Making Sprite-based Games with Canvas

Re:Making Sprite-based Games with Canvas by tomjen3 on Tuesday March 19, 2013 @03:02PM (#5402879)

Canvas doesn't have any kind of support for playing music, but there is a (flash) based sound manager that works everywhere and Chrome has some facility for playing sound too.

However making music is an art not all programmers have mastered, so most would likely skip that step.

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Re:Making Sprite-based Games with Canvas by city41 on Tuesday March 19, 2013 @06:12PM (#5403954)

All modern browsers support the HTML5 audio tag.

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Re:Making Sprite-based Games with Canvas by tomjen3 on Wednesday March 20, 2013 @01:42PM (#5408863)

Yeah but that isn't really good enough to play sounds in (for a game).

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Re:Making Sprite-based Games with Canvas by city41 on Friday March 22, 2013 @01:46PM (#5424403)

I disagree, it's not the best, but it's decent enough for most games. Most HTML5 game engines use the audio tag. My game uses a good amount of sound effects and background music just fine with the audio tag: http://cityfortyone-mattgreer.dotcloud.com/dragonPlunder/

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