Rick Battagline has been working with browser-based technologies since 1994 and wrote his first computer game in 1996. In 2006, he founded BattleLine Games LLC.; an independent game studio focused on web games, where he works to this day. That same year his game Epoch Star was nominated for an award at the Slamdance Guerilla Games Competition, held alongside the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. Game Informer Magazine issue 156 listed Epoch Star in the article “The top ten games you’ve never heard of.” Since then, Rick has written hundreds of games for platforms including Web, Windows PC, iOS, Android, Wii U, and Nintendo Entertainment System emulators. He has developed games in web technologies including WebAssembly, HTML5, WebGL, JavaScript, TypeScript, ActionScript, and PHP. His first book Hands-on Game Development with WebAssembly, was published in 2019 by Packt Publishing.
