HTML5 Game Development Insights is a from-the-trenches collection of tips, tricks, hacks, and advice straight from professional HTML5 game developers. The 24 chapters here include unique, cutting edge, and essential techniques for creating and optimizing modern HTML5 games. You will learn things such as using the Gamepad API, real-time networking, getting 60fps full screen HTML5 games on mobile, using languages such as Dart and TypeScript, and tips for streamlining and automating your workflow. Game development is a complex topic, but you don't need to reinvent the wheel. HTML5 Game Development Insights will teach you how the pros do it. The book is comprised of six main sections: Performance; Game Media: Sound and Rendering; Networking, Load Times, and Assets; Mobile Techniques and Advice; Cross-Language JavaScript; Tools and Useful Libraries. Within each of these sections, you will find tips that will help you work faster and more efficiently and achieve better results. Presented as a series of short chapters from various professionals in the HTML5 gaming industry, all of the source code for each article is included and can be used by advanced programmers immediately.What you'll learn *From The Trenches tips, hacks, and advice on HTML5 game development * Best practices for building Mobile HTML5 games * Actionable advice and code for both professional and novicesWho this book is for HTML5 Game Development Insights is for the game developer looking to improve their development process at all stages of the game development pipeline; The nuggets of awesome in this book are applicable both to the hobbyist, trying to track down a performance bug in rendering, and the professional, who is looking to speed up loading time by re-packing their artist-generated images. With this book, it's like looking over the shoulder of the top HTML5 game developers

HTML5 is here, and with it, web applications have acquired power, ease, scalability, and responsiveness like never before. With this book, developers will learn how to use the latest cutting-edge HTML5 web technology--available in the most recent versions of modern browsers--to build web applications with unparalleled functionality, speed, and responsiveness. This new edition includes major revisions for WebSockets functionality, reflecting the new W3C specification. It also features new chapters covering the drag-and-drop API as well as SVG. * Explains how to create real-time HTML5 applications that tap the full potential of modern browsers * Provides practical, real-world examples of HTML5 features in action * Covers all the new HTML5 APIs to get you up-to-speed quickly with HTML5 * Fully updated to include the latest revisions of the WebSocket API, and much more.What you'll learn * How the HTML5 specification has evolved * How to develop cutting-edge web applications using new HTML5 features like WebSockets, geolocation, web storage, Canvas, and audio/video * Which features are available in modern browsers Who this book is for * Web designers and developers who want to use the latest cutting-edge technology available in current browsers * Developers who want to create dynamic, HTML5 web applications * Developers who want to know which HTML5 features are supported by modern browsers Table of Contents * Overview of HTML5 * Using the Canvas API * Working With Scalable Vector Graphics * Working with Audio and Video * Using the Geolocation API * Using the Communication APIs * Using the WebSocket API * Using the Forms API * Working with Drag-and-Drop * Using the Web Workers API * Using the Storage APIs * Creating Offline Web Applications * The Future of HTML5

HTML5 is here, and with it, web applications take on a power, ease, scalability, and responsiveness like never before. In this book, developers will learn how to use the latest cutting-edge HTML5 web technologyavailable in the most recent versions of modern browsersto build web applications with unparalleled functionality, speed, and responsiveness.Explains how to create real-time HTML5 applications that tap the full potential of modern browsers Provides practical, real-world examples of HTML5 features in action Shows which HTML5 features are supported in current browsers Covers all the new HTML5 APIs to get you up to speed quickly with HTML5 What you'll learn How the HTML5 specification has evolved How to develop cutting-edge web applications using new HTML5 features like WebSockets, geolocation, Web Storage, Canvas, and audio and video Which features are available in browsers today Who this book is for

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