Is it that time already? Yes and this week we have some great web sites for both game and web developers:

HTML5.org
HTML 5 is the platform to build websites on. Many developers however still haven't finished implementing their HTML 4 knowledge yet. Some features are beginning to get cycled out, and so it's time to brush up on your knowledge with this simple web site.

The Daily Click
The Daily Click is a user driven web site for game developers that use the Clickteam range of "Game Making Products". With no programming knowledge you can create some pretty cool games, just as this community has. The Daily Click also contains articles and tutorials to get you started using the clickteam products.

Although this is not really new, I've stumbled upon a great compiler that I was surprised to find was so powerful, and yet not very well known. Well let it be known to all of you -- GLBasic promises to give you a BASIC programming environment that can not only truly capture your imagination's will, but provide you with inline C functionality and compatibility with all the systems that matter!

The software is commercial ($79.90, depending on functionality requirements), however a demo version awaits your use and I really recommend you check it out (at the link in this news article).

I would like to also mention that GLBasic is now a category here, and so if you have source, tutorials or completed projects developed in GLBasic; add-er-up!

indiePub has announced another competition for independent game developers! The final date for submission is July 31st, 2010 and so you have got time! What is the grand prize? Not much, just a measily


I'm sure you can see why they deserve your attention. Games developed for this competition are also in the running for their various not-a-hundred-thousand-dollars prizes. Visit the link within this news article to visit their site, and read more information. And to those who enter; good luck (and don't forget my tip).

In what seemed like a desperate attempt to cut costs, Microsoft has announced that Internet Explorer and thus Microsoft's HTML 5 support will not be released on Windows XP. Considering the fact that Windows XP continued to sell well through their Vista era (inviting a re-release of XP) only one year ago, it seems as though Microsoft is all but abandoning the Windows XP customer base (many of which are still considered somewhat new customers).

Those around the software development industry are generating a buzz for the switch to alternate browsers. Some of the top developers from companies like Google, Yahoo! like Doug Crockford (senior JS dev at Yahoo!) are telling users to make the switch -- and when the developers tell you to make the switch, you make the switch just as we learned with the birth of each other version of HTML (or suffer through laggy, bug filled, incompatible web browsing).

Make sure you let those that use Internet Explorer on the Windows XP operating system know; you're not in kansas anymore.