Build an HTML5 game : a developer's guide with CSS and JavaScript / by Karl Bunyan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bunyan, Karl, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Video games--Programming.

Video games.

Web applications.

HTML (Document markup language).

JavaScript (Computer program language).

Cascading style sheets.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (220 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Other Title:

Build an Hyper Text Markup Language five game

Developer's guide with CSS and JavaScript

Developer's guide with Cascading Style Sheets and JavaScript

Place of Publication:

San Francisco, California : No Starch Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

A hands-on guide to web game development for programmers interested in building games using HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript.

Contents:

About the Author; Brief Contents ; Contents in Detail ; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Why Build HTML5 Games?; Using Skills You Already Have; Multi-environment Development; A Rapidly Improving Platform; About This Book; Who This Book Is For; Overview; Depth of Coverage; How to Use This Book; Part 1: Building a Game with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript; Chapter 1: Preparation and Setup ; How the Game Is Played; Building the Game; Development and Testing Environment; Web Browser Testing; Debugging in the Web Browser; Laying Out the Game Screen; Creating Panels with HTML and CSS

Code StructureAdding the First Scripts; The Modernizr and jQuery Libraries; Adding the Modernizr Library; Loading in Scripts with Modernizr; Modular JavaScript; User Interface and Display Scripts; Summary ; Further Practice; Chapter 2: Sprite Animation Using jQuery and CSS; Principles of CSS Sprites; Creating the Game Board ; Adding Sprites; Animation and the Bubble Class; Calculating Angle and Direction; Firing and Animating Bubbles; Summary; Further Practice; Chapter 3: Game Logic; Drawing the Game Board; Rendering the Level; The Bubble Queue; Detecting Collisions; Collision Geometry

Collision Detection LogicReacting to Collisions; Adding the Bubble to the Board; Locking the Bubble into the Grid; Summary; Further Practice; Chapter 4: Translating Game State Changes to the Display; Calculating Groups; Fetching Bubbles; Creating Matching Color Groups; Popping Bubbles; Removing Bubble Groups with JavaScript; Popping Animations with CSS; Orphaned Groups; Identifying Orphaned Bubbles; Dropping Orphaned Bubbles; Exploding Bubbles with a jQuery Plug-in; Summary; Further Practice; Part 2: Enhancements with HTML5 and the Canvas; Chapter 5: CSS Transitions and Transformations

Benefits of CSSBasic CSS Transitions; How to Write a Transition; Color-Changing Buttons; Basic CSS Transformations; How to Write a Transformation; Scaling a Button; CSS Transitions in Place of jQuery animate; Disadvantages of CSS Transitions; Summary; Further Practice; Chapter 6: Rendering Canvas Sprites; Detecting Canvas Support; Drawing to the Canvas; Image Rendering; Canvas Elements; Rotating a Canvas; Sprite Rendering; Defining and Maintaining States ; Preparing the State Machine; Implementing States; Sprite Sheets and the Canvas; The Canvas Renderer; Moving Sprites on the Canvas

Animating Canvas Sprite FramesSummary; Further Practice; Chapter 7: Levels, Sound, and More; Multiple Levels and High Scores; New Game State Variables; Display Level and Score; Ending Levels Efficiently; High Score Persistence with Web Storage; Web Storage vs. Cookies; Adding Data to Web Storage; Smoothing Animations with requestAnimationFrame; A New Perspective on Frame Updates; Code Compatibility with Polyfills; Adding Sound with HTML5 ; The HTML5 Audio API; Popping Bubbles: Complete with Sound; Summary; Further Practice; Chapter 8: Next Steps in HTML5; Saving and Retrieving Data; AJAX

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Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781457189876

1457189879

9781593276782

1593276788

OCLC:

907477322