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HTML5 Game Development with ImpactJS

By : Davy Cielen, Arno Meysman
Book Image

HTML5 Game Development with ImpactJS

By: Davy Cielen, Arno Meysman

Overview of this book

<p>ImpactJS is a JavaScript library specially geared towards building 2-dimensional games. It is intuitive and versatile and allows the game developer to get results in no time while keeping an easy overview when games grow more complex. Games built with ImpactJS can be published on websites and even as an app on both Android and iOS. <br /><br />With "HTML5 Game Development with ImpactJS", building games for the Web and app markets has never been so easy. Using the ImpactJS JavaScript engine, you only need this book and basic knowledge of JavaScript in order to build and publish your own game. <br /><br />"HTML5 Game Development with ImpactJS" allows a single person to build a full game. Using only basic knowledge of JavaScript and this book, you will end up publishing a 2D game for the entire world to enjoy. You will learn to set up a working environment and gather all the necessary tools and resources your game needs. Develop both a top-down and a side scroller game, integrate physics such as gravity, and deploy your game as an app or to your website.</p>
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
HTML5 Game Development with ImpactJS
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Making money with game apps


If you built your game into an app, you have several distribution channels you can turn to, such as Firefox marketplace, the IntelAppUp center, Windows Phone Store, Amazon Appstore, SlideMe, Mobango, Getjar, and Apple Appsfire. But the most popular players on the market currently are Google Play and the iOS App Store . The iOS App Store is not to be confused with the Mac app store. iPad and Mac have two different operating systems, iOS and Mac OS, so they have separate stores. Games can be released both in the iOS and the Mac store. There could also be some confusion between Google Play and Chrome Web Store . Google Play contains all the apps available for smartphones that have Google's Android operating system. The Chrome Web Store lets you add apps to your Google Chrome browser. So there are quite a few distribution channels to pick from and here we will have a quick look at Google Play, the iOS App store, and the Chrome Web Store.

Google Play

Google Play is...