by Chris Bowen

Windows 8 Application Walk-Through: How to Build a Simple Game with HTML5 & JavaScript Part One

This blog post is the first of several designed to help walk you through, step-by-step, how to build a simple game in Windows 8 using JavaScript. This particular set of tutorials will use JavaScript, HTML5, WinJS, and some other resources (http://createjs.com/#!/CreateJS).

The game is based on the XNA sample game "Catapult Wars Lab". We’ll reuse the assets from that game as we develop a new version for Windows 8 that’s based on web technologies.

This game focuses on simplicity, so there are a number of intermediate techniques that aren't used in this sample.

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About the Author
Chris Bowen is a Developer Evangelist with Microsoft in the Boston area. He works with all things .NET, but has specialties in application architecture and building highly-scalable transactional web systems. A software architect and engineer with over 15 years of experience, Chris joined Microsoft after holding senior positions at Monster.com, VistaPrint, Staples, and IDX Systems. He is coauthor of "Professional Visual Studio 2005 Team System" from WROX and the upcoming "Essential Windows Communication Foundation" from Addison-Wesley. He holds an M.S. in Computer Science and a B.S. in Management Information Systems, both from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.