Want to start building great web games with HTML5 and JavaScript? Moving from Flash or other game platforms? Already building HTML5 games and want to get better and faster at it? This guide brings together everything you need: expert guidance, sample projects, and working code! Evan Burchard walks you step-by-step through quickly building 10 popular types of games. Each chapter implements a game within a well-understood genre; introduces a different free, open source, and easy-to-use HTML5 game engine; and is accompanied with full JavaScript source code listings. Each game recipe uses tested and well-proven patterns that address the development challenges unique to that genre, and shows how to use existing tools and engines to build complete substantial game projects in just hours. Need a quick JavaScript primer? Evan Burchard provides that, too! Coverage includes • Mastering an essential HTML5/JavaScript game development toolset: browser, text editor, terminal, JavaScript console, game engine, and more • Accelerating development with external libraries and proven patterns • Managing browser differences between IE, Firefox, and Chrome • Getting up to speed on web development with a QUIZ game built with JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and JQuery • Creating INTERACTIVE FICTION “gamebooks” that leverage new CSS3 features and impress.js • Building PARTY games around the lightweight atom.js engine • Developing PUZZLE games with the easel.js graphics rendering engine • Writing PLATFORMERS with melon.js and its integrated tilemap editor • Coding intense 2-player FIGHTING games for web browsers with game.js • Building a SPACE SHOOTER with the jQuery-based gameQuery game engine • Implementing pseudo-3D techniques like ray casting for an FPS (First Person Shooter) style game • Producing a 16 bit RPG (Role Playing Game) complete with interfaces for dialog, inventories, and turn-based battles with enchant.js • Building an isometric RTS (Real Time Strategy) game that incorporates server components along with node.js, socket.io, and crafty.js • Engaging players with content that encourages exploration Turn to The Web Game Developer’s Cookbook for proven, expert answers–and the code you need to implement them. It’s all you need to jumpstart any web game project!

Evan Burchard walks you step-by-step through quickly building 10 popular types of games. Each chapter implements a game within a well-understood genre; introduces a different free, open source, and easy-to-use HTML5 game engine; and is accompanied with full JavaScript source code listings. Each game recipe uses tested and well-proven patterns that address the development challenges unique to that genre, and shows how to use existing tools and engines to build complete substantial game projects in just hours. Need a quick JavaScript primer? Evan Burchard provides that, too! Coverage includes Mastering an essential HTML5/JavaScript game development toolset: browser, text editor, terminal, JavaScript console, game engine, and more Accelerating development with external libraries and proven patterns Managing browser differences between IE, Firefox, and Chrome Getting up to speed on web development with a QUIZ game built with JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and JQuery Creating INTERACTIVE FICTION "gamebooks" that leverage new CSS3 features and impress.js Building PARTY games around the lightweight atom.js engine Developing PUZZLE games with the easel.js graphics rendering engine Writing PLATFORMERS with melon.js and its integrated tilemap editor Coding intense 2-player FIGHTING games for web browsers with game.js Building a SPACE SHOOTER with the jQuery-based gameQuery game engine Implementing pseudo-3D techniques like ray casting for an FPS (First Person Shooter) style game Producing a 16 bit RPG (Role Playing Game) complete with interfaces for dialog, inventories, and turn-based battles with enchant.js Building an isometric RTS (Real Time Strategy) game that incorporates server components along with node.js, socket.io, and crafty.js Engaging players with content that encourages exploration

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This is a cookbook with over 80 recipes offering solutions to common game development problems with Panda3D with explained sample code and screenshots added in.If you are a developer with experience in Python, Panda3D, and optionally C++ and shading languages and you are looking for quick and easy to integrate solutions to common game development problems with Panda3D, this book is for you.

This is a cookbook with over 80 recipes offering solutions to common game development problems with Panda3D with explained sample code and screenshots added in. If you are a developer with experience in Python, Panda3D, and optionally C++ and shading languages and you are looking for quick and easy to integrate solutions to common game development problems with Panda3D, this book is for you.

Want to build games with iOS technologies? This cookbook provides detailed recipes for a wide range of common iOS game-development issues, ranging from 2D and 3D math to Game Center integration, and OpenGL to performance. If you’re familiar with iOS and Objective-C, this is the problem-solving guide you want. Rather than focus on specific game engines for iOS, such as Cocos2D or the Corona SDK, the recipes in this cookbook strictly deal with baked-in iOS technologies. You’ll learn solutions for everything from tile-matching games to racing, with working code that you can use right away. Lay out the structure of your game Build and customize menus with UIKit Detect and respond to user input Use advanced techniques to play sound effects and music Work with data, using iOS devices and the cloud Create 2D graphics with SpriteKit Add physics simulation to your game Learn beginning to advanced 3D graphics Create challenges with artificial intelligence Use networking to add multiplayer capabilities Work with game controllers and multiple screens