Master the most important skills and techniques you need to know for
professional HTML5 and JavaScript 2D game development. This book delves
into many of the great classic techniques of video game design.
You'll discover how to develop games and game levels using Tiled Editor,
how to implement tile-based collision, how to design advanced
pathfinding and enemy AI systems, the fundamentals of broad-phase
collision, and how to make isometric games. All the techniques and
supporting code are explained in an easy-to-understand manner and
written in a general way so that they can be applied to any game engine
or technology that you're comfortable using.
You'll find detailed working examples, with dozens of illustrations and
many concepts you can freely apply to your own projects. All the math
and programming techniques are elaborately explained and examples are
open-ended to encourage you to think of original ways to use these
techniques in your own games. You can use what you learn in this book as
the basis for making games for desktops, mobile phones, tablets, or the
Web.
The Advanced Game Developer's Toolkit is a great next step if you
already have some JavaScript game-making- experience, or a great
continuation if you've already read Advanced Game Design with HTML5 and
JavaScript by the same author.
What You'll Learn
- Work with advanced tile-based design techniques for puzzle, platform
and maze games
- Use Tiled Editor to build game worlds
- Build path-finding and AI systems using Line of Sight and A* (A-Star)
- Make isometric games
- Manage complexity to build games of any size that scale seamlessly
Who This Book Is For
Video game developers with some experience who want to learn the
essential techniques they need to know to take their skills to the next
level and for readers who want to understand and fine-tune every line of
code they write, without resorting to quick fixes.
