Learning HTML5 Game Programming

the User 53 Representing Game Objects with Advanced Data Structures 54 Making Unique Lists of Data with Sets 54 Creating Object Graphs with Linked Lists 56 Understanding the APIs in Simple Game Framework 57 Core API 57 Components API 58 Resources API and Networking APIs 58 Building Pong with the Simple Game Framework 59 Setting Up the Application 59 Drawing the Game Pieces 61 Making Worlds Collide with Collision Detection and Response 63 Understanding Newton's Three Laws 63 Making the Ball Move 64 Advanced Collision Detection and Particle Systems with Asteroids 66 Creating Competitive Opponents with Artificial Intelligence 67 Adding AI to Pong 68 Advanced Computer AI with Tic-Tac-Toe 68 Chapter 5 Creating Games with the Canvas Tag 71 Getting Started with the Canvas 71 Drawing Your First Paths 72 Drawing Game Sprites for Tic-Tac-Toe 73 Drawing Objects on the Canvas with Transformations 75 Ordering Your Transformations 76 Saving and Restoring the Canvas Drawing State 77 Using Images with the Canvas 78 Serving Images with Data URLs 78 Serving Images with Spritesheets 78 Drawing Images on the Canvas 78 Animating Objects with Trident.js 79 Creating Timelines 80 Animating with Keyframes 81 Creating Nonlinear Timelines with Easing 81 Animating Game Objects with Spritesheets 83 Simulating 3D in 2D Space 84 Perspective Projection 84 Parallaxing 85 Creating a Parallax Effect with JavaScript 85 Creating Copy Me 87 Drawing Our Game Objects 87 Making the Game Tones 88 Playing MIDI Files in the Browser 89 Playing Multiple Sounds at Once 90 Playing Sounds Sequentially 91 Drawing Our Game Text 91 Styling Text with CSS Fonts 92 Chapter 6 Creating Games with SVG and RaphaelJS 95 Introduction to SVG 95 First Steps with RaphaelJS 97 Setting Up Our Development Environment 97 Drawing the Game Board 98 Drawing Game Text 99 Custom Fonts 100 Specifying Color 103 Loading Game Assets 104 Converting SVG Files to Bitmap Images 105 Creating Our Game Classes 105 Shuffling Cards 107 Drawing and Animating Cards 107 Creating Advanced Animations 110 Paths 110 moveto and lineto 110 curveto 111 Exporting Paths from an SVG File 112 Animating Along Paths 113 Extending Raphael with Plugins 113 Adding Functions 113 SVG Filters 113 Speed Considerations 114 Chapter 7 Creating Games with WebGL and Three.js 117 Moving to Three Dimensions 118 Giving Your Objects Some Swagger with Materials and Lighting 119 Understanding Lighting 120 Using Materials and Shaders 120 Creating Your First Three.js Scene 122 Setting Up the View 123 Viewing the World 128 Loading 3D Models with Three.js 129 Programming Shaders and Textures 131 Using Textures 134 Creating a Game with Three.js 136 Simulating the Real World with Game Physics 137 Revisiting Particle Systems 140 Creating Scenes 141 Selecting Objects in a Scene 142 Animating Models 142 Sourcing 3D Models 143 Benchmarking Your Games 144 Checking Frame Rate with Stats.js 144 Using the WebGL Inspector 145 Chapter 8 Creating Games Without JavaScript 147 Google Web Toolkit 147 Understanding GWT Widgets and Layout 148 Exposing JavaScript Libraries to GWT with JSNI 149 RaphaelGWT 150 Adding Sound with gwt-html5-media 151 Accessing the Drawing APIs with GWT 151 CoffeeScript 153 Installing CoffeeScript 153 Compiling CoffeeScript Files 153 A Quick Guide to CoffeeScript 154 Basics 154 Functions and Invocation 154 Aliases, Conditionals, and Loops 156 Enhanced for Loop and Maps 156 Classes and Inheritance 157 Alternate Technologies 158 Cappuccino 158 Pyjamas 158 Chapter 9 Building a Multiplayer Game Server 161 Introduction to Node.js 161 Extending Node with the Node Package Manager 162 Managing Multiple Node Versions 162 Making Web Apps Simpler with ExpressJS 163 Serving Requests with URL Routing 163 Managing Sessions 165 Understanding the ExpressJS Application Structure 165 Templating HTML with CoffeeKup 166 Persisting Data with Caching 168 Managing Client/Server Communication 169 Communicating with Socket.IO 169 Setting Up a Simple Socket.IO Application with Express 170 Making Web Sockets Simpler with NowJS 171 Debugging Node Applications 172 Creating a Game Server 173 Making the Game Lobby 173 Creating Game Rooms with NowJS Groups 174 Managing Game Participants and Moving Between Game Rooms 175 Managing Game Play 175 Chapter 10 Developing Mobile Games 179 Choosing a Mobile Platform 179 iOS 179 Android 180 WebOS 180 Windows Phone 7 180 Flick, Tap, and Swipe: A Quick Guide to Mobile Gestures 181 Deciding Between an Application and a Website 181 Storing Data on Mobile Devices 183 Relaxing in Your Lawnchair: An Easier Way to Store Data 183 Getting Started with Lawnchair 184 Client-Side Scripting Simplified with JQuery and Zepto 185 Using JQuery Variants 185 Using Zepto.js 187 Architecting Your Applications with JoApp 187 Choosing an Application Framework 188 PhoneGap 188 Diving into the PhoneGap APIs 189 Appcelerator Titanium 191 Diving into the Appcelerator Titanium APIs 191 Packaging Android Applications with Titanium and PhoneGap 191 Packaging an Application with Titanium 193 Packaging an Application with PhoneGap 195 Chapter 11 Publishing Your Games 199 Optimizing Your Game's Assets 199 Minification with Google Closure Compiler 199 Running Applications Offline with Application Cache 201 Hosting Your Own Server 203 Deploying Applications on Hosted Node.js Services 204 Publishing Applications on the Chrome Web Store 205 Describing Your Application's Metadata 206 Deploying a Hosted Application 207 Deploying a Packaged Application 208 Testing Your Applications Locally 208 Uploading Your Application to the Chrome Web Store 208 Configuring Your Application 210 Deciding Between Packaged and Hosted Chrome Apps 212 Publishing Applications with TapJS 212 Creating a TapJS Application 213 Packaging an Application for TapJS 215 Publishing a TapJS Application to Facebook 215 Publishing Games with Kongregate 217 Publishing HTML5 Applications to the Desktop 217 Index 219