Build Your Own 2D Game Engine and Create Great Web Games: Using HTML5, JavaScript, and WebGL

CHAPTER 4

Implementing Common Components of Video Games

After completing this chapter, you will be able to:

• Control the Renderable object’s position, size, and rotation to construct complex movements and animations
• Receive keyboard input from the player and animate Renderable objects
• Work with asynchronous loading and unloading of external assets
• Define, load, and execute a simple game level from a scene file
• Change game levels by loading a new scene
• Work with sound clips for background music and audio cues

Introduction

In the previous chapters, a skeletal game engine was constructed to support basic drawing operations. Drawing is the first ...