur around certain objects with different depths of those around them.

Edited by jimn346, 27 August 2011 - 12:43 AM.

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Posted 27 August 2011 - 06:43 AM

I couldn't get Mr. Karoshi to run in Opera(11.50), just got this error:
Syntax error at line 1048 while loading:
=ry.xy;kz.lz(ry.iz).new =0;if((global.nz
---------------------------^
expected identifier, got keyword 'new'


It ran well in Chrome, though.
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Posted 27 August 2011 - 08:36 AM

As we've said, these are all "test" cases, and each probably has "something" wrong with them; which is why they are on our experimental server. maddening does have "music" issues, and yes... that really maddening "ping" at the end IS right! It was called maddening for a reason! :tongue:

GraveMaker does have a few depth glitches, and a couple of HTML5 ones.

Karoshi has issues in FF6, and Opera(just tried here). I'll be looking at themtoday... after the F1! :whistle:

As to stuff lagging on iOS, as I said... Only GraveMaker was written to run on that.. on iOS 5, Solitaire is almost playable! Which is interesting. But as it was written for Native, it simply draws too much for such a large display. That can be fixed... but we need some spare time again, something we're short of at the moment!

Oh... And having to "hold" the NEXT button on Karoshi. Thats actually IN the game....Jesses choice :rolleyes:

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Posted 27 August 2011 - 08:55 AM

As to Karoshi being a little glitchy. This is because it's written the "normal" GameMaker way (and using precise collisions to boot!), but that's actually really slow. I'll be posting some articles on how to write a "fast" platformer that will run quick on ANY platform soon.


Thanks for replying. Out of curiousity, does that statement imply that the way you code games in GMHTML5 is significantly different from standard GM8.1? Can you just convert GM8.1 --> GMHTML5?

I'm genuinely so impressed at how fast the games loaded, especially the sound loading -- which is annoyingly slow on GM8.1 (unless you load it all externally).
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