Karl Bunyan

Build an HTML5 Game

A Developer's Guide with CSS and JavaScript

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 1 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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: No Starch Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. September 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 179mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 445g
• ISBN-13: 9781593275754
• ISBN-10: 1593275757
• Artikelnr.: 41370560

Autorenporträt

Karl Bunyan's first adventure game was published in 1990 on the ZX Spectrum, and he's been developing games ever since. Bunyan created HTML5 prototypes for the Game Show Network's Facebook gaming platform, and he is currently the owner of Wedu Games, an independent firm that builds web and mobile games.