HTML5 is the development buzzword of the moment. It's the 'ajax ninja' of the last few years, so naturally it comes with its fair share of skepticism. Indeed, many have been writing about its seemingly never-ending spec, inconsistent implementations by browser makers, and even its inferiority to native apps. All are valid arguments against betting a real business on HTML5.
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Apple on Wednesday (December 2) announced the annual list of the top apps and games of 2020 on the App Store. Due to the Covid-19, 2020 was a bizarre and most forgettable year of the decade. R/macgaming: The home for gaming on Mac machines! Here you will find resources, information, and a great community of gamers. On your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, open the App Store app. Browse or search for the app that you want to download. If you find a game that says Arcade, subscribe to Apple Arcade to play the game. Tap or click the price or Get button. If you see the 'Open' button instead of a price or Get button, you already bought or downloaded that app. Mac App Store is the simplest way to find and download apps for your Mac. To download apps from the Mac App Store, you need a Mac with OS X 10.6.6 or later.
However, here's a hard example of why you absolutely should consider serious development in HTML5. In December of last year, we launched our little pure-HTML5 game Onslaught! Arena in the Google Chrome Webstore. Sales could be better, sure, but we also just launched the exact same game in the Mac App Store. The code is identical with negligible development time required to port it over to a completely different platform.
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Think about the business case for that. Normally it would take considerable resources to port a game to such a different platform. We know our game isn't exactly a AAA title, but if programmed from the ground up in Objective-C, our best guess is it would take a few months to develop. That's time that we can now spend on content updates or even a sequel.
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How was it done? We just embedded a WebView in a native Cocoa app using Xcode. Is it inferior? Not noticeably so. On my MacBook Pro, the Chrome Web Store version ranges from about 50-250 FPS (frames per second) depending on how many monsters are on the screen. On the same computer, the Mac App Store version ranges from 30-100 FPS. (You can see this for yourself: type 'lddebug' while in-game to see debug information.) And despite nasty HTML5 audio issues, sound plays great in both versions.
Surprisingly, the Chrome version runs faster than the native Mac version. While Safari and Chrome are both using WebKit as their rendering engines, Chrome is likely faster because V8 has wicked speed and its canvas rendering is hardware-accelerated.
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Either way, it runs great on both platforms and required almost no dedicated development time to port. If you're a developer, you should find this exciting. We certainly do!
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Since you made it this far, you might like to read 'Our first week in the Chrome Webstore: the numbers' if you're into graphs and sales numbers (and who isn't!). If you'd like to learn more about our HTML5 development, including a tutorial on how to embed a WebView into a native Mac app, follow us on Twitter; we'll be writing about that soon.