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This book is an introduction to development with HTML5 game engines, an in-depth look at some popular engines, downloadable example projects for each engine, and techniques on how to package and distribute the final app to all the major platforms.
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Part II
HTML5 Game Engines
Chapter 3
Crafty
3.1 Source Code
All of the source code and examples are available at the website http://HTML5GameEnginesBook.com/. All the code, graphics, and sound are licensed free for personal and commercial use (MIT and CC-BY-3.0). Crafty is dual licensed MIT or GPL.
3.2 Introduction
Crafty is an open-source JavaScript game library developed by Louis Stowasser [54]. It renders to either Canvas or DOM. Its emphasis is on being lightweight and easy to use. For that reason, it is a good candidate to rewrite the Pong game from the previous chapters.
In this chapter, not only do we rewrite Pong, we will introduce a few more HTML5 considerations and best practices that are more fitting to be discussed here than in Part I.
3.3 Crafty Pong
Our previous Pong game was completed in just a few hundred lines. This time around, we want to have audio and graphics. Our new game will be called Crafty Pong. When finished, Crafty Pong will have a similar line count as before, but it will support far more features. The code itself also will look completely different, as it will have essentially been rewritten from scratch. One problem with game engines is that they have their own way of doing things, which means very little code gets reused. Crafty is no exception. Therefore, it is important to find an engine that...
Table of contents
- Preliminaries
- Dedication
- Preface
- How to Use This Book
- About the Author
- Acknowledgments
- I HTML5 Game Development
- II HTML5 Game Engines
- III HTML5 App Distribution
- Tools Appendix
- Bibliography
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