Learning HTML5 by Creating Fun Games

Learning HTML5 by Creating Fun Games

by Rodrigo Silveira
Learning HTML5 by Creating Fun Games

Learning HTML5 by Creating Fun Games

by Rodrigo Silveira

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Overview

HTML is fast, secure, responsive, interactive, and stunningly beautiful. It lets you target the largest number of devices and browsers with the least amount of effort. Working with the latest technologies is always fun and with a rapidly growing mobile market, it is a new and exciting place to be."Learn HTML5 by Creating Fun Games" takes you through the journey of learning HTML5 right from setting up the environment to creating fully-functional games. It will help you explore the basics while you work through the whole book with the completion of each game."Learn HTML5 by Creating Fun Games" takes a very friendly approach to teaching fun, silly games for the purpose of giving you a thorough grounding in HTML5. The book has only as much theory as it has to, often in tip boxes, with most of the information explaining how to create HTML5 canvas games. You will be assisted with lots of simple steps with screenshots building towards silly but addictive games.The book introduces you to HTML5 by helping you understand the setup and the underlying environment. As you start building your first game that is a typography game, you understand the significance of elements used in game development such as input types, web forms, and so on.We will see how to write a modern browser-compatible code while creating a basic Jelly Wobbling Game. Each game introduces you to an advanced topic such as vector graphics, native audio manipulation, and dragging-and-dropping. In the later section of the book, you will see yourself developing the famous snake game using requestAnimationFrame along with the canvas API, and enhancing it further with web messaging, web storage, and local storage. The last game of this book, a 2D Space shooter game, will then help you understand mobile design considerations.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781849696036
Publisher: Packt Publishing
Publication date: 06/25/2013
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 374
File size: 5 MB

About the Author

Rodrigo Formigone Silveira is a web engineer at Deseret Digital Media. His responsibilities include backend system development, tools, and maintenance, frontend application development and design, and more recently he's been involved in the mobile development of various products on the Android platform.He received his Bachelor's of Science in Computer Science from Brigham Young University, Idaho, as well as an Associate's Degree in Business Management from LDS Business College in Salt Lake City, Utah.His fascination for web development began in his early teenage years, and his skills grew as he discovered the power of a library subscription, a curious and willing mind, and supportive parents and friends. Today Rodrigo balances his time between the three great passions of his life - his family, software development, and video games (with the last two usually being mingled together).
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