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Color Key: Serious technical mistake Minor technical mistake Language or formatting error Typo Question Note Update
| Version |
Location |
Description |
Submitted by |
Date submitted |
| PDF |
Page 11
Chile |
In the Introduction to Visual Studio Express, after the first paragraph, on the "general note" section, it says:
"You can also get a free trail of Visual
Studio Pro and Ultimate to follow along with the book?s examples."
But it should say:
"You can also get a free trial of Visual
Studio Pro and Ultimate to follow along with the book?s examples."
|
Felipe Budinich |
Jan 08, 2014 |
| PDF |
Page 26
Chile |
On the "Scaling games for Full Screen" section, on the last line of the first paragraph, it says:
"Fortunately, we can take advantage of a few techniques to stretch out our canvas in a way that will help balance performance and maintain the ascetics of your game."
it should say:
"Fortunately, we can take advantage of a few techniques to stretch out our canvas in a way that will help balance performance and maintain the aesthetics of your game."
|
Felipe Budinich |
Jan 08, 2014 |
| PDF |
Page 28
Chile |
On the second paragraph, it says:
"This also assumes that you have the following setup in your index.html or default.html with the canvas inside a div with an ID called game."
The index.html or default.html code sample says:
<body>
<canvas id="canvas"></canvas>
</body>
instead the code sample should be:
<body>
<div id="game">
<canvas id="canvas"></canvas>
</div>
</body>
|
Felipe Budinich |
Jan 08, 2014 |
| PDF |
Page 29
Chile |
On the "Understanding Snap View" section, the index.html file code sample says:
<body>
<div id="game">
<canvas id="canvas"></canvas>
<img id="snap-view" src="media/snap-view.png"/>
</game>
</body>
it should say:
<body>
<div id="game">
<canvas id="canvas"></canvas>
<img id="snap-view" src="media/snap-view.png"/>
</div>
</body>
|
Felipe Budinich |
Jan 08, 2014 |
| PDF |
Page 33
Chile |
On the last sentence of the first paragraph, it says:
"So, if I have a 16?16 pixel sprite, I can display it at 24?24 pixels by increasing the scale factor by two or even up to four times its original size."
should say:
"So, if I have a 16?16 pixel sprite, I can display it at 32?32 pixels by increasing the scale factor by two or even up to four times its original size."
|
Felipe Budinich |
Jan 08, 2014 |