CHAPTER 5
Faster Canvas Picking
If you’re writing a 2D game in HTML5, chances are that you’ll want the user to have the ability to pick an object on the screen. More specifically, at some point, the user will need to select some item on the screen, or in your game, which may represent part of the world. We call this “picking” as the user is selecting what object they are interacting with. Consider, for instance, your standard social time-management game. The user is presented with a 2.5D play area where bitmaps (or “sprites”) are rendered with some perspective distortion on the screen. For ...
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