Dive into game development and create great multiplayer online games with Pro Android Web Game Apps. This hands-on guide covers both the theory and practice of browser game development for the Android platform. You'll use cutting-edge technologies to make game engines in your browser, establish real-time server communication, and create amazing gaming experiences with artificial intelligence and rich media.
Bring your knowledge of HTML and JavaScript to the next level with Pro Android Web Game Apps. You are guided through exciting projects that give you firsthand experience with core game app development concepts. You'll start with a blank HTML page, and by the end of the book, have the skills needed to? create a multiplayer online game with rich graphics, sound, animation, and moreeven if you have no previous games development or server-side experience.??
- Preparing the Environment
- Graphics in the Browser: the Canvas Element
- Creating the First Game
- Animations and Sprites
- Event Handling and User Input
- Rendering Virtual Worlds
- Making an Isometric Engine
- 3D in a Browser
- Using?WebGL?
- Going Serverside?
- Talking to the Server
- Making Multiplayer Games?
- AI and Physics?
- JavaScript Game?Engines?
- Building Native Applications?
- Adding Sound
- App A: Debugging Web Applications?
Juriy Bura is a software engineer who lives in Kiev, Ukraine with his wife and daughter. Having more than seven years of experience in Java and JavaScript, he is sure that game development is the area with the most fun concentrated in a line of code. His passion for games developmelć¾