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Learn HTML5 by Creating Fun Games

By : Rodrigo Silveira
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Learn HTML5 by Creating Fun Games

By: Rodrigo Silveira

Overview of this book

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.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Summary


In this chapter we took a few extra steps into the fascinating world of 2D rendering using the long-awaited canvas API. We took advantage of the canvas' ability to export images to make our game more engaging, and potentially more social. We also made the game more engaging and social by adding a persistence layer on top of the game, whereby we were able to save a player's high score.

Two other new powerful features of HTML5, web messaging and IndexedDB, were explored in this chapter, although there were no uses for these features in this version of the game. The web messaging API provides a mechanism for two or more windows to communicate directly through message passing. The exciting bit is that these windows (or HTML contexts) do not need to be in the same domain. Although this could sound like a security issue, there are several systems in place to ensure that cross-document and cross-domain messaging is secure and efficient.

The web storage interface brings with it three distinct...