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HTML5 Game Development Hotshot

You're reading from   HTML5 Game Development Hotshot Build interactive games with HTML, DOM, and the CreateJS Game library.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2014
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ISBN-13 9781849695466
Length 366 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Makzan Makzan (Mak Seng Hin) Makzan Makzan (Mak Seng Hin)
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Seng Hin Mak Seng Hin Mak
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Table of Contents (10) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Building a CSS Quest Game FREE CHAPTER 2. Card Battle! 3. Space Runner 4. Multiply Defense 5. Building an Isometric City Game 6. Space Defenders 7. A Ball-shooting Machine with Physics Engine 8. Creating a Sushi Shop Game with Device Scaling Index

Designing the game's user interface

In this task, we will set up the project and create the essential interface elements.

Prepare for lift off

The first thing we will do is create our project directory with the following file structure:

index.html
styles/game.css
scripts/game.js
vendors/easeljs-0.7.1.min.js
vendors/tweenjs-0.5.1.min.js
images/

In this task, we need the following image files. You can get them from the code bundle.

Prepare for lift off

The index.html file is very similar to the previous examples. We'll only show the most relevant HTML code here. We have defined the following game section:

...
<section id="game" class="row">
  <canvas id="canvas" width="960" height="480"></canvas>
</section>
...

Just before closing the body tag, we include the libraries and the game.js JavaScript files:

...
<script src="vendors/easeljs-0.7.1.min.js"></script>
<script src="vendors/tweenjs-0.5.1.min.js&quot...
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