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Life & fun · October 15, 2013

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The Pond - My platform-agnostic HTML5 game

Zolmeister - Blog - by Zoli Kahan

The Pond - My platform-agnostic HTML5 game launched on October 15, 2013 with 14 votes, #94 of 565 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 13 years on.

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The Pond is a platform-agnostic HTML5 game developed by Zoli Kahan. Built using web technologies, it was created with development tools including LightTable, a JavaScript IDE with real-time code injection capabilities, and CocoonJS for mobile deployment. The game demonstrates how modern development environments can streamline game creation by reducing friction in the development workflow, particularly for browser-based games that would traditionally require frequent page reloads.

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Before I go into some of the highlights of The Pond in code, I would like to give credit to both LightTable and CocoonJS for making the experience so enjoyable and awesome. LightTable is a javascript IDE which started out as a concept video, and turned into a successful Kickstarter . The most amazing feature of LightTable is it's code injection - as you edit javascript, you can update the javascript interpreted by V8 in the browser in real-time ( video ), which is an extremely powerful tool when developing a game where dealing with full page reloads can be cumbersome. CocoonJS is a mobile platform for deploying HTML5 canvas games to mobile. It has implemented the javascript canvas in OpenGL…from zolmeister.com

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