CycleBlob: A WebGL Lightcycle Game - HTML5 Games Most Wanted - page 173

teams to better their chances of winning. My version of the game takes place on a closed, 3D surface
instead of a flat, walled arena. After two months of full-time work (between jobs), I came up with CycleBlob
( http://cycleblob.co m ), a full, 3D lightcycle game that runs in the browser using WebGL.
What is WebGL?
WebGL (Web-based Graphics Library) is a port of the OpenGL ES API to the web browser. It allows
JavaScript code to directly display and manipulate 3D scenes on an HTML5 canvas embedded in a
web page.
Figure 8-1. Screenshots from CycleBlob: A WebGL Lightcycle game