Since the release of HTML 5 there has been a lot of talk about all of the awesome new features that it has. One of the most interesting features to me was canvas and the integration of games into a webpage without any plugins needed. While I have seen basics such as movement and clicking, until now I have never actually seen a full fledged game that didn’t need any plugins installed that was running on HTML 5. I have just recently (Today) discovered a site that actually has a game engine built around HTML 5 and JavaScript. I found this site to be awesome! EffectGames.com has a variety of games that are being developed by the people at EffectGames and by people who are members of their site. If you are interested in HTML 5 you should definitely check out their site. They offer a wide variety of tools to make coding a game inside of the Effect Engine quite easy. I intend to definitely attempt to make a game using their engine once I learn more about coding.

To give you an example of just how awesome their game engine is, here is an example:

Mario SES Recreation (Beta)


As you can see this is definitely a game and it does not require any plugins whatsoever. It is instantly cross-platform and it works on most browsers (IE, Firefox, Chrome, Opera and Safari). You should totally check out their site. (Also a little sidenote, The game doesn’t work with Google reader so I don’t know if it will work with other rss feed sites/programs.) To see the game work go to the actual site please.)