Microsoft is really changing my view of them. I find myself loving the time & effort they're putting into developer resources. I guess the sleeping giant wasnt sleeping after all
Microsoft has always had great developer resources for their proprietary platforms. Whats changing is they are being forced to embrace open standards/platforms due to market realities.
I feel the same. Here in Boston, they have an awesome facility called New England Research & Development (NERD) where they often host and sponsor lots of tech and startup meetups. They seem to be very active in the Boston startup scene.
Also interesting that some of the tutorials are showing Linux screenshots. E.g. http://buildnewgames.com/taming-the-svg-beast/ shows the graphics being developed in Inkscape on Ubuntu.
That's probably because this site isn't strictly run by MS, it's run by another company and "brought to you with support from Internet Explorer". Microsoft's had a big focus on this kind of cross-browser support recently, though. With some of the games made for IE9, they also made sure they worked properly in Chrome, Firefox, etc.
Also, some of the articles mention things that don't work in IE but do work elsewhere (like the ammo.js physics library). I am quite impressed that Microsoft is sponsoring this.
I don't think "It's really good" is appropriate for this title. It's pretty cool, but its no more than a site with some javascript examples. It's not really good if you are trying to learn about game development as no links are like "START HERE" or "Tutorial" its more of a reference for people that already make games.
this site seems like a bandaid for the IE problem drawing attention to what IE can do rather than what it cannot.
Looks reasonable. IE 10 could be better, but you know, it's great that we'll soon be seeing lots of Windows 8 computers with support for these web standards.
I didn't notice this until I looked at the source of the site, but the background is a game. Use your arrows keys to fly around, space to shoot some asteroids.
Where's the money in HTML5 games? it's fun to play with but I have yet to see anyone make any money from making html5 games. Anyone have counter examples?
s/HTML5/Flash, a decade and a bit ago. The market for them will mature, but at the moment not many people are making much money from it, since it's new tech.
I love the whole premise of Metro. I've noticed more and more sites are starting to adopt the simple flat colours, non-rounded corners look like Metro promotes which as a web developer pleases me so much. I think type based layouts with flat colours are super effective and visually pleasing.
