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The Web Game Developer's Cookbook: Using JavaScript and HTML5 to Develop Games

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Want to start building great web games with HTML5 and JavaScript? Moving from Flash or other game platforms? Already building HTML5 games and want to get better and faster at it? This book brings together everything you need: expert guidance, sample projects, and working code!   Evan Burchard walks you step-by-step through quickly building 10 popular types of games. Each chapter implements a game within a well-understood genre; each introduces a different free, open source, and easy-to-use HTML5 game engine; and each is accompanied with full JavaScript source code listings.   Each game “recipe” uses tested and well-proven patterns that address the development challenges unique to that genre, and each shows how to use existing tools and engines to build complete substantial game projects in just hours. Need a quick JavaScript refresher? Evan Burchard provides that, too!   Coverage includes:   Mastering the full HTML5/JavaScript toolset: browser, text editor, terminal, JavaScript console, game engine, and more Accelerating development with external libraries and proven patterns Managing browser differences between IE, Firefox, and Chrome Creating interactive fiction “gamebooks” that leverage new CSS3 features Building party game experiences around the lightweight atom.js engine Developing puzzle games with the easel.js graphics rendering engine Writing platformers with melonJS and its integrated tilemap editor Coding intense 2-player fighting games for web browsers with game.js Building shooters with the DOM-based gameQuery renderer Creating convincing pseudo-3D first-person experiences for RPGs or racing games Engaging players with content that encourages exploration Building RTS games that incorporate server components   Turn to The Web Game Developer’s Cookbook for proven, expert answers - and the code you need to implement them. It’s all you need to jumpstart any web game project, and quickly create compelling games that sell!

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