Chapter 1. jQuery for Games

Over the course of the last few years, jQuery has almost become the default framework for any JavaScript development. More than 55 percent of the top 10,000 most visited websites as well as an estimated total of 24 million websites on the Internet are using it (more at http://trends.builtwith.com/javascript/JQuery). And this trend doesn't show any sign of stopping.

This book expects you to have some prior experience of jQuery. If you feel that you don't meet this requirement, then you could first learn more about it in Learning jQuery, Jonathan Chaffer, Karl Swedberg, Packt Publishing.

This chapter will quickly go through the peculiarities of jQuery and will then dive deeper into its most game-oriented functions. Even if you probably have already used most of them, you may not be familiar with the full extent of their capabilities. The following is a detailed list of the topics addressed in this chapter:

• The peculiarities of jQuery

• The function that will help you for moving elements around

• Event handling

• DOM manipulation