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pacomerh
Cool game, but loved the music track.
geuis
Same here. I played the game for 5 minutes, got bored and moved on to other things. However, I left the tab open just to hear the music.
p0nce
The songs will loop so here is more music by kaneel: http://www.mynameiskaneel.com
igravious
Can't find the exact track, is it created especially for the game?
p0nce
The game tracks are unreleased material and were not created for the game, can be found on http://soundcloud.com/kaneel
kaneel
Actually, you can listen to track 1 and 2 (rame à l'envers and les maux oubliés) and only download track 2. Track 1 and track 3 will be a part of an upcoming album later in 2011 if I ever manage to kick my butt to get things done for good.

Thank you guys a lot for showing interest into my music :)

pacomerh
Thx man. It would be great if we could work on a track or something for 2011, I have a few tracks here http://planktonman.com
kaneel
hey why not? It will depend on how it could work together though, me and some friends often tried to work together but it's a pretty tough work. I suggest you get my contact email on my website and just drop an email :)
igravious
Anybody idea if this is composed for the game or where it's from? I thought the game was but I really dig that funkiness :)
kaneel
pOnce replied about it :) It's not been composed for the game, it's more or less tracks I had on my HDs and pOnce wanted for the game.
Sephr
It should explain how to shoot red balls, which is done by pushing the directional key opposite to the direction you are moving.
ernestipark
Does anyone else find the title of "HTML5" game to be misleading or confusing? Back when HTML5 was first starting to gain a bit of traction, I didn't understand how games were possible until I realized it was just HTML5 basically allowing Javascript to do more. Not a big deal, but I find/found it confusing at first.
armandososa
I think it makes sense if it uses <canvas> and <audio> which are bot HTML5 elements.
ernestipark
True, but this whole HTML5 vs. Flash war going on seems to me more like JS+HTML5 vs Flash.
ajl2011
p0nce is doing some nice work here,

I don't understand the whole flash hate fest angle .. I can understand why folks dislike flash when it comes to media or badly designed webpages .. but when it comes to game development ( see kongregate for example) it's really a awesome and mature platform that has a lot of support all around.. personally I don't care what multinational coportation X thinks about multinational coportation Ys development platform or their pissing matches

underwater
Those have to be some of the most confusing controls I've ever used. A shoot button which changes depending on direction of travel.
pedrokost
The game reminds me of Kurves, and is also similar to the racing game in the Tron movie. Maybe the inspiration comes from Tron?

Anyways, the Kurves game (http://flashkurve.com/) has a similar concept, it is maybe less complex, but much more addictive.

On a gameplay side, I prefer the Kurves game. It is a bit slower, also is heavy multiplayer, but is more addictive and fun to play.

On a technical side, they are both nice. The Kurves game is made in Flash and works as expected, and the HTML5 game is also awesome from the technical side. I may be wrong, but I think that it is still quite easier to develop in Flash than JS.

JS+HTML5 seems to be ready to _compete_ with flash also on basic games. I wonder whether we will see some games with OpenGL compete with the 3D Flash games (or Shockwave).

pedrokost
EDIT: Probably using just 2 keys to turn and one to shoot could be better than using 4 keys. The keyboard gets very clustered when playing with many folks.
p0nce
That's why the 4 keys are next to each other. You can play with one hand.