Chapter 1, Introducing HTML5 Games, introduces the new features from HTML5, CSS3, and related JavaScript API. It also demonstrates what games we can make with these features and its benefits.

Chapter 2, Getting Started with DOM-based Game Development, kick-starts the game development journey by creating a traditional Ping Pong game in DOM and jQuery.

Chapter 3, Building Memory Matching Game in CSS3, walks through the new features from CSS3 and discusses how we can create a memory card matching game in DOM and CSS3.

Chapter 4, Building Untangle Game with Canvas and Drawing API, introduces a new way to draw games and interact with them in a web page with the new Canvas element. It also demonstrates how to build a puzzle solving game with Canvas.

Chapter 5, Building a Canvas Game Masterclass, extends the untangle game to show how we can draw gradients and images using Canvas. It also discusses sprite sheet animations and multi-layer management.

Chapter 6, Adding Sounds Effects to Your Games, adds sound effects and background music to the game by using the Audio element. It discusses the audio format capability among web browsers and creates a keyboard-driven music game by the end of the chapter.

Chapter 7, Using Local Storage to Store Game Data, extends the CSS3 memory matching game to demonstrate how we can use the new Local Storage API to store and resume game progress and best records.

Chapter 8, Building a Multiplayer Draw-and-Guess Game with WebSockets, discusses the new WebSockets API which allows browsers to establish a persistent connection with the socket server. This allows multiple players to play the game together in real time. A draw-and-guess game is created at the end of chapter.

Chapter 9, Building a Physics Car Game with Box2D and Canvas, teaches how to integrate a famous physics engine, Box2D, into our Canvas games. It discusses how to create physics bodies, apply force, connect them together, associate graphics with the physics, and finally create a platform card game.

You need the latest modern web browsers, a good text editor, and a basic HTML, CSS, and JavaScript knowledge.

This book is for game designers who have a basic understanding of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript and want to create Canvas or DOM-based games that run on browsers.

In this book, you will find several headings appearing frequently.

To give clear instructions of how to complete a procedure or task, we use:

Instructions often need some extra explanation so that they make sense, so they are followed with:

// starting game
var date = new Date();
audiogame.startingTime = date.getTime();
// some time later
var date = new Date();
var elapsedTime = (date.getTime() - audiogame.startingTime)/1000;

function setupLevelData()
{
var notes = audiogame.leveldata.split(";");
// store the total number of dots
audiogame.totalDotsCount = notes.length;
for(var i in notes)
{
var note = notes[i].split(",");
var time = parseFloat(note[0]);
var line = parseInt(note[1]);
var musicNote = new MusicNote(time,line);
audiogame.musicNotes.push(musicNote);
}
}

$ ./configure
$ sudo make install

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