Games development is notoriously difficult. With that in mind, spare a thought for the folks taking part in this year’s Js13kGames competition, which sees them create a JavaScript game while ...

With HTML5, CSS and JavaScript, you can build some pretty nice little games — and without a significant up-front investment. If you’re comfortable with just these technologies, you’re pretty ...

Decorators is a JavaScript proposal to annotate and modify classes and properties at design time. Additionally, Eich lauded WebGL, which provides a 3D rendering standard for Web development.

Game Builder has a co-op mode, so multiple people can build a game together at once. You can also share your creations and browse through the games made by others.

Or is it? Disguised as a game itself, Game Builder offers an interactive way to create interesting games without having to get too detailed into programming.

Honestly, JavaScript is a bit harder than the old BASIC, but it is also way more practical in the modern world. If you really want BASIC, though, you can do that on the Web, too.

Imran Nazar is building a Game Boy emulator out of JavaScript to show how far the language has come, particularly with the fancy new stuff HTML5's <canvas> tag allows for, and to see if it would ...