Startups Use HTML5 to Change the Way Games are Made

With the onslaught of app stores saturating the digital market, developers are discovering that they’ll have to become more creative about distributing their finished product across various platforms. Enter HTML 5. The new standard markup language for making websites--and a formidable replacement for Adobe’s Flash--is now being used by developers to create one piece of code that works seamlessly across multiple platforms, including iOS, Android, Facebook, and the web. One company in particular, gaming startup Goko, is using this technology to transport a popular board game into an environment where friends using different mobile devices, in different parts of the world, can all play one another.

This concept of developing content for one platform and extending it to others isn’t new. There are already software development kits (SDKs) that can perform this type of function, but not all are as ubiquitous as HTML5. Ted Griggs, CEO and Co-founder of Goko, calls HTML5 the

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