Few HTML5 demos with animation and sound

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Some clever HTML5 demos with animation and sound

Neat, but the title should be "A few...". "Few" and "a few" mean different things -- not many, and a small number of, respectively.

And just for completeness, "the few" and "the Few" are additional and different too.

English is sometimes way more complex than it seems.

The animation is achieved via colour cycling, right?

Absolutely correct. They have a blog post about it where they discuss the tech behind this briefly (with source code).

http://www.effectgames.com/effect/article.psp.html/joe/Old_S...

(I seem to remember this being submitted to HN a few months ago, before they added sound).

I would love to see an HTML5 adventure game built with these scenes and animations. Similar to Leisure Suit Larry, Space Quest, King's Quest and so on.

Not entirely what you mean, but have you seen sarien.net?

I have seen it before, but I didn't know it's available on the iPad now. Wow, now I have another reason to get an iPad.

I don't know enough about the technology to understand why I should be impressed, but the 8bit art is superb. Someone really knows how to pick a pixel.

The tech is nice, but the art is incredible. Click the "Show Options" button and you will see the 8-bit palette animating in the lower right. The changes in the palette are the only thing causing the animation of the image. Instead of a series of images, there is just a single image and a function to modify the palette each frame. The artist picked pixels that not only look good, but also are coordinated with the palette and their neighbors to produce the animation.

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