HTML5 Game Development for dummies

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HTML5 Game Development for dummies

Author:

Harris, Andrew, 1964-

ISBN:

9781118074763

Publication Information:

Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley ; Chichester : John Wiley [distributor], 2012.

Physical Description:

xiv, 370 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Series:

--For dummies.

Contents:

Introduction -- Building the foundation -- Basic game development -- Diving deeper -- The part of tens.

Subject Term:

HTML (Document markup language)

Video games -- Programming

Summary:

Harris has written the book he wishes he'd had when he started creating games for his own enjoyment. Whether you're new to programming or a skilled programmer eager to cash in on today's game bonanza, this guide helps you build powerful games that also work on mobile devices.

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Create games with graphics that pop for the web and mobile devices!

HTML5 is the tool game developers and designers have been eagerly awaiting. It simplifies the job of creating graphically rich, interactive games for the Internet and mobile devices, and this easy-to-use guide simplifies the learning curve. Illustrated in full color, the book takes you step by step through the basics of HTML5 and how to use it to build interactive games with 2D graphics, video, database capability, and plenty of action. Learn to create sports and adventure games, pong games, board games, and more, for both mobile devices and the standard web.

Learn to use the new HTML5 technology that makes it easier to create games with lots of action, colorful 2D graphics, and interactivity--for both the web and mobile devices Test and debug your games before deploying them Take advantage of how HTML5 allows for SQL-like data storage, which is especially valuable if you're not well versed in database management Explore creating games suitable for community activity and powerful, profitable games that require large amounts of data

Whether you want to build games as a fun hobby or hope to launch a new career, this full-color guide covers everything you need to know to make the most of HTML5 for game design.

Author Notes

Andy Harris taught himself programming because it was fun. He's a full-time computer science instructor at Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis (IUPUI), where his courses include web development and game programming, and he's the bestselling author of HTML, XHTML CSS All-in-One For Dummies.

Introduction	p. 1
About This Book	p. 2
What You Will Need	p. 2
How to Read This Book	p. 3
How This Book Is Organized	p. 4
Part I Building the Foundation	p. 4
Part II Basic Game Development	p. 4
Part III Diving Deeper	p. 5
Part IV The Part of Tens	p. 5
We Even Use the Internet Thingy!	p. 5
Icons Used in This Book	p. 6
Where to Go from Here	p. 6
Part I Building the Foundation	p. 7
Chapter 1 Playing on the Web	p. 9
Building the Framework	p. 10
Setting Up Your Workshop	p. 11
Web browsers	p. 11
A programmer's editor	p. 12
Graphics tools	p. 13
Audio tools	p. 14
Building Your First Game	p. 14
Building a Basic Page	p. 15
Dressing up the page	p. 19
Providing a link	p. 21
Beautifying the page	p. 23
Making a style reusable	p. 26
Building the next node	p. 28
Adding a sound effect	p. 30
Add another page for a victory	p. 33
Making it your own	p. 34
Chapter 2 Talking to the User	p. 35
Making an Interactive Form	p. 36
Adding JavaScript to Your Page	p. 37
Creating the custom greeting	p. 40
Making the magic happen	p. 42
A program where everyone knows your name	p. 44
Modifying the page itself	p. 48
Adding style to your forms	p. 49
Do it with style	p. 51
Creating a style for the form	p. 52
Outsourcing your JavaScript code	p. 53
Building the Word Story Game	p. 55
Designing the game	p. 56
Building the HTML foundation	p. 57
Adding the CSS style	p. 59
Writing the code	p. 60
Chapter 3 Coding Like a Pro	p. 63
Working with Variables	p. 64
You're just my type: Handling different data types	p. 64
Using a computer program to do bad math	p. 65
Managing data types correctly	p. 66
Making Choices with if	p. 68
Changing the greeting with if	p. 69
The different flavors of if	p. 71
Conditional operators	p. 71
Managing Repetition with for loops	p. 72
Setting up the web page	p. 73
Initializing the output	p. 74
Creating the basic for loop	p. 75
Introducing shortcut operators	p. 76
Counting backward	p. 77
Counting by fives	p. 78
Building While Loops	p. 79
Making a basic while loop	p. 79
Getting your loops to behave	p. 81
Managing more complex loops	p. 82
Managing, bugs with a debugger	p. 83
Sending Data to and from Functions	p. 86
Returning a value from a function	p. 88
Sending arguments to a function	p. 89
Using Arrays to Simplify Data	p. 90
Building the arrays	p. 91
Stepping through the books array	p. 93
Using the for ... in loop to access array elements	p. 94
Chapter 4 Random Thoughts: Building a Simple Game	p. 95
Creating Random Numbers	p. 95
Seriously, math can be fun	p. 98
Making the HTML form	p. 99
Writing the roll() function	p. 100
Building the Number Guesser	p. 100
Designing the program	p. 101
Building the HTML for the game	p. 102
Writing the CSS for the number guesser	p. 104
Thinking through the game's data	p. 106
Setting up the initialization routine	p. 107
Responding to the Button	p. 108
Part II Basic Game Development	p. 111
Chapter 5 Introducing simpleGame.js	p. 113
Using a Game Engine	p. 113
Essential game engine features	p. 114
Gaming on the web	p. 114
Building an Animation with simpleGame.js	p. 115
Building your page	p. 117
Initializing your game	p. 118
Updating the animation	p. 119
Starting from a template	p. 120
Considering Objects	p. 122
Making instance pudding	p. 122
Adding methods to the madness	p. 123
Bringing Your Game	p. 124
Checking the keyboard	p. 126
Moving the sprite	p. 127
Baby, you can drive my car	p. 130
Chapter 6 Creating Game Elements	p. 133
Building Your Own Sprite Objects	p. 133
Making a stock sprite object	p. 134
Building your own sprite	p. 134
Using your new critter	p. 136
Adding a property to your critter	p. 137
Adding methods to classes	p. 139
Sound Programming Principles	p. 141
Game Programming's Greatest Hits!	p. 144
Setting up bounding rectangle collisions	p. 144
Distance-based collisions	p. 147
It's All About Timing	p. 150
Chapter 7 Getting to a Game	p. 153
Building a Real Game	p. 153
Planning Your Game	p. 154
Programming On the Fly	p. 156
There seems to be a bug in this program	p. 158
Fly, fly! fly!	p. 159
Clearly, We Need an Amphibian	p. 159
Making a frog	p. 161
Adding a background	p. 162
Managing updates	p. 163
Combining the Frog and the Fly	p. 164
Building a library of reusable objects	p. 164
When Sprites Collide	p. 167
Collisions apply to the frog and the fly	p. 168
Resetting the fly - on the fly	p. 169
Working with Multiple Flies	p. 170
Adding the Final Touches	p. 174
Adding the timer	p. 177
Resetting the game	p. 178
Part III Diving Deeper	p. 179
Chapter 8 Motion and Animation	p. 181
Physics - Even More Fun Than You Remember	p. 181
Newton without all the figs	p. 182
Phuzzy physics	p. 183
Lost in Space	p. 183
Becoming a space cadet	p. 184
Building the space simulation	p. 185
Don't Be a Drag - Adding Drag Effects	p. 186
Drag racing	p. 186
Implementing drag	p. 188
Do You Catch My Drift?	p. 190
Burning virtual rubber	p. 190
Adding drift to your sprites	p. 192
Recognizing the Gravity of the Situation	p. 193
Adding rockets to your ride	p. 193
Use the force (vector), Luke	p. 195
Houston, We've Achieved Orbit	p. 196
Round and round she goes	p. 197
Decoding the alphabet soup	p. 198
This isn't rocket science	p. 199
Writing the orbit code	p. 199
Does This Car Come with a Missile Launcher?	p. 202
Projectiles in a nutshell	p. 203
It's time to launch the missiles	p. 203
Building a Multi-State Animation	p. 206
Chapter 9 Going Mobile	p. 211
Using HTML5 as a Mobile Language	p. 211
Don't you need a special language?	p. 211
HTML5 is a great compromise	p. 212
So what else do you need?	p. 213
Putting Your Game on a Server	p. 213
Using a control panel	p. 214
Uploading a page with a control panel	p. 216
Using an FTP client	p. 218
Making Your Game App-Ready	p. 220
Managing the screen size	p. 220
Making your game look like an app	p. 221
Removing the Safari toolbar	p. 223
Storing your game offline	p. 224
Managing Alternate Input	p. 225
Adding buttons	p. 225
Responding to the mouse	p. 228
Reading the Virtual Joystick	p. 231
Controlling an object with the virtual joystick	p. 234
Driving with joy(sticks)	p. 236
Using virtual arrow keys	p. 239
Tilting at windmills with the accelerometer	p. 240
Reading the tilt	p. 241
Calibrating the accelerometer	p. 243
Chapter 10 Documenting simpleGame	p. 247
Overview of simpleGame	p. 247
The Scene Object	p. 248
Primary properties of the Scene object	p. 248
Important methods of the Scene class	p. 249
The Sprite Class	p. 250
Main properties of the sprite	p. 251
Appearance methods of the Sprite	p. 251
Movement methods of the sprite	p. 252
Boundary methods of the sprite	p. 254
Collision methods of the sprite	p. 255
Animation methods of the sprite	p. 255
Utility Classes	p. 256
The Sound object	p. 256
The Timer object	p. 257
The virtual joystick	p. 258
The virtual accelerometer	p. 258
The game button	p. 259
Keyboard array	p. 260
Making the Game Engine Your Own	p. 260
Part IV The Part of Tens	p. 261
Chapter 11 Ten Great Game Asset Resources	p. 263
Dia Diagramming Tool	p. 263
GIMP - A Powerful Image Editor	p. 264
Ari's SpriteLib	p. 266
Reiner's Tilesets	p. 267
OpenGameArt	p. 268
Blender	p. 269
Audacity - Useful for Sound Effects	p. 270
Freesound.org	p. 271
SoundJay.com	p. 271
BFXR Incredible Eight-Bit Sound Effects	p. 272
InkScape	p. 273
Chapter 12 Ten Concepts Behind simpleGame	p. 275
Using the Canvas Tag	p. 276
Looking at a canvas	p. 276
Basic canvas drawing	p. 277
Creating an Animation Loop	p. 278
Angles in the Outfield	p. 280
Transformations in Canvas	p. 281
Coordinates inside coordinates	p. 281
Transforming an image	p. 282
Vector Projection	p. 285
Examining the problem	p. 286
Building a triangle	p. 287
Would you like sides with that?	p. 287
Solving for dx and dy	p. 288
Converting components back to vectors	p. 289
Using the Sound Object	p. 290
Reading the Keyboard	p. 291
Managing basic keyboard input	p. 293
Responding to multiple key presses	p. 293
Managing the Touch Interface	p. 294
Handling touch data and events	p. 297
Collision Detection	p. 298
Enabling bounding-box collisions	p. 298
Calculating the distance between sprites	p. 300
Boundary Checking	p. 301
Chapter 13 Ten Game Starters	p. 305
Lunar Lander	p. 306
The eagle has landed	p. 307
Producing a text console	p. 308
Enhancing the game	p. 309
Mail Pilot	p. 309
Building an "endless" background	p. 310
Improving the top-down racer	p. 312
The Marble-Rolling Game	p. 312
Managing dual input	p. 312
Building an array of obstacles	p. 314
Improving the marble game	p. 315
Whack-a-Mole	p. 316
Building a mole in a hole game	p. 316
Other features of the mole game	p. 318
Improving the mole game	p. 319
Jump and Run on Platforms	p. 320
Jumping and landing	p. 321
Coming in for a landing	p. 321
Making draggable blocks	p. 322
Improving the platform game	p. 323
Pong - the Granddaddy of Them All	p. 323
Building the player paddle	p. 324
Adding artificial stupidity	p. 324
Building a ball to bounce off boundaries	p. 325
Putting some spin on the ball	p. 326
Improving the Pong game	p. 327
I'm a Fighter, Not a Lover - RPGs	p. 328
Building the base Character class	p. 329
One does not simply build an ore	p. 331
We need a hero	p. 331
Improving the role-playing game	p. 333
Tanks - and You're Welcome!	p. 333
Tanks, turrets, and shells	p. 334
Building a bullet	p. 337
Improving the tank game	p. 338
Miles and Miles of Tiles and Tiles	p. 339
Creating a Tile object	p. 341
Building a map from tiles	p. 343
Updating the tiles	p. 344
Loading a tile map	p. 344
Improving the tile world	p. 345
Tic-Tac-Toe Is the Way to Go	p. 346
Creating the board	p. 347
Setting up the visual layout	p. 349
Checking for a winning combination	p. 350
Adding an AI	p. 351
Improving the tic-tac-toe game	p. 352
Index	p. 353

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