jQuery Game Development Essentials: Learn how to make fun and addictive multi-platform games using jQuery with this book and ebook.

Selim Arsever

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Paperback Apr 2013 244 pages 1st Edition

Selim Arsever

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Discover how you can create a fantastic RPG, arcade game, or platformer using jQuery!
Learn how you can integrate your game with various social networks, creating multiplayer experiences and also ensuring compatibility with mobile devices.
Create your very own framework, harnessing the very best design patterns and proven techniques along the way.
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jQuery is a leading multi-browser JavaScript library that developers across the world utilize on a daily basis to help simplify client-side scripting. Using the friendly and powerful jQuery to create games based on DOM manipulations and CSS transforms allows you to target a vast array of browsers and devices without having to worry about individual peculiarities."jQuery Game Development Essentials" will teach you how to use the environment, language, and framework that you're familiar with in an entirely new way so that you can create beautiful and addictive games. With concrete examples and detailed technical explanations you will learn how to apply game development techniques in a highly practical context.This essential reference explains classic game development techniques like sprite animations, tile-maps, collision detection, and parallax scrolling in a context specific to jQuery. In addition, there is coverage of advanced topics specific to creating games with the popular JavaScript library, such as integration with social networks alongside multiplayer and mobile support. jQuery Game Development Essentials will take you on a journey that will utilize your existing skills as a web developer so that you can create fantastic, addictive games that run right in the browser.

Who is this book for?

Knowledge of JavaScript and jQuery as well as basic experience with frontend development is all you need to start making games in a matter of hours with this essential guide. Whilst also suitable for those who simply want to start making games with jQuery, it's specifically targeted at web developers that want to experiment with and utilize their existing skills.

What you will learn

Create sprite-based, multi-platform games using the latest web standards and jQuery
Use powerful techniques directly from the games industry to make your own games harness stunning visual effects without compromising on performance
Learn how you can develop real-time multiplayer games and integrate them with social networks
Overcome the limitations of mobile browsers allowing you to take full advantage of their various features with minimum hassle
Develop a platformer, an arcade game, or even your very own RPG with jQuery at the core
Discover how you can easily implement features like parallax scrolling
Utilize your existing skills in jQuery in a fun and exciting new context

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Marin Nikolovski May 21, 2013

I think that "jQuery Game Development Essentials" is an excellent book, because it gives its readers a lot of information how to create games with jQuery and JavaScript. The topics in this book are well chosen and cover a lot of game development techniques that are needed for creating a single-player and multiplayer games and integrating them with social networks like Twitter and Facebook.The book is divided into several chapters and by reading them the readers will learn:* about the general principles and design patterns that are used for video game development;* how to create a single-player platformer;* how to extend the single-player code in order to create a multiplayer game;* how to optimize the code, so that the games that are developed can utilize the resources that are available to them to the maximum;* how to protect the developed game from hacking;* how to integrate the developed games with Twitter and Facebook.Each chapter is written in a clear way and begins with an introduction of the goal that should be achieved, followed by a detailed tutorial of how it can be achieved, ending with a conclusion that describes what was done in the chapter. Each tutorial contains step-by-step explanations, followed by a sample code. They are also accompanied by links to useful articles or references to other books that the readers can use in order to broaden their knowledge.Although I'm mostly pleased with this book, I have some remarks about it:* The book only gives a short introduction into jQuery and JavaScript - the book is filled with a lot of sample codes and, in order to analyze them successfully, you need to have a solid knowledge of jQuery and JavaScript. However, this is not a very big problem, because the author pinpoints some external articles and books that can help the readers to learn everything they need to know about them.* The step-by-step explanations that are given in the book are general and are not enough to develop a game (the author is missing some of the steps). But, this is not a very big problem, because the book comes with sample projects that the readers can analyze and debug, so that they can observe in real-time what is actually happening.I recommend this book to anyone who is planning to, or is already doing game development. It is full of content and you can learn a lot from it. The author gives his best to cover as much topics as possible and make the readers more familiar with the crucial design patterns that are used in game development. The best part of reading this book is the fact that the explanations that are given in it are general, so they can be reused in the other programming languages as well. I have been developing games for several years and I found this book very useful. Definitely worth buying it!

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mmoDust May 28, 2013

The book starts off with the following: "Writing games is not only fun but also a very good way to learn a technology through and through" and I could not agree more.I have been programming for 30+ years and at this point I want to try and future proof my knowledge by learning what looks to be very important to our future HTML and JS and jQuery is designed to make this much easier and efficient. I ran into this book while searching for HTML Game programming info and it seemed like it would be a great way to leverage jQuery for Game Creation and learn a bit on how HTML Games work in general and this book did not disappoint.From the beginning this book covers it all from the basics of what jQuery can do for you in Game Development down to how Audio works and extra ways to make things just work for your audience. The author also includes handy links to other references for more information on how to continue your learning which I thought was very helpful.The writing style is very friendly and it feels as if the author is there with you helping you learn rather than a dry instructional book. The code style is snippets of functional code and not complete start to end of each function which helps to keep the book focused on what you are learning for that chapter. The entire code is included as a download with the book so I never ran into an issue if I needed more information.This is a review of the eBook version and if you have the choice I would go with the ePub format as it is formatted very well with great use of color to keep things formatted for easy reading.

MzEdd Apr 10, 2014

Very readable. Straight to the meat of js games in bite size chunks. All code emailed to you on request as promised in the book.

A.R.S. Sep 14, 2013

I'm a basic-intermediate programmer of jquery, and what I liked of this book is that, in addition to teaching the topics it states, it teaches you how a professional programs. Other jquery books usually give the general theory of the language, but this book explains efficient ways to program and explains many particular aspects of javascript and jquery. It is an expert programmer explaining you how you should program and why.The book has some editing issues, but they are not important for you to take advantage of all that it offers.

Thriving Panda May 22, 2013

I did a review on my blog at grimpanda.com, but I thought I would share it here as well, so I copied/pasted the most relevant bits. I loved this book!In the preface, the author asserts that the book is recommended for beginners of web development who have at least some knowledge in Javascript/jQuery. While this is certainly true, let me be the first to say that it's usefulness extends far beyond the new developer. If you can sit down at your keyboard and write a fully featured jQuery multiplayer mobile/browser game without needing any assistance, this book isn't for you. If, on the other hand, you are weak in any area ranging from jQuery utilization, building your own game engine frameworks, server code for efficient multiplayer game features, utilizing social networking effectively in your game or launching all of this onto a mobile device, then this book *is* for you.StructureToo often I pick up a book and get a couple chapters in only to realize that they pulled out all of the stops right at the beginning and then ran out of air. Even more common are books that present information in fragments that are difficult to implement in any meaningful way. In the end, the reader is left with another space on the bookshelf filled with a nothing more than a very poor, overly-worded reference.Not so with jQuery Game Development Essentials. Selim Arsever, the books author, leads the reader carefully down a path of understanding and knowledge gathering. Arsever begins by familiarizing the reader with critical concepts, before moving easily into an approachable but powerful game example. The simple, single screen game, teaches the programmer important cornerstones such as collision detection, game states, and input calculation; A foundation the reader can build upon solidly while continuing the journey forwards to more developing more robust skills.LanguageThroughout the publication, Arsever keeps the reader engaged by using easy to read, simple language. While your skillset and understanding will continue to ramp up as you progress through the chapters, the difficulty does not. Again, this is due in large part to the books meticulous ability of explaining the foundation before moving on to the more advanced sections.That is probably my favorite feature of this book. Pretty often I am able to follow books in this category in the beginning. Inevitably however, I end up getting mired down in the language as the text progresses. Usually, I end up just pasting code and giving up on reading the chapters explaining it. This leaves me feeling unsatisfied and well... a little sad! Not so in this book! I was able to read through each and every chapter as if it were the first. I really can't stress my happiness with this major detail.Building BlocksAs I've already mentioned, the book carefully leads the reader from concept to concept in text, and mirrors that growth in the actual coding. There is no useless information in this book. No fluff code, or stupid games that teach nothing. Each page is designed to progress you that much further in your journey down this awesome road.While not strictly so, the layout sort of follows a "learn it, build it, improve it" workflow. Arsever will introduce key concepts, discuss them in an intuitive manner, then have you working with relevant code. Only after introducing the simplest possible answer to a problem will the reader then move on to make it more robust. In this manner, it is very easy to take in the information in a modular method.After you have a decent working prototype, he will usually spend quite a bit making sure that we can take the basics to something modern and exciting. Anything from integrating social networking into your game to allowing your new game to respond to user touch!TLCHere's another aspect of the book that really drew me in. There are many times throughout the publication that Arsever takes time to `care'. I say `care' because he obviously spent a great deal of time thinking about YOU the reader. He doesn't just shove directions down your throat, but takes the time to inform you what tools are available for the upcoming tasks. He understands that not everyone can afford the most expensive tools, so wherever possible he links us to open source and freely available alternatives.On top of that, he points points out whenever possible, areas that might need additional attention. For example, he knows that social website API's change often, and instead of simply leaving you with some code that may not work over time, he explains how you can stay up to date in the future. These little things really impress me. I don't feel like I was taken for a quick buck or two and left hanging. I feel more like I'm being taught and privileged enough to learn from the best.Wrapping UpIn jQuery Game Development Essentials you will move from a single screen web game to a multiplayer RPG to distributing your creations across mobile networks. It not only promises this, but does so in spades. Selim Arsever gets you from 0 to 60, no, 0 to 100 in red carpet fashion. He shrugs off the pitfalls of other books in the genre without issue. It's easy enough to follow from cover to cover, that if you are a complete beginner you will have no trouble. It's feature packed enough that even a seasoned programmer will find more than enough helpful information to take their experience and knowledge to the next level.

jQuery Game Development Essentials: Learn how to make fun and addictive multi-platform games using jQuery with this book and ebook.

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