HTML5 Game Development Insights

About the Authors .............................................................................................................. xix

About the Technical Reviewers ....................................................................................... xxiii

Introduction ...................................................................................................................... xxv

■■Chapter 1: JavaScript Is Not the Language You Think It Is ...............................................1

■■Chapter 2: Optimal Asset Loading ...................................................................................15

■■Chapter 3: High-Performance JavaScript ........................................................................43

■■Chapter 4: Efficient JavaScript Data Structures ..............................................................59

■■Chapter 5: Faster Canvas Picking ...................................................................................69

■■Chapter 6: Autotiles .........................................................................................................87

■■Chapter 7: Importing Flash Assets ..................................................................................99

■■Chapter 8: Applying Old-School Video Game Techniques in Modern Web Games .........105

■■Chapter 9: Optimizing WebGL Usage .............................................................................147

■■Chapter 10: Playing Around with the Gamepad API ......................................................163

■■Chapter 11: Introduction to WebSockets for Game Developers .....................................177

■■Chapter 12: Real-Time Multiplayer Network Programming ..........................................195

■■Chapter 13: The State of Responsive Design .................................................................211

■■Chapter 14: Making a Multiplatform Game ...................................................................221

■■Chapter 15: Developing Better Than Native Games .......................................................231

■■Chapter 16: Mobile Web Game Techniques with Canvas 2D API ...................................245

■■Chapter 17: Faster Map Rendering ................................................................................263

■■Chapter 18: HTML5 Games in C++ with Emscripten ......................................................283

■■Chapter 19: Introduction to TypeScript: Building a Rogue-like Engine .........................299

■■Chapter 20: Implementing a Main Loop in Dart .............................................................325

■■Chapter 21: Saving Bandwidth and Memory with WebGL and Crunch ..........................337

■■Chapter 22: Creating a Two-Dimensional Map Editor ....................................................361

■■Chapter 23: Automating Your Workflow with Node.js and Grunt ...................................383

■■Chapter 24: Building a Game with the Cocos2d-html5 Library .....................................395

Index .................................................................................................................................437