HTML5 Game Development with GameMaker

Table of Contents

• Preface

• Chapter 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

• Chapter 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

• Chapter 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

• Chapter 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

• Chapter 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

• Chapter 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

• Chapter 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

• Chapter 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

• Chapter 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