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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 our game with the springboard


There is a very elegant way to make your game run in fullscreen mode on iOS. With the proper configuration, we can make your game installable on the springboard. This will have several effects: the game will run without any browser UI element, and it will have an icon and a splash screen.

All this is done through setting a series of meta tags in the document header.

Making your game installable

To make your game installable you have to use the apple-mobile-web-app-capable meta tag in your document head with the value yes. Once this is done the player will be able to add the game to the springboard from Safari as shown in the following screenshot:

The code you should have in your header is as follows:

<meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes" />

A web page installed this way will be run without any visible browser UI elements (also called Chrome). The following figure gives the name of all the UI elements:

Sadly, at the time of writing...