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

CHAPTER 5

Working with Textures, Sprites, and Fonts

After completing this chapter, you will be able to:

• Use any image or photograph as a texture representing characters or objects in your game
• Understand and use texture coordinates to identify a location on an image
• Optimize texture memory utilization by combining multiple characters and objects into one image
• Produce and control animations using sprite sheets
• Display texts of different fonts and sizes anywhere in your game

Introduction

Custom-composed images are used to represent almost all objects including characters, backgrounds, and even animations in most 2D games. For this reason, the ...