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Angry Birds Attacks Web … Web Wins
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Angry Birds, currently one of the most popular games for iOS, Android and other platforms has made the leap to the web. Rovio, the company behind the game, has unveiled a web-based version of Angry Birds at Google’s I/O conference in San Francisco.
You can install the new Angry Birds for the web as an app in Google’s Chrome browser, or just play from the URL, chrome.angrybirds.com, which works just fine in any modern web browser. Just don’t hit that link if you’re planning to get any work done today.
Behind the scenes, the web incarnation of Angry Birds is powered primarily by HTML5. However, if you happen to have ditched Flash, you’ll notice that Angry Birds on the web won’t work.
What’s interesting is that the offending code appears to use gwt-voices, a cross-browser audio shim from Google. In theory gwt-voice only falls back to Flash when needed, but using the Aurora release of Firefox brings up a “You need to install Flash Player” message for Angry Birds (most likely because Firefox does not ship with mp3 support).
Calling Angry Birds an HTML5 app, is, in that regard, somewhat of a stretch.
Still, the primary rendering and logic of the game does use HTML5 elements like canvas, and HTML5 APIs like localStorage. The latter is interesting because it makes Angry Birds on the web hackable.
As per Rovio’s releases on other platforms, Angry Birds for the web offers in-app purchases for additional playing levels. But because Angry Birds uses the localStorage API, a clever dose of JavaScript will, at the time of writing, unlock the extra levels sans payment.
Welcome to the web, Angry Birds, where everything is hackable.
See Also:
- Play Pac-Man in HTML5
- Conway’s Game of Life in HTML5
- Play Asteroids in HTML5
- How to Use HTML5’s Local Storage Tools Today
Thu, 12 May 2011 15:19:24 GMT
Tags: HTML5, Multimedia, Web Apps,
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