HTML5 Game Development for Dummies

Name: HTML5 Game Development for Dummies
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ISBN: 9781118074763

ISBN-10: 1118074769

ISBN-13: 9781118074763

Edition: 2012

Authors: Andy Harris

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Create games with graphics that pop for the web and mobile devices!HTML5 is the tool game developers and designers have been eagerly awaiting. It simplifies the job of creating graphically rich, interactive games for the Internet and mobile devices, and this easy–to–use guide simplifies the learning curve. Illustrated in full color, the book takes you step by step through the basics of HTML5 and how to use it to build interactive games with 2D graphics, video, database capability, and plenty of action. Learn to create sports and adventure games, pong games, board games, and more, for both mobile devices and the standard web.Learn to use the new HTML5 technology that makes it easier to…

Book details

List price: $35.99
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Canada, Limited
Publication date: 4/22/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 7.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.254
Language: English



Introduction


About This Book


What You Will Need


How to Read This Book


How This Book Is Organized



Building the Foundation



Basic Game Development



Diving Deeper



The Part of Tens


We Even Use the Internet Thingy!


Icons Used in This Book


Where to Go from Here



Building the Foundation



Playing on the Web


Building the Framework


Setting Up Your Workshop


Web browsers


A programmer's editor


Graphics tools


Audio tools


Building Your First Game


Building a Basic Page


Dressing up the page


Providing a link


Beautifying the page


Making a style reusable


Building the next node


Adding a sound effect


Add another page for a victory


Making it your own



Talking to the User


Making an Interactive Form


Adding JavaScript to Your Page


Creating the custom greeting


Making the magic happen


A program where everyone knows your name


Modifying the page itself


Adding style to your forms


Do it with style


Creating a style for the form


Outsourcing your JavaScript code


Building the Word Story Game


Designing the game


Building the HTML foundation


Adding the CSS style


Writing the code



Coding Like a Pro


Working with Variables


You're just my type: Handling different data types


Using a computer program to do bad math


Managing data types correctly


Making Choices with if


Changing the greeting with if


The different flavors of if


Conditional operators


Managing Repetition with for loops


Setting up the web page


Initializing the output


Creating the basic for loop


Introducing shortcut operators


Counting backward


Counting by fives


Building While Loops


Making a basic while loop


Getting your loops to behave


Managing more complex loops


Managing, bugs with a debugger


Sending Data to and from Functions


Returning a value from a function


Sending arguments to a function


Using Arrays to Simplify Data


Building the arrays


Stepping through the books array


Using the for … in loop to access array elements



Random Thoughts: Building a Simple Game


Creating Random Numbers


Seriously, math can be fun


Making the HTML form


Writing the roll() function


Building the Number Guesser


Designing the program


Building the HTML for the game


Writing the CSS for the number guesser


Thinking through the game's data


Setting up the initialization routine


Responding to the Button



Basic Game Development



Introducing simpleGame.js


Using a Game Engine


Essential game engine features


Gaming on the web


Building an Animation with simpleGame.js


Building your page


Initializing your game


Updating the animation


Starting from a template


Considering Objects


Making instance pudding


Adding methods to the madness


Bringing Your Game


Checking the keyboard


Moving the sprite


Baby, you can drive my car



Creating Game Elements


Building Your Own Sprite Objects


Making a stock sprite object


Building your own sprite


Using your new critter


Adding a property to your critter


Adding methods to classes


Sound Programming Principles


Game Programming's Greatest Hits!


Setting up bounding rectangle collisions


Distance-based collisions


It's All About Timing



Getting to a Game


Building a Real Game


Planning Your Game


Programming On the Fly


There seems to be a bug in this program


Fly, fly! fly!


Clearly, We Need an Amphibian


Making a frog


Adding a background


Managing updates


Combining the Frog and the Fly


Building a library of reusable objects


When Sprites Collide


Collisions apply to the frog and the fly


Resetting the fly - on the fly


Working with Multiple Flies


Adding the Final Touches


Adding the timer


Resetting the game



Diving Deeper



Motion and Animation


Physics - Even More Fun Than You Remember


Newton without all the figs


Phuzzy physics


Lost in Space


Becoming a space cadet


Building the space simulation


Don't Be a Drag - Adding Drag Effects


Drag racing


Implementing drag


Do You Catch My Drift?


Burning virtual rubber


Adding drift to your sprites


Recognizing the Gravity of the Situation


Adding rockets to your ride


Use the force (vector), Luke


Houston, We've Achieved Orbit


Round and round she goes


Decoding the alphabet soup


This isn't rocket science


Writing the orbit code


Does This Car Come with a Missile Launcher?


Projectiles in a nutshell


It's time to launch the missiles


Building a Multi-State Animation



Going Mobile


Using HTML5 as a Mobile Language


Don't you need a special language?


HTML5 is a great compromise


So what else do you need?


Putting Your Game on a Server


Using a control panel


Uploading a page with a control panel


Using an FTP client


Making Your Game App-Ready


Managing the screen size


Making your game look like an app


Removing the Safari toolbar


Storing your game offline


Managing Alternate Input


Adding buttons


Responding to the mouse


Reading the Virtual Joystick


Controlling an object with the virtual joystick


Driving with joy(sticks)


Using virtual arrow keys


Tilting at windmills with the accelerometer


Reading the tilt


Calibrating the accelerometer



Documenting simpleGame


Overview of simpleGame


The Scene Object


Primary properties of the Scene object


Important methods of the Scene class


The Sprite Class


Main properties of the sprite


Appearance methods of the Sprite


Movement methods of the sprite


Boundary methods of the sprite


Collision methods of the sprite


Animation methods of the sprite


Utility Classes


The Sound object


The Timer object


The virtual joystick


The virtual accelerometer


The game button


Keyboard array


Making the Game Engine Your Own



The Part of Tens



Ten Great Game Asset Resources


Dia Diagramming Tool


GIMP - A Powerful Image Editor


Ari's SpriteLib


Reiner's Tilesets


OpenGameArt


Blender


Audacity - Useful for Sound Effects


Freesound.org


SoundJay.com


BFXR Incredible Eight-Bit Sound Effects


InkScape



Ten Concepts Behind simpleGame


Using the Canvas Tag


Looking at a canvas


Basic canvas drawing


Creating an Animation Loop


Angles in the Outfield


Transformations in Canvas


Coordinates inside coordinates


Transforming an image


Vector Projection


Examining the problem


Building a triangle


Would you like sides with that?


Solving for dx and dy


Converting components back to vectors


Using the Sound Object


Reading the Keyboard


Managing basic keyboard input


Responding to multiple key presses


Managing the Touch Interface


Handling touch data and events


Collision Detection


Enabling bounding-box collisions


Calculating the distance between sprites


Boundary Checking



Ten Game Starters


Lunar Lander


The eagle has landed


Producing a text console


Enhancing the game


Mail Pilot


Building an "endless" background


Improving the top-down racer


The Marble-Rolling Game


Managing dual input


Building an array of obstacles


Improving the marble game


Whack-a-Mole


Building a mole in a hole game


Other features of the mole game


Improving the mole game


Jump and Run on Platforms


Jumping and landing


Coming in for a landing


Making draggable blocks


Improving the platform game


Pong - the Granddaddy of Them All


Building the player paddle


Adding artificial stupidity


Building a ball to bounce off boundaries


Putting some spin on the ball


Improving the Pong game


I'm a Fighter, Not a Lover - RPGs


Building the base Character class


One does not simply build an ore


We need a hero


Improving the role-playing game


Tanks - and You're Welcome!


Tanks, turrets, and shells


Building a bullet


Improving the tank game


Miles and Miles of Tiles and Tiles


Creating a Tile object


Building a map from tiles


Updating the tiles


Loading a tile map


Improving the tile world


Tic-Tac-Toe Is the Way to Go


Creating the board


Setting up the visual layout


Checking for a winning combination


Adding an AI


Improving the tic-tac-toe game


Index