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#1 mbabuskov

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Posted 27 February 2011 - 07:50 PM

Hello,

I'm creating a website where people can play various games. Most of the games are rather static and slow paced, but some might include stuff like running away from monsters in a maze. Some of the games might be graphics-heavy, so ability to preload images, or delay loading would be great. I'm very experienced with CSS and JavaScript, and know very little about Flash. It seems to me that Flash might be a better choice for this kind of website, but I'm not sure.

There is also an issue of mouse vs keyboard controller. I'd like to be able to support both, but it is not crucial.

Is there anyone here with experience with both DHTML and Flash to help me pick the right tool for this job?

Thanks.

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Posted 27 February 2011 - 07:56 PM

There are several pretty good HTML5/JS games these days - and there's a fair free frameworks out there (a quick search will turn up several). Keyboard control via JS is not a problem any more. It all depends on what you need, there might be things only really possible in Flash - and you might also want to take into account browser compatibility (nearly everyone has Flash, not everyone has Canvas support).