Build an HTML5 Game: A Developer's Guide With CSS and JavaScript

<p>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 <i>Build an HTML5 Game</i>, you'll use your skills to create a truly cross-platform bubble-shooter game - playable in both desktop and mobile browsers.</p><p>As you follow along with this in-depth, hands-on tutorial, you'll learn how to: </p><ul><li>Send sprites zooming around the screen with JavaScript animations</li><li>Make things explode with a jQuery plug-in</li><li>Use hitboxes and geometry to detect collisions</li><li>Implement game logic to display levels and respond to player input</li><li>Convey changes in game state with animation and sound</li><li>Add flair to a game interface with CSS transitions and transformations</li><li>Gain pixel-level control over your game display with the HTML canvas</li></ul>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.<p>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.</p>

• Build an HTML5 Game: A Developer's Guide with CSS and JavaScript, (Paperback)
• Author: No Starch Press
• ISBN: 9781593275754
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2015-03-23
• Page Count: 224