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Pro Android Web Game Apps

Using HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript

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  • © 2012

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Authors:
  1. Juriy Bura
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  • Pro Android Web Game Apps is a hands-on guide to building web games, focused on Android devices.

  • You'll start with a blank HTML page, and by the end of the book, have the skills needed to create a multiplayer online game with rich graphics, sound, animation, and more.

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Getting Started

    • Juriy Bura
    Pages 1-39

  3. Graphics in the Browser: The Canvas Element

    • Juriy Bura
    Pages 41-88

  4. Creating the First Game

    • Juriy Bura
    Pages 89-121

  5. Animation and Sprites

    • Juriy Bura
    Pages 123-172

  6. Event Handling and User Input

    • Juriy Bura
    Pages 173-216

  7. Rendering Virtual Worlds

    • Juriy Bura
    Pages 217-253

  8. Making an Isometric Engine

    • Juriy Bura
    Pages 255-332

  9. 3D in a Browser

    • Juriy Bura
    Pages 333-356

  10. Using WebGL

    • Juriy Bura
    Pages 357-395

  11. Going Server-Side

    • Juriy Bura
    Pages 397-447

  12. Talking to the Server

    • Juriy Bura
    Pages 449-475

  13. Making Multiplayer Games

    • Juriy Bura
    Pages 477-511

  14. AI in Games

    • Juriy Bura
    Pages 513-540

  15. JavaScript Game Engines

    • Juriy Bura
    Pages 541-564

  16. Building Native Applications

    • Juriy Bura
    Pages 565-598

  17. Adding Sound

    • Juriy Bura
    Pages 599-614

  18. Back Matter

    Pages 615-644
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About this book

Dive into game development and create great multiplayer online games with Pro Android Web Game Apps. This hands-on guide covers both the theory and practice of browser game development for the Android platform. You'll use cutting-edge technologies to make game engines in your browser, establish real-time server communication, and create amazing gaming experiences with artificial intelligence and rich media.

Bring your knowledge of HTML and JavaScript to the next level with Pro Android Web Game Apps. You are guided through exciting projects that give you firsthand experience with core game app development concepts. You'll start with a blank HTML page, and by the end of the book, have the skills needed to  create a multiplayer online game with rich graphics, sound, animation, and more—even if you have no previous games development or server-side experience.  

    About the author

    Juriy Bura is a software engineer who lives in Kiev, Ukraine with his wife and daughter. Having more than seven years of experience in Java and JavaScript, he is sure that game development is the area with the most fun concentrated in a line of code. His passion for games development started at the age of 10, when he got his first PC. After few days, he asked: "Playing is fun, but how do I make my own game?" With that thought in mind and after never-ending programming experiments, he graduated from the cybernetics department of Kiev National University already being a part-time J2ME game developer. For the past three years, he has worked as an independent consultant, with his main area of expertise being rich web applications for both desktop and mobile platforms. Juriy spends his spare time with family or playing board games in a small geek club. When he's not lucky throwing the die, he takes his airsoft equipment and drives outside to play a first-person shooter with his buddies.

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