Grand Theft Auto Classic WebGL

Before you get too overly excited by the title, no this isn’t a full recreation of the 1997 DMA classic. Instead it’s a WebGL tech demo put together by Niklas von Hertzen as an experiment, to test out the creation and performance of large static environments. It works by loading in the original GTA map …

“JavaScript Developer”

It is impossible to hire real JavaScript developers as 90% of applicants come in and only know jQuery. They have no clue what an event handler is, how to navigate the DOM or create a simple XHR call without the library. — Christian Heilmann And that’s exactly why I do teach my students the bare …

Photoshop Google Maps Tile Cutter Script (Google Maps Tile Generator)

UPDATE SEPTEMBER 2013: PS_Bramus.GoogleMapsTileCutter has been updated and now includes a nice UI dialog. A video of the new version in action can be viewed on YouTube. The download link below links to the latest version, so no worries there. Last week, I coded a Google Maps Tile Cutter script for use with Adobe Photoshop. …

BrowserQuest

BrowserQuest is a tribute to classic video-games with a multiplayer twist. You play as a young warrior driven by the thrill of adventure. No princess to save here, just a dangerous world filled with treasures to discover. And it’s all done in glorious HTML5 and JavaScript. BrowserQuest → Background Info → BrowserQuest Source (GitHub) →