New Top 5 HTML 5 Games in 2012

What is HTML 5 ?

HTML5 has become the face of the Open Web Platform.  It represents a single standard that can be applied across all computers and mobile devices. With HTML5, there is no need to download proprietary plugins such as Flash, which is constantly criticized for its bugs, errors, and security vulnerabilities. Instead of being forced to learn a separate programming language in order to create applications and games for a particular device, you can instead use a browser and HTML5. The end result is a larger pool of high quality games that can be played anywhere.

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1. Angry Birds

For those who’ve been living under a rock, Angry Birds is a physics-based game in which you fling particularly frustrated birds at buildings and pigs. The idea is to destroy as much of the buildings as possible while still killing all the nasty pigs. Originally an iOS game, the HTML5 port arrived last year as a promotion for the Chrome Web Store and the WebGL technology. The game uses WebGL for accelerated 2D graphics.

2.Pirates Love Daisies

Epic Tower Defense game. Chances are you will be right at home with the gameplay if you have ever played a game on the internet before. This is super addicting, I had to play and beat all 4 maps, and I am lucky there were only 4.
Built using the jQuery and EaselJS libraries… by a whole lot of people. Microsoft being one of them? I guess that they were technically the client, still a bit odd though.

3. Emberwind

Opera has recently been working on Emberwind, an experiment into porting an existing game into HTML5. In the game you control a stubby gnome watchman who sails through the clouds on an ancient snow owl, deploying your cane of justice in the battle against gremlins and other nasties. The game uses WebGL for accelerated 2D graphics.

4. Fieldrunners

Another recent iOS port is that of Fieldrunners, which unfortunately only runs in Chrome. Fieldrunners is a traditional tower defence game in which you strategically place emplacements to defend yourself from the incoming hordes. The game uses WebGL for accelerated 2D graphics.

5.Cut The Rope

Even if you see the .ie extension on their domain and makes you think about Internet Explorer, don’t worry, the game can be played on whatever modern browser you think of. The project is indeed sponsored by Internet Explorer, but it has nothing to do with it. Cut the Rope was developed by a Russian team of developers called ZeptoLab and it has rapidly become one of the most popular apps in the iTunes marketplace. In fact, Cut The Rope Game was purchased by over 3 million marketplace customers and their number is growing fast.