Making isometric social real-time games with HTML5, CSS3, and Javascript / Mario Andres Pagella.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pagella, Mario Andrés.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Video games--Programming.

Video games.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (154 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

Beijing ; Sebastopol, California : O'Reilly, 2011.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Anyone familiar with Zynga's Farmville understands how fun and addictive real-time social games can be. This hands-on guide shows you how to design and build one of these games from start to finish, with nothing but open source tools. You'll learn how to render graphics, animate with sprites, add sound, validate scores to prevent cheating, and more, using detailed examples and code samples. By the end of the book, you'll complete a project called Tourist Resort that combines all of the techniques you've learned. You'll also learn how to integrate your game with Facebook. If you'r

Contents:

Table of Contents; Preface; The Rise of HTML5; What You Need to Know; Code Examples; Development and Debugging Tools; Notes on Game Design; Conventions Used in This Book; Using Code Examples; Safari® Books Online; How to Contact Us; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. Graphics Foundations: Canvas and Sprites; Working with the canvas Object; Creating Smooth Animations; Working with Sprites; What's at that Pixel?; Dealing with Transparency; Choosing a Rendering Method for Our Graphics; Chapter 2. Making It Isometric; Chapter 3. Interface Considerations; GUI Design and Interaction in Web Games

Implementing the GUIChapter 4. HTML5 Sound and Processing Optimization; Adding Sound with the Audio Element; Managing Computationally Expensive Work with the Web Workers API; Local Storage and Session Storage; Chapter 5. Connecting the Game to People; Cheat Prevention and Server-Side Operations; The Path to the Final Game; Polishing the Game; Adding a Social Networking Layer Using Facebook

Notes:

"Rendering simple 3D worlds with sprites and maps"--Cover.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 9, 2013).

ISBN:

9781449315238

1449315232

9781449315788

144931578X

OCLC:

775301773