HTML5 Game Development For Dummies® -- About the Author -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- About This Book -- What You Will Need -- How to Read This Book -- How This Book Is Organized -- We Even Use the Internet Thingy! -- Icons Used in This Book -- Where to Go from Here -- Part I: Building the Foundation -- Chapter 1: Playing on the Web -- Building the Framework -- Setting Up Your Workshop -- Building Your First Game -- Building a Basic Page -- Chapter 2: Talking to the User -- Making an Interactive Form -- Adding JavaScript to Your Page -- Building the Word Story Game -- Chapter 3: Coding Like a Pro -- Working with Variables -- Making Choices with if -- Managing Repetition with for loops -- Building While Loops -- Sending Data to and from Functions -- Using Arrays to Simplify Data -- Chapter 4: Random Thoughts: Building a Simple Game -- Creating Random Numbers -- Building the Number Guesser -- Part II: Basic Game Development -- Chapter 5: Introducing simpleGame.js -- Using a Game Engine -- Building an Animation with simpleGame.js -- Considering Objects -- Bringing Your Game -- Chapter 6: Creating Game Elements -- Building Your Own Sprite Objects -- Sound Programming Principles -- Game Programming's Greatest Hits! -- It's All About Timing . . . -- Chapter 7: Getting to a Game -- Building a Real Game -- Planning Your Game -- Programming On the Fly -- Clearly, We Need an Amphibian -- Combining the Frog and the Fly -- When Sprites Collide -- Working with Multiple Flies -- Adding the Final Touches -- Part III: Diving Deeper -- Chapter 8: Motion and Animation -- Physics - Even More Fun Than You Remember -- Lost in Space -- Don't Be a Drag - Adding Drag Effects -- Do You Catch My Drift? -- Recognizing the Gravity of the Situation -- Houston, We've Achieved Orbit -- Does This Car Come with a Missile Launcher? -- Building a Multi-State Animation.

Chapter 9: Going Mobile -- Using HTML5 as a Mobile Language -- Putting Your Game on a Server -- Making Your Game App-Ready -- Managing Alternate Input -- Reading the Virtual Joystick -- Chapter 10: Documenting simpleGame -- Overview of SimpleGame -- The Scene Object -- The Sprite Class -- Utility Classes -- Making the Game Engine Your Own -- Part IV: The Part of Tens -- Chapter 11: Ten Great Game Asset Resources -- Dia Diagramming Tool -- GIMP - A Powerful Image Editor -- Ari's SpriteLib -- Reiner's Tilesets -- OpenGameArt -- Blender -- Audacity - Useful for Sound Effects -- Freesound.org -- SoundJay.com -- BFXR Incredible Eight-Bit Sound Effects -- InkScape -- Chapter 12: Ten Concepts Behind simpleGame -- Using the Canvas Tag -- Creating an Animation Loop -- Angles in the Outfield -- Transformations in Canvas -- Vector Projection -- Using the Sound Object -- Reading the Keyboard -- Managing the Touch Interface -- Collision Detection -- Boundary Checking -- Chapter 13: Ten Game Starters -- Lunar Lander -- Mail Pilot -- The Marble-Rolling Game -- Whack-a-Mole -- Jump and Run on Platforms -- Pong - the Granddaddy of Them All -- I'm a Fighter, Not a Lover - RPGs -- Tanks - and You're Welcome! -- Miles and Miles of Tiles and Tiles -- Tic-Tac-Toe Is the Way to Go -- Index.