jQuery Game Development Essentials -- Table of Contents -- jQuery Game Development Essentials -- Credits -- About the Author -- About the Reviewer -- 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. jQuery for Games -- The way of jQuery -- Chaining -- Polymorphism -- Moving things around -- Chaining animations -- Managing the queue -- .stop() -- .clearQueue() -- .dequeue() -- .delay() -- Other usages of queues -- Handling of events -- .bind() -- .delegate() -- Removing event handlers -- jQuery 1.7 -- Associating data with DOM elements -- Manipulating the DOM -- .append() -- .prepend() -- .html() -- .remove() -- .detach() -- Stay curious my friend! -- Summary -- 2. Creating Our First Game -- How does this book work? -- Let's get serious - the game -- Learning the basics -- Framework -- Sprites -- Implementing animations -- Adding animations to our framework -- Moving sprites around -- Preloading -- Initializing the game -- Main loop -- Main loop implementation -- Collision detection -- Summary -- 3. Better, Faster, but not Harder -- Intervals and timeouts -- One interval to rule them all -- Code -- Keyboard polling -- Keeping track of the keys' state -- HTML fragments -- Avoiding reflow -- Moving your sprite around using CSS Transforms -- Using requestAnimationFrame instead of timeouts -- Summary -- 4. Looking Sideways -- Offline divs -- Groups -- Sprite transformation -- CSS transform -- Adding transform to the framework -- Tile maps -- Naive implementation -- Collision detection -- Colliding with tile maps -- Finding the colliding tiles.

Sprite versus sprite collision -- Coding the game -- Basic setup of the game screen -- Object-oriented code for the player -- Updating the player's position -- Controlling the player's avatar -- Player control -- Parallax scrolling -- Creating enemies -- Summary -- 5. Putting Things into Perspective -- Optimizing tile maps for top-down games -- Finding the visible tiles -- Moving the tile map -- Sorting the occlusion -- Sprite occlusion -- Level versus sprite occlusion -- Collision detection -- Player versus environment collisions -- Using a tile map editor -- Player versus sprite collision -- Talking to NPCs -- Fighting enemies -- The complete game -- Isometric tiles -- Drawing an isometric tile map -- Occlusion for isometric games -- Summary -- 6. Adding Levels to Your Games -- Implementing a multi-file game -- Loading tile maps -- Loading sprites and their behavior -- Using .ajax -- Loading a JSON file -- Loading a remote script -- Debugging calls to .ajax -- .done() -- .fail() -- Modifying our platform game -- Summary -- 7. Making a Multiplayer Game -- World of Ar'PiGi -- Managing the player's account -- Searching elements in the database -- Creating a new player in the database -- Keeping the player connected -- Logging the user into the game -- Keeping the players in sync -- Retrieving all the other players -- Updating the current player position -- Client-side code -- Taking care of monsters -- Implementing server-side combat -- Summary -- 8. Let's Get Social -- Creating a simple leaderboard -- Saving highscores -- Retrieving highscores -- Displaying the highscores -- Making cheating harder -- Server-side verification -- Making your variables less readable -- Obfuscating your code -- Making your network protocol less readable -- Encoding values -- Randomly naming the variables -- Adding random variables -- Integrating with Twitter.

Twitter for dummies -- Full access to Twitter's API -- Registering your game with Twitter -- Server-side helper library -- Authentication -- Publishing high scores on Twitter -- Integrating with Facebook -- Authenticating with Facebook -- Creating achievements -- Publishing the achievements -- Summary -- 9. Making Your Game Mobile -- Making your game run well on mobile devices -- Detecting mobile browsers -- Client-side browser detection -- Server-side detection -- Should you really detect the browser? -- Performance limitation - memory -- Performance limitation - speed -- Specifying the page's visible area -- Level of details -- Touch control -- D-pad -- Analog joystick -- Event handlers -- Integrating our game with the springboard -- Making your game installable -- Configuring the status bar -- Specifying the application icon -- Specifying a splash screen -- Using device orientation -- Using the offline application cache -- Using web storage -- Summary -- 10. Making Some Noise -- Abstracting audio -- Using our small library -- Embedding sound -- Implementation -- Supported format -- HTML5 Audio element -- Preloading a sound -- Playing and stopping sounds -- Web Audio API -- Basic usage -- Connecting more nodes -- Loading more than one sound -- So many nodes, so little time -- Delay node -- ScriptProcessor node -- Panner node -- Convolver node -- Analyser node -- DynamicCompressor node -- BiquadFilter node -- WaveShaper node -- Flash fallbacks -- SoundManager 2 -- Alternatives to SoundManager -- Generating sound effects -- Summary -- Index.