HTML5 Game Development with GameMaker电子书

HTML5 Game Development with GameMaker

Table of Contents

HTML5 Game Development with GameMaker

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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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. Getting to Know the Studio with Your First Game

Making HTML game development easy

Setting up the software

Our first look at the Studio

The Menu

The Toolbar

The Resource tree

The Workspace

Exploring the resource editors

Loading your art assets with the Sprite Properties editor

The wall sprite

The player sprite

Creating game objects with the Object Properties editor

The Wall object

The Player object

Creating worlds with the Room Properties editor

Running the game

Introducing code with the Script Properties editor

Filling the scene with the Background Properties editor

Bringing noise with the Sound Properties editor

A little background music

Controlling the game with the Overlord

The collectible

Writing text and the Font Properties editor

Creating complex movements with the Path Properties editor

Using the Time Line Properties editor to spawn collectibles

Tools for debugging your games

Using the HTML5 DEBUG console

Using the Windows version debugger

Taking a look at the JavaScript code

Summary

2. Triple 'A' Games: Art and Audio

Manufacturing art assets

Understanding the image file formats

Importing sprite sheets

Introducing the image editor

Creating backgrounds with tilesets

Animating and creating sprites

The illusion of action

Maximize the sprite space

Looping an animation

Manufacturing audio

Understanding the audio file formats

Using the GM:S Audio engine

Raising the quality bar

Consistency

Readability

Polish

Summary

3. Shoot 'em Up: Creating a Side-scrolling Shooter

Coding conventions

Building the player

Setting up the player sprite

Controlling the player object

Building the bullet

Firing the bullet

Removing bullets from the world

Constructing three little enemies

Making the enemy parent

Building the FloatBot

Creating the SpaceMine

Making the Strafer

Controlling the game with the Overlord

Spawning waves of enemies

Building the Overlord

Dealing with the life and death of the player

Setting up the win condition

Respawning with a Ghost object

Drawing the user interface

Adding the finishing details to the game

Adding the game music

Making the background move

Creating the explosions

Summary

4. The Adventure Begins

Creating animated characters

Simplifying the character movement

Implementing a melee attack

Navigating between rooms

Setting up the rooms

Creating Room Portals

Teleporting a persistent player

Bringing enemies to life

Summoning the Ghost Librarian

Building a wandering Brawl

Creating the Coach

Adding finishing details to the game

Summary

5. Platform Fun

Structuring systems-based code

Creating gravity

Building an animation system

Creating a collision forecasting system

Checking the keyboard

Building the player

Setting up the room

Building a boss battle

Creating the indestructible Gun

Constructing the first phase: The Cannons

Building the second phase: The giant LaserCannon

Setting the final stage: The shielded Boss Core

Winding it up

Summary

6. Toppling Towers

Understanding the physics engine

Activating the world

Defining properties with fixtures

Connecting objects with Joints

Applying forces to objects

Building a tower toppling game

Constructing the Pillars and Debris

Breaking the Pillars into Debris

Adding in the collision sounds

Building the demolition equipment

Creating a Wrecking Ball

Making a Magnetic Crane

Completing the game

Setting the win condition

Creating the Equipment Menu

Constructing the towers

Summary

7. Dynamic Front Ends

Setting up the rooms

Initializing the main menu

Selecting levels with 2D arrays

Preparing the Shop using data structures

Rebuilding the HUD

Adding risk and reward to destruction

Adding introductory text to each level

Saving the player's progress

Understanding local storage

Writing to local storage

Saving multiple game profiles

Summary

8. Playing with Particles

Introducing particle effects

Understanding particle systems

Utilizing particle emitters

Applying particles

HTML5 limitations

Adding particle effects to the game

Creating a Dust Cloud

Adding in Shrapnel

Making the TNT explosion

Cleaning up the particles

Summary

9. Get Your Game Out There

Releasing a game on your own site

Creating the application

Hosting the game

Uploading the game with FTP

Integrating with Facebook

Adding a Facebook login button

Tracking the game with Flurry Analytics

Setting up Flurry Analytics

Tracking events in the game

Sending the data to Flurry

Understanding the Analytics

Making money with your games

Summary

Index