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jQuery Game Development Essentials

By : Selim Arsever
Book Image

jQuery Game Development Essentials

By: Selim Arsever

Overview of this book

jQuery is a leading multi-browser JavaScript library that developers across the world utilize on a daily basis to help simplify client-side scripting. Using the friendly and powerful jQuery to create games based on DOM manipulations and CSS transforms allows you to target a vast array of browsers and devices without having to worry about individual peculiarities."jQuery Game Development Essentials" will teach you how to use the environment, language, and framework that you're familiar with in an entirely new way so that you can create beautiful and addictive games. With concrete examples and detailed technical explanations you will learn how to apply game development techniques in a highly practical context.This essential reference explains classic game development techniques like sprite animations, tile-maps, collision detection, and parallax scrolling in a context specific to jQuery. In addition, there is coverage of advanced topics specific to creating games with the popular JavaScript library, such as integration with social networks alongside multiplayer and mobile support. jQuery Game Development Essentials will take you on a journey that will utilize your existing skills as a web developer so that you can create fantastic, addictive games that run right in the browser.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
jQuery Game Development Essentials
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Summary


We now have a game that completely implements the specification that we defined at the beginning of the chapter. The code is not yet optimized and that will be the subject of our next chapter, but to make a game that is nice to play it would really need more polish. You could add a high-score system, integration with social networks, and sound and touch device compatibility.

We will cover those topics and more in the future chapters. However, there are a lot of things you can do with what you have already learned now to make the game better: you may want to add an animation for when the player dies, a nicer GUI, nicer graphics, the ability to jump back, and more than one level. It's these small things that will make your game stand out and you should really invest a big part of your time to give this professional finish to your game!