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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

Integrating with Facebook


In many ways, integration with Facebook resembles integration with Twitter. Facebook offers, however, much more game orientation. In our case, we will implement achievements for logged-in users. We will use Facebook's PHP SDK, but other languages are supported too.

As for Twitter, we need to first register our application in Facebook. To do this, log in to Facebook's developer website (https://developers.facebook.com/) and click on Apps in the header:

Then, click on Create New Apps and fill in the required information. You will then be prompted with your newly created application page. Here, you'll have to note the two values shown in the following screenshot (just as we did for Twitter):

If you look at the red arrow in the preceding screenshot, you'll notice that you can choose how your app and Facebook will interact. To have full access to Facebook's Open Graph API that allows you, amongst other things, to publish achievements, you need to select App on Facebook...