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Learn HTML5 by Creating Fun Games

By : Rodrigo Silveira
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Learn HTML5 by Creating Fun Games

By: Rodrigo Silveira

Overview of this book

HTML is fast, secure, responsive, interactive, and stunningly beautiful. It lets you target the largest number of devices and browsers with the least amount of effort. Working with the latest technologies is always fun and with a rapidly growing mobile market, it is a new and exciting place to be."Learn HTML5 by Creating Fun Games" takes you through the journey of learning HTML5 right from setting up the environment to creating fully-functional games. It will help you explore the basics while you work through the whole book with the completion of each game."Learn HTML5 by Creating Fun Games" takes a very friendly approach to teaching fun, silly games for the purpose of giving you a thorough grounding in HTML5. The book has only as much theory as it has to, often in tip boxes, with most of the information explaining how to create HTML5 canvas games. You will be assisted with lots of simple steps with screenshots building towards silly but addictive games.The book introduces you to HTML5 by helping you understand the setup and the underlying environment. As you start building your first game that is a typography game, you understand the significance of elements used in game development such as input types, web forms, and so on.We will see how to write a modern browser-compatible code while creating a basic Jelly Wobbling Game. Each game introduces you to an advanced topic such as vector graphics, native audio manipulation, and dragging-and-dropping. In the later section of the book, you will see yourself developing the famous snake game using requestAnimationFrame along with the canvas API, and enhancing it further with web messaging, web storage, and local storage. The last game of this book, a 2D Space shooter game, will then help you understand mobile design considerations.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Desktop versus mobile


At first sight, the careless web developer might be led to believe that, because many of today's smart phones are in fact quite a lot smarter than most fifth graders, that their fancy web applications and games will run just fine on a mobile device. Do not be deceived! Although it is true that your smart phone is indeed smarter than you were when in fifth grade (in fact, most not-so-smart phones today have more computer power than the hardware that NASA used to take Neil A. Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Edwin E. Aldrin to the moon in 1969), it is in many instances no match to the average desktop computer from which most people surf the internet and play games online.

There are several significant differences between a desktop browser and a mobile browser. For this reason, we need to develop our applications with these differences in mind. After all, no matter how large the group of people only using the internet strictly from a mobile device or from a desktop browser...