Pro Android Web Game Apps: Using HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript

✍ Scribed by Juriy Bura (auth.)

• Publisher: Apress
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 656
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Getting Started....Pages 1-39
Graphics in the Browser: The Canvas Element....Pages 41-88
Creating the First Game....Pages 89-121
Animation and Sprites....Pages 123-172
Event Handling and User Input....Pages 173-216
Rendering Virtual Worlds....Pages 217-253
Making an Isometric Engine....Pages 255-332
3D in a Browser....Pages 333-356
Using WebGL....Pages 357-395
Going Server-Side....Pages 397-447
Talking to the Server....Pages 449-475
Making Multiplayer Games....Pages 477-511
AI in Games....Pages 513-540
JavaScript Game Engines....Pages 541-564
Building Native Applications....Pages 565-598
Adding Sound....Pages 599-614
Back Matter....Pages 615-644

✦ Subjects

Computer Science, general