March 2012
Intermediate to advanced
281 pages
7h 27m
English
book
HTML5 Games Most Wanted: Build the Best HTML5 Games
by Seb Lee-Delisle, Gaëtan Renaudeau, Jonathan Bergknoff, Egor Kuryanovich, Mathias Paumgarten, Russell Goldenberg, David Strauß, Rob Hawkes, Brian Danchilla, Jonas Wagner, Shy Shalom
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Introduction
HTML5 is a “game changer,” allowing web browsers on such diverse hardware as smartphones, tablets, and personal computers to display the same games, interactive ads, and rich-media applications that were previously only possible as long as the end-user had downloaded the appropriate third-party plug-ins, most notably Flash. With the advent of HTML5, programmers are able to create cross-platform web applications.
The authors of this book are all real-world games programmers who have come together to share their HTML5 expertise, tips, and tricks with you.
In the first chapter of the book, Rob Hawkes, a Mozilla evangelist, discusses the state of open web gaming today. He explores the core technologies of HTML5 and JavaScript and ...
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