Pro HTML5 Games: Learn to Build your Own Games using HTML5 and JavaScript

✍ Scribed by Aditya Ravi Shankar (auth.)

• Publisher: Apress
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 432
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Build your next game on a bigger scale with Pro HTML5 Games. This essential book teaches you to master advanced game programming in HTML5. You’ll learn techniques that you can transfer to any area of HTML5 game development to make your own professional HTML5 games.

Led by an expert game programmer, you’ll build two complete games in HTML5: a strategy puzzle game based on the Box2d physics engine and in the style of Angry Birds and a real-time strategy (RTS) game complete with units, buildings, path-finding, artificial intelligence, and multiplayer support.

This new and fully updated second edition now includes chapters on mobile game development and an essential game developer's toolkit. Understand how to develop complex, bolder games and become an HTML5 games pro using Pro HTML5 Games today.

What You'll Learn

• Create realistic physics in your game by incorporating the Box2d physics engine
• Design large worlds with lots of characters and let users interact with them
• Use sprite sheets, panning, parallax scrolling, and sound effects to build a more polished game
• Incorporate pathfinding and steering to help characters navigate through your world
• Create challenging levels with intelligent enemies by using decision trees, state machines, and scripted events
• Add multiplayer in your games using Node.js and the WebSocket API

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xv
HTML5 and JavaScript Essentials (Aditya Ravi Shankar)....Pages 1-20
Creating a Basic Game World (Aditya Ravi Shankar)....Pages 21-45
Physics Engine Basics (Aditya Ravi Shankar)....Pages 47-72
Integrating the Physics Engine (Aditya Ravi Shankar)....Pages 73-113
Creating a Mobile Game (Aditya Ravi Shankar)....Pages 115-136
Creating the RTS Game World (Aditya Ravi Shankar)....Pages 137-165
Adding Entities to Our World (Aditya Ravi Shankar)....Pages 167-209
Intelligent Unit Movement (Aditya Ravi Shankar)....Pages 211-241
Adding More Game Elements (Aditya Ravi Shankar)....Pages 243-282
Adding Weapons and Combat (Aditya Ravi Shankar)....Pages 283-317
Wrapping Up the Single-Player Campaign (Aditya Ravi Shankar)....Pages 319-352
Multiplayer with WebSockets (Aditya Ravi Shankar)....Pages 353-380
Multiplayer Gameplay (Aditya Ravi Shankar)....Pages 381-407
Essential Game Developer Toolkit (Aditya Ravi Shankar)....Pages 409-420
Back Matter ....Pages 421-426

✦ Subjects

Game Development