HTML5 Game Development with ImpactJS -- Table of Contents -- HTML5 Game Development with ImpactJS -- Credits -- Foreword -- About the Authors -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more -- Why Subscribe? -- Free Access for Packt account holders -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Downloading the example code -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. Firing Up Your First Impact Game -- Installing a XAMPP server -- Installing the game engine: ImpactJS -- Choosing a script editor -- Running the premade game -- Debugging your game with the browser and ImpactJS -- Debugging with the browser -- Firebug - the Firefox debugger -- Chrome debugger -- Exercises in debugging with Chrome and Firebug -- Debugging with ImpactJS -- Which helpful tools are out there -- Ejecta -- AppMobi -- PhoneGap -- lawnchair -- Scoreoid -- Playtomic -- one.com webhost -- Summary -- 2. Introducing ImpactJS -- Building your own levels -- Creating, loading, and saving levels in Weltmeister -- Layers and the z axis -- Adding and removing entities and objects -- The collision layer -- Connecting two different levels -- Objects - playable and non-playable characters -- The ImpactJS entity -- Setting up player controls -- Position, acceleration, and speed -- The game's graphics: sprites and animation sheets -- Spawning, health, and death -- The camera view -- The game canvas -- Free to move camera -- Automatically following camera -- Adding music and sound effects -- Playing background music -- Introducing sound effects -- Game physics with Box2D -- Gravity and force -- Collision impact and bounciness -- Summary -- 3. Let's Build a Role Playing Game -- The RPG game setting -- Building an RPG level -- Adding a playable character.

Introducing a defeatable opponent -- Giving the player some weapons -- Spawning a projectile -- Causing harm with a projectile -- Bringing your NPCs to life with artificial intelligence -- The NPC's behavior -- The NPC's decision making process -- Pickup items to help out your player -- Healing your player with a potion -- Becoming rich with coins -- Keeping score for player feedback -- Transitioning from one area to another -- NPCs and conversation -- The speech balloon -- Adding a talking non-playable character -- The final battle -- Summary -- 4. Let's Build a Side Scroller Game -- The side scroller game setting -- Preparing the game for Box2D -- Building a side scroller level -- The playable character -- Adding a minor foe -- Introducing formidable weapons -- Shooting a projectile -- Building an actual bomb -- Artificial intelligence -- Pickup items -- Adding a normal crate -- Implementing a healing crate -- Keeping score -- Transitioning from one level to another -- The final battle -- Summary -- 5. Adding Some Advanced Features to Your Game -- The Start and Game-over screen -- The game's Start screen -- The Victory and Game-over screens -- More advanced debugging options -- Short introduction to unit testing -- Adding your own debug panel to the ImpactJS debugger -- Handling game data -- Adding data to your game -- Using cookies to store data on the player's computer -- Local storage -- Using lawnchair as a versatile way of storing data -- Extra functionalities for the RPG -- Moving the player with a mouse click -- Adding intelligent spawn locations -- Introducing basic conversation -- Adding a basic Head-Up Display -- Artificial intelligence: The hive mind -- Implementing Playtomic for game analytics -- Summary -- 6. Music and Sound Effects -- Making or buying the music -- Buying tunes and sound effects -- Making a basic tune using FL Studio.

Adding background music to your game -- Playing a sound when an action has happened -- Tips when using sound files in your game -- Summary -- 7. Graphics -- Making/buying the graphics -- Where to buy graphics -- Introduction to vector graphics -- Creating your own avatar using Adobe Photoshop -- Adding your creation to the RPG -- Hints for graphics in HTML5 -- Summary -- 8. Adapting Your HTML5 Game to the Distribution Channels -- Preparing your game for the web browser -- Preparing our game for mobile web browsers -- Turning the game into a web app for the Google Chrome Web Store -- Pushing your game to Android's Google play store -- Making your game available on Facebook -- Direct canvas game acceleration with AppMobi -- Summary -- 9. Making Money with Your Game -- Your game development strategy -- Making money with game apps -- Google Play -- iOS App Store -- The Chrome Web Store -- In-game advertising -- Selling distribution rights with MarketJS -- Summary -- Index.