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Foundation Game Design with HTML5 and JavaScript

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  • © 2012

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  1. Rex Spuy
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  • Foundation Game Design with HTML5 and Java.

  • Script teaches you all the skills you need to know to start making your own video games for the web and mobile devices.

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvi
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  2. Learning HTML and CSS

    • Rex van der Spuy
    Pages 1-57

  3. Learning JavaScript

    • Rex van der Spuy
    Pages 59-110

  4. Your First Games

    • Rex van der Spuy
    Pages 111-177

  5. Creating a Game World

    • Rex van der Spuy
    Pages 179-241

  6. Making Maps

    • Rex van der Spuy
    Pages 243-295

  7. Game Objects and Animation

    • Rex van der Spuy
    Pages 297-372

  8. Game Sprites

    • Rex van der Spuy
    Pages 373-442

  9. Bumping into Things

    • Rex van der Spuy
    Pages 443-486

  10. Making Video Games

    • Rex van der Spuy
    Pages 487-531

  11. Maze Games

    • Rex van der Spuy
    Pages 533-600

  12. Platform Games and Physics

    • Rex van der Spuy
    Pages 601-670

  13. Touch and the Mouse

    • Rex van der Spuy
    Pages 671-720

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 721-732
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About this book

Foundation Game Design with HTML5 and JavaScript teaches you everything you need to know about how to make video games. If you’ve never done any programming before and don’t know where to start, this book will show you how to make games from start to finish. You’ll learn all the latest programming technologies (HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript) to create your games. All written in a fun and friendly style with open-ended projects that encourage you to build your own original games.

Foundation Game Design with HTML5 and JavaScript starts by showing you how you can use basic programing to create logic games, adventure games, and create interactive game graphics. Design a game character, learn to control it with the keyboard, mouse, or touch screen interface, and then learn how to use collision detection to build an interactive game world. You’ll learn to make maze games, platform jumping games, and fast paced action games that cover all the popular genres of 2D gaming. Create intelligent enemies, use realistic physics, sound effects and music, and learn how to animate game characters. Whether you're creating games for the web or mobile devices, everything you need to get started on a career as a game designer is right here.

  • Focused and friendly introduction to making games with HTML5.
  • Essential programming and graphic design techniques for building games, with each chapter gently building on the skills of preceding chapters.
  • Detailed case studies demonstrating techniques that can be used for making games in a wide variety of genres.

About the author

Rex van der Spuy is a video game designer and writer. He s written Foundation Game Design with Flash, Advanced Game Design with Flash and Foundation Game Design with AS3.0. Rex has designed games and done interactive interface programming Agency Interactive (Dallas), Scottish Power (Edinburgh), DC Interact (London), Draught Associates (London), and the Bank of Montreal (Canada). He also builds game engines and interactive interfaces for museum installations for PixelProject (Cape Town). In addition, he created and taught advanced courses in game design for the Canadian School of India (Bangalore, India). When not writing about games, making them, or playing them, he amuses himself by building experimental, autonomous, self-aware, multi-cellular parallel universes out of shoe boxes, scotch tape, spare milk bottle caps and bits of string . He claims, that this is a lot more entertaining than you might think, but we re skeptical.

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