Build an HTML5 Game: A Developer's Guide with CSS and JavaScript - Softcover

Bunyan, Karl

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1593275757 ISBN 13: 9781593275754

Publisher: No Starch Press, 2015

Synopsis

If you already have even basic familiarity with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, you're ready to learn how to build a browser-based game. In Build an HTML5 Game, you'll use your skills to create a truly cross-platform bubble-shooter game - playable in both desktop and mobile browsers.

As you follow along with this in-depth, hands-on tutorial, you'll learn how to:

• Send sprites zooming around the screen with JavaScript animations
• Make things explode with a jQuery plug-in
• Use hitboxes and geometry to detect collisions
• Implement game logic to display levels and respond to player input
• Convey changes in game state with animation and sound
• Add flair to a game interface with CSS transitions and transformations
• Gain pixel-level control over your game display with the HTML canvas

The programming starts right away in Chapter—no hemming and hawing, history, or throat clearing. Exercises at the end of each chapter challenge you to dig in to the bubble shooter's code and modify the game.

Go ahead. Take the plunge. Learn to create a complete HTML5 game right now and then use your newfound skills to build your own mega-popular, addictive game.

About this title

About the Author

Karl Bunyan is a game developer who worked at Game Show Network on its Facebook gaming platform. He has spoken at conferences like the HTML5 Developer Conference and the London HTML5 Game Developers group, as well as at Facebook Garage events in London. He is the creator of Wedu Games, where he currently builds games for web and mobile.

Edition details

• Publisher: No Starch Press
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1593275757
• ISBN 13: 9781593275754
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224