There is great news for mobile game developers.Cocos2d open source game development community announced the next generation game development kit for cross platform web based development. They have released “Cocos2d-html5 alpha” which is the another gem in the cocos2d family tree as the “Grand child of Cocos2d-iPhone”. This achievement transform the mobile based game development in next level.This next generation cocos-2d game development kit is basically used the power of HTML5 and Javascript with its native API and two popular physics engines Box2D ,chipmunk respectively.It is licensed under MIT , so you are free to use for your commercial game development. It can be run in any HTML 5 supported browser. HTML 5 is supported by offline storage, so Cocos2d-html5 games also supported offline storage.

This Cocos2d-html5 alpha release API are same as Cocos2d-X. In the next release higher level API wrappers are coming which will be familiar to the Web based javascript programmers also. This higher level API of next release will be compatible with “Javascript Binding for Cocos2d-iPhone and Cocos2d-X” , which turns the cocos2d to next generation cross platform game development. This next generation coding style based on the Cocos2d-html5 sdk will be just plug and play for both Cocos2d-iPhone and Cocos2d-X framework with almost native performance off the iPhone .

This Cocos2d-html5 alpha release use the HTML 5 Canvas 2d for rendering. It supports almost all features of 2D framework and 2.5D isometric framework , except some features that relies on 3d perspective (namely CCCamera). This even supported real time color tinting that will considered impossible for HTML Canvas 2d mode. There are features like Parallax background , Tile-map, Actions, Ease, Frame animation, Schedule , Labels , Keyboard Dispatcher , Scene Transition coming with this release.

So , this alpha release of Cocos2d-html5 offer many exciting features for developers which turn iPhone game development and other mobile game development into next level. As this is only alpha release there may be some bugs are found at the time of development, Please report this in the Cocos2d-html5 forum.