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HTML5 games have viewable source code. Is there a way to make them like swf files? Yeah, use Flash and translate your code to ActionScript. …

You could user JSON to store your objects, that's the easiest way to serialize objects in Javascript that I know of. Then for your picking, a for loop with a bounding box or sphere test does the tric …

Nope, you're not missing anything. This has to be a string, containing a valid CSS color value. To reassure you, you're not the first one wondering why so much hate.

If you've not gone too far on the rendering side yet, one simple solution would be to use an actual 3D renderer. This way you don't have to reinvent the wheel and implement the parallax yourself, you …

Web browsers disable some Javascript features for security reasons. My bet is that you just hit Google Chrome forbidding XMLHttpRequest on local files by default (see this answer on SO for how to dis …

Game Maker HTML5 is supposed to have an "Internal code editor with user definable syntax colouring". So if you're able to write some Javascript on the client side, you can use socket.io. …

You should probably cache your player move in an array, and step through it frame after frame. Let's say you store your Bresenham result in an array called path, you'll need an additional variable to …

Their are indeed differences between these at runtime. In OOP terms, this is directly an instantiated object, or if you prefer this is a singleton. If you want more instances of those you'll have to …

For a small 2D game, there nothing inherently wrong with this approach. Rendering is indeed costly, but looping over objects shouldn't be an issue (except if you really have tons of them, then look fo …

Of course you've got line segments instead of arcs, but drawing arcs in an HTML5 canvas kills performance, so I wouldn't recommend it. Just subdivide your sphere until the result looks OK. …