As I started working on our next game, I noticed a very strange and unpleasant behaviour: when scrolling the viewport, the animation was stuttering. Here's how I fixed it.

The first impression that this behaviour gave me was that my computer wasn't powerful enough to run the game, but having …

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Concluding our series about local multiplayer via WiFi, we are going to address the Android bug that prevents local hostname resolution, and we will see the aspects to consider when using directly IP addresses instead of host names.

At first, using the device IP address instead of its host name …

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Last time we have seen that a great solution for implementing local multiplayer on WiFi networks is to use Zeroconf and WebSockets. In this article we will see how to use these technologies, and some implications that are not obvious at first.

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Continuing our journey of local multiplayer technologies, in this article we will see what are the considerations to make in order to implement local multiplayer on WiFi networks.

While now both Bluetooth and Multipeer Connectivity are viable options for implementing local multiplayer games, they both have a common disadvantage: You …

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In a previous article, we have seen that using the accelerometer for input in games is harder than it seems.

In this article we will explore other ways of using the accelerometer, with the experience gained from releasing Dawn Of Ultra Pong.

First of all I would like to thank …

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As you may remember, one of the downsides of the Multipeer Connectivity was that there was no Cordova implementation available. Well, not anymore.

Today I just released cordova-plugin-networking-multipeer, which allows you to connect multiple iOS devices regardless of network availabiltiy, and send and receive data between them, all from a …

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The accelerometer can be a good input method for some genres, think for example of racing games.

Using it is easy, it's just a matter of mapping a value to a direction, right? Well, let's find out.

Before starting, notice that although in this article I'm talking about HTML5, the …

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In this last part of this series, we will see a couple more technologies that can be used to implement local multiplayer on mobile devices.

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Our next game will feature local multiplayer, and in this blog post series I will talk about the technologies that can be used to implement such feature, their platform support, and their implementation in Cordova.

Let's start by saying that by local multiplayer I don't mean two people playing on …

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