Making Browser Games Series contains several sections. It starts with a Game Overview into the goals, game ludology, workstation set-up and generation tools. In a matter of hours, you will have a working game prototype for this game's mechanics. All that remains is to add your own artwork and additional game features; over the next few days, you have a completed game ready to deploy in the "apps" stores. The second half of this tutorial demonstrates how to integrate several game genres with this simple Collapsing Block game.
This particular pamphlet leads you to construct a Collapsing Block casual game. Then, it integrates the Collapsing Blocks game mechanics into a highly addictive RPG Adventure game of exploration and survival. You need this pamphlet as a foundation to integrate collapsing blocks puzzles into various game genres.
You'll find detailed working examples, with dozens of illustrations and many concepts you can freely apply into your own gaming projects. All the source code annotations enhance the book's explanation.
What you'll learn:
By the end of this workbook, you'll have integrated into your own game designs:
- Adopted processes for business project management and agile software development.
- Organized a standard file structure for developing games in general;
- Used a blank game template to scaffold further game projects;
- Imported resources and game assets;
- Displayed, animated and moved game avatars on various screen renderings;
- Deployed heads-up display (HUD) on game scenes both inside and outside the canvas;
- Used customized web fonts;
- Incorporated multiple game-inputs (touch, multi-touch, accelerometer, mouse, and keyboard);
- Rendered several physics systems in v2;
- Included graphics effects (gfx) (particle systems, rotations, fades, shaders and more);
- Created and managed game state-phases;
- Managed permanent game assets across state-phases;
- Optimized your game for various mobile devices;
- Integrated 3rd-party scripts, plug-ins, and services for v2.
- Deploy single- and multi-player games.
- Web Sockets demystified for scalable massive online game deployments.