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Canvas Cookbook

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Canvas Cookbook

Overview of this book

With the growing popularity of HTML5 Canvas, this book offers tailored recipes to help you develop portable applications, presentations, and games. The recipes are simple yet creative and build on each other. At every step, the book inspires the reader to develop his/her own recipe. From basic to advanced, every aspect of Canvas API has been covered to guide readers to develop their own application, presentation, or game.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Canvas Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Demonstrating animation


Animation adds life and spice in a game. Here, rather than the effect, the recipe focuses on the API usage. The recipe is simple and can be used to implement an educational concept (flash card). The output of the recipe is as follows:

How to do it…

The HTML code is as follows:

<html>
  <head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8" />
  <title>Animation Example</title>
    <script src="../phaser-master/build/phaser.min.js"></script>
  </head>
  <body>
    <script type="text/javascript">
      var game = new Phaser.Game(800, 600, Phaser.CANVAS, 'phaser-example', {preload: preload,create: create,render: render});
      var image;
      var imagename='';
      function preload() {
        game.load.spritesheet('image', 'gameimages/fruitsinsects.png', 64, 64,6);
      }
      function create() {
        image= game.add.sprite(300, 200, 'image');
        image.scale.setTo(2,2); 
        var flash=image.animations.add('flash')...