Foundation Game Design with HTML5 and JavaScript teaches you
everything you need to know about how to make video games. If
you've never done any programming before and don't know where to
start, this book will show you how to make games from start to
finish. You'll learn all the latest programming technologies
(HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript) to create your games. All written in a
fun and friendly style with open-ended projects that encourage you
to build your own original games. Foundation Game Design with HTML5
and JavaScript starts by showing you how you can use basic
programing to create logic games, adventure games, and create
interactive game graphics. Design a game character, learn to
control it with the keyboard, mouse, or touch screen interface, and
then learn how to use collision detection to build an interactive
game world. You'll learn to make maze games, platform jumping
games, and fast paced action games that cover all the popular
genres of 2D gaming. Create intelligent enemies, use realistic
physics, sound effects and music, and learn how to animate game
characters.Whether you're creating games for the web or mobile
devices, everything you need to get started on a career as a game
designer is right here. * Focused and friendly introduction to
making games with HTML5. * Essential programming and graphic design
techniques for building games, with each chapter gently building on
the skills of preceding chapters. * Detailed case studies
demonstrating techniques that can be used for making games in a
wide variety of genres. What you'll learn * Get a thorough
grounding in HTML5 and good programming practices, with minimal
prior programming experience required. * Discover how to build
logic, adventure, and 2D action games in a wide range of genres. *
Master collision detection, Enemy AI systems, player control, basic
physics and easy trigonometry. * Make use of modern JavaScript
programming techniques to build robust games that are quick to
make, easy to maintain, and simple to extend. * Understand the
strategies for making games fun to play and easy to build.Who this
book is for Foundation Game Design with HTML5 and JavaScript is for
a non-technical creative person who wants to learn the art of video
game design, but has no idea where to start or where to look for
help. It is a lucid, friendly and step-by-step guide though all the
technical and creative issues involved in game design. This book
treats programming as a creative artistic tool, and will help
anyone who may be afraid of programming to love the subject as much
as the author does. The techniques in the book are comprehensive
enough to form the basis of a career as a game designer, and form a
solid foundation for continued study of programming and graphic
design for games. This book is the missing link that will guide and
inspire any curious and creative person to turn a good game idea
into a reality.
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