MultiTap Studios is an independant interactive multimedia company based out of Ottawa, ON, specializing in mobile gaming. MultiTap Studios utilizes the power of...
HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript, which allows us to create fun and compelling...
As you may have noticed we have decided to fully embrace advanced web technologies as our preferred way of doing mobile development. This means we will be using things like HTML5, advanced JavaScript, and CSS3 to produce cross platform games. This may leave some of you wondering why would we do that, or what the hell are you even talking about.
In this, the first of our tutorials, I want to try to quickly explain the HTML5 canvas element to those who may not be familiar with it. More precisely I want to explain how to draw things to the canvas. There are a lot of sites out there that explain the syntax for doing this so what I am going to try to do is actually explain how it works.