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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

Coding the game


We now have all the tools we need to start our game. For this game, we will use the wonderful artworks by Kenney Vleugels (http://www.kenney.nl). It will be a classical platformer where the player can move around and jump.

There will be two kinds of enemies, a sort of blob and a flying insect. For the sake of simplicity, the player is immortal and kills the enemies as soon as it touches them. We will describe here each part of the game in the following order:

  • Basic setup of the game screen

  • Object-oriented code for the player

  • Player control

  • Parallax scrolling

  • Enemies