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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


The game we've created here is by far the most complex we've written in this book so far. It could of course be enhanced a lot by adding PvP combat, a chat system, and so on, but this chapter has covered all the basics to allow you to implement those!

However, calling a bunch of files asynchronously is not a very elegant solution, and if you target very recent browsers, you may want to take a look at the WebSocket API that allows you to establish and maintain a bi-directional communication channel between the browser and the server.

Another way to maintain a permanent connection to the server is by using long polling methods.

In the next chapter, we will modify our platformer to integrate with Facebook and Twitter as well as keep a list of high scores!