Mobile Game Development Using HTML5

Create mobile game apps for the lucrative gaming market.

If you’re an experienced developer seeking to break into the sizzling mobile game market, it is for you. Covering all mobile and touchscreen devices, including iPhones, iPads, Android, and WP7.5, this e-book takes you through the steps of building both single- and multi-player mobile games. Topics include standard patterns for building games in HTML5, what methods to choose for building (CSS3, SVG, or Canvas), popular game engines and frameworks, and much more. Best of all, code for six basic games is provided, so you can modify, further develop, and make it your own.

Shows intermediate developers how to develop games in HTML5 and build games for iPhone, iPad, Android, and WP7.5 mobile and touchscreen devices
Explains single-player and multi-player mobile game development
Provides code for six basic games in a GitHub repository, so readers can collaborate and develop the code themselves
Explores specific APIs to make games even more compelling, including geolocation, audio, and device orientation
Reviews three popular open-source HTML5 game engines–crafty.js, easel.js, and enchant.js
Covers simple physics as well as using an existing physics library

The world is going mobile, as is the game industry. Professional HTML5 Mobile Game Development helps savvy developers join in this exploding market.

Professional HTML5 Mobile Game Development

Clarifies when to use each of the three primary methods for building an HTML game: CSS3, SVG, or Canvas
Reviews the standard patterns for building real-time multiplayer games in HTML5
Addresses JavaScript® game development basics
Walks you through creating a 2-D platformer and building nontraditional multiplayer interfaces
Reveals a variety of mobile enhancements such as geolocation, device orientation, accelerations, and sound
Offers suggestions for packing up an HTML5 game to get it to the app store

Table of Contents

Part I: Diving In

Chapter 1. Flying Before You Walk
Chapter 2. Making It a Game
Chapter 3. Finishing Up and Going Mobile

Part II: Mobile HTML5

Chapter 4. HTML5 for Mobile
Chapter 5. Learning Some Helpful Libraries
Chapter 6. Being a Good Mobile Citizen

Part III: JavaScript Game Dev Basics

Chapter 7. Learning about Your HTML5 Game Development Environment
Chapter 8. Running JavaScript on the Command Line
Chapter 9. Bootstrapping the Quintus Engine: Part I
Chapter 10. Bootstrapping the Quintus Engine: Part II
Chapter 11. Bootstrapping the Quintus Engine: Part III

Part IV: Building Games with CSS3 and SVG

Chapter 12. Building Games with CSS3
Chapter 13. Crafting a CSS3 RPG
Chapter 14. Building Games with SVG and Physics

Part V: HTML5 Canvas

Chapter 15. Learning Canvas, the Hero of HTML5
Chapter 16. Getting Animated
Chapter 17. Playing with Pixels
Chapter 18. Creating a 2-D Platformer
Chapter 19. Building a Canvas Editor

Part VI: Multiplayer Gaming

Chapter 20. Building for Online and Social
Chapter 21. Going Real Time
Chapter 22. Building Nontraditional Games

Part VII: Mobile Enhancements

Chapter 23. Locating via Geolocation
Chapter 24. Querying Device Orientation and Acceleration
Chapter 25. Playing Sounds, the Mobile Achilles Heel

Part VIII: Game Engines and App Stores

Chapter 26. Using an HTML5 Game Engine
Chapter 27. Targeting App Stores
Chapter 28. Seeking Out What’s Next