An HTML5 game in the Mac App Store

Absolutely. I'm digging up all the ideas I had back when I was too young & stupid to do anything about them. Something like this gives me that extra bit of inspiration to stop thinking about it and do it.

In fact, one of my fav ideas (originally intended for the Amiga) fits so beautifully with the new device form factor that it actually causes me physical pain when I think about it.

In my first year of a programming certificate (1993?) I wrote several really bad games (in Pascal) that only my best friend and brother played.

The whole HTML5 game thing got me excited enough to try again and "Last Man Standing: A Zombie Apocalypse" was born.

Now, thanks to the power of the internet, a game that may have seen a couple of people play has had 20,000 hits, and sees, on the long tail, between 50 and 100 people a day (50% repeat visits).

That's not a lot of people, but it's a hell of a lot more than just my mate :) and I love the fact that there are people out there that like my game enough to come back to it :)

I'm going to be writing a tutorial on how to make a native Mac app with an embedded WebView pretty soon. Watch our blog for oupdates! :-)

From the links out (to the JS game kit): http://impactjs.com/documentation/impact-on-mobile-platforms

Which largely mirrors my testing (though my code was by no means highly optimised). It's jerky enough at present that I'm trying to pick up Lua and use something like Corona for game dev. At the rate things are going though, I'd say it'll be more than feasible within a couple of years (as in there's enough support out there to make it worthwhile).

It's not playable on my Nexus One. When a bunch of monsters are on the screen it gets down to ~10 FPS. So close!