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jQuery Game Development Essentials

You're reading from jQuery Game Development Essentials Learn how to make fun and addictive multi-platform games using jQuery with this book and ebook.

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2013

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781849695060

Length 244 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

JavaScript

Tools

jQuery

Concepts

2D Game Development

Author (1):

Selim Arsever

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

jQuery Game Development Essentials

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewer

www.PacktPub.com

Preface

1. jQuery for Games

2. Creating Our First Game FREE CHAPTER

3. Better, Faster, but not Harder

4. Looking Sideways

5. Putting Things into Perspective

6. Adding Levels to Your Games

7. Making a Multiplayer Game

8. Let's Get Social

9. Making Your Game Mobile

10. Making Some Noise

Index

Web Audio API

The Web Audio API aims to give the JavaScript developer basically the same tool he is used to having when writing a native application. It replicates the capabilities of OpenAL, a very widely used API for game development. Furthermore it's a standard API. Sadly, for the moment, it's only implemented on Webkit-based browsers including the mobile version in iOS 6.

Before work on this standard began, Mozilla added a similar API to Firefox called Audio Data and is currently working on migrating to the Web Audio API. It should probably be available in a stable version before the end of 2013. As for Internet Explorer, nothing has been announced yet. If you want to use the Web Audio API in Firefox, you can now use the audionode.js library (https://github.com/corbanbrook/audionode.js), but it's incomplete and hasn't been updated in years. However, if you stick to simple usage, it will probably do the trick!

Instead of simply providing a way to play a sound, this API provides a full stack...

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Authors (1)

Selim Arsever

Selim Arsever

Selim Arsever is a Senior Software Engineer working as a consultant in Switzerland. Over the last 4 years, he has been developing gameQuery (http://gamequeryjs.com), an open source game engine based on jQuery, as well as other JavaScript games and demos. He has been giving several talks on the subject and thinks that there is nothing more interesting than using tools beyond what they were initially intended for. You can follow him on twitter at @SelimArsever.

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