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Book Let   s Build a Multiplayer Phaser Game

Download or read book Let s Build a Multiplayer Phaser Game written by Oscar Lodriguez and published by Apress. This book was released on 2018-12-05 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Create a fully working multiplayer game from scratch using TypeScript, Socket.IO, and the community edition of Phaser.js. You will achieve amazing feats in the browser without having to install any software. This book teaches you how to use the Phaser game engine APIs to tap into physics, and how to utilize HUD information and fire lasers. Let’s Build a Multiplayer Phaser Game dives into the details to show you how to create a multiplayer game from beginning to end. Once you have finished this book, you will be well versed in creating not only a game, but also an application that you can extend with new functionality to enjoy with your friends. What You'll Learn Discover the ins and outs of Socket.IO for real-time web communication Use TypeScript to allow your project to be typed and self-documenting See how gaming mechanics work to make a game entertaining Get a deeper understanding of how to structure your working directory and your code Scale what you have created Who This Book Is For Developers who want to know how to create and structure a complex online game

Book Let s Build a Multiplayer Phaser Game

Download or read book Let s Build a Multiplayer Phaser Game written by Oscar Lodriguez and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Create a fully working multiplayer game from scratch using TypeScript, Socket.io, and the community edition of Phaser.js. You will achieve amazing feats in the browser without having to install any software. This book teaches you how to use the Phaser game engine APIs to tap into physics, and how to utilize HUD information and fire lasers.

Book Making Multiplayer Online Games

Download or read book Making Multiplayer Online Games written by Stephen Gose and published by Scribl. This book was released on 2016-11-07 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book includes game design and implementation chapters using either Phaser JavaScript Gaming Frameworks v2.6.2, CE, v3.16+, AND any other JS Gaming Frameworks for the front- and back-end development. It is a Book of 5 Rings Game Design - "HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, and SQL". It further analyzes several freely available back-end servers and supporting middleware (such as PHP, Python, and several CMS). This game design workbook takes you step-by-step into the creation of Massively Multiplayer Online Game as a profitable business adventure - none of this theoretical, local workstation proof of concept! It uses any popular JavaScript Gaming Framework -- not just limited to Phaser.JS!! -- on the client-side browser interfacing into a unique, server-side, application using WebSockets. It is the only book of its kind since January 2017 for the Phaser MMO Gaming Framework! * Part I leads you through the world of networks, business consideration, MMoG analysis and setting up your studio workshop. I have 40 years of networking career experience in highly sensitive (i.e., Government Embassies) data communications. I am a certified Cisco Academy Instructor and have taught networking, networking security, game design/development, and software engineering for the past 14 years at the college level. * Part II Guides you into Multi-player Online Game architecture contrasted to normal single-player games. This lays the foundation for Multi-Player Game Prototypes and reviews a missing aspect in current MMoG development not seen in many online tutorials and example code. * Part III contains 3 chapters focused on production and development for the client-side code, client-proxy, server-side code, and MMoG app. This content sets the foundation for what many Phaser tutorials and Phaser Starter-Kits on the market today overlook and never tell you! Upon completion of Part III, you will have your bespoke MMoG with integrated micro-service, and if you choose, web workers and block-chain. * Part IV (Bonus Content) This section includes proprietary Game Rule Books and EULA source code included as a part of your book purchase. It features four (4) Game Recipes -- step-by-step instructions -- listed by complexity "1" = easiest (elementary skills) to "4" = most complex (requiring advanced skills across several IT technology disciplines). Each external “Walk-Through Tutorial” guides you in different aspects of MMoG development. * How to migrate single-player games into a 2-player online delivery mode (not using "hot-seat")! * How to use dynamic client-side proxy servers and migrate this game from its current single-player mode (with AI Bot) into an online 2-player mode (not using "hot-seat")! * How to include "Asynchronous Availability" during gameplay and migrate this gameplay mode (with AI Bot) into an online "Asynchronous Availability" 3-player mode using postal mail or email game turns! The FREE game rule book will help "deconstruct" this game mechanics.

Book Phaser js Game Design Workbook

Download or read book Phaser js Game Design Workbook written by Stephen Gose and published by Scribl. This book was released on 2017-12-02 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a different book format for game development -- unlike anything you have seen. As I create a generic game in html5 using phaser.js framework, **you develop your own game** by simply following and translating my easy concepts into your own game design. **When you complete this workbook, unlike other game development books, you will have your own game, not a game of the author's.** For example, if you have never created an online game in html5 and JavaScript, you might like to start with chapters 1 through 3 while a seasoned game developer might like chapters 4, 8, 11 and the appendix. The workbook's **appendix is a resource dictionary with all the open-source free assets on the Internet.** Each chapter guides you in [my decision/design process](http://www.stephen-gose.com) you see why I am choosing various business and software results -- all of this in well-commented source code so you can get it right away. In summary, you complete your own exciting game in your selected genre using the free open source Phaser JavaScript Gaming Framework and other JavaScript tools following this step-by-step workbook. The power of the Phaser JavaScript Framework is yours.

Book Phaser Game Prototyping

    Book Details:
  • Author : Stephen Gose
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2020-09
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 403 pages

Download or read book Phaser Game Prototyping written by Stephen Gose and published by . This book was released on 2020-09 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This workbook is the 6th edition - a hands-on tutorial guide for Game Prototype creations using Micro-services and component object programming with an emphasis on Phaser v2.x.x, CE, v3.16+ and any JavaScript Gaming Frameworks. Phaser Game Prototyping is a hands-on guide for making browser games using Phaser's official, CE (community edition) JavaScript Game Frameworks. Master the important skills and techniques you need for Phaser using our unique component object programming. This book delves into many of the great classic game mechanisms and design mechanics techniques. All written in a fun and friendly style with completed projects and open-ended exercises that encourage you to build your own game projects. You'll also download supporting tools to classify the book's snippets and add your own modification.Part I demonstrates basic game mechanisms and components from the Phaser JS Game Framework using the OLOO paradigm. It starts by showing you how you to build game mechanisms in any Phaser version! By the end of Part I, you'll have a complete, fully-functional Game Prototype , reusable components, and the supporting tools to manage further game production. You'll have a game character's visual and its meta descriptions. Learn to control your avatar through either the keyboard, mouse, or touch-screen interfaces. Develop game environments, create game scene migrations and then learn how to use collision detection within a standard game loops. Build dynamic menu response system, and an interactive game world. Part II demonstrates how to connect all your new game prototypes and components into various game mechanics using the raw power of native JavaScript OLOO. What I show you, will open the pathway to building a game within a month or even 7-days! This is not hipe; I eat my own dog food and have pushed game prototypes out for final artwork within 7 days. You'll learn to make RPG maze games, code 6 different combat systems, develop heads-up displays (HUD) that are both internal to and outside of the Phaser canvas, apply 6 different artificial intelligence systems, create tiled-maps with the Phaser features, and other fast-paced actions that cover all the popular game perspective of 2D and 2.5D gaming. I'll reveal what I'm doing with Phaser 3D and WebXR games too. You'll discover how to develop games and multi-level isometric scenes using existing features in Phaser v3.13+. All these techniques -- and supporting source code -- are explained in an easy-to-understand manner for game designers to gain new skills or simply update your skills from Phaser v2.x.x.You'll find detailed working examples on the book's website (with dozens of illustrations and many concepts) you can freely apply to your own gaming projects. All the source code comments 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;Managed groups of game objects;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;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 and services;Deploy single-player games.Web Sockets demystified for scalable massive online game deployments.

Book Game Programming Patterns

Download or read book Game Programming Patterns written by Robert Nystrom and published by Genever Benning. This book was released on 2014-11-03 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The biggest challenge facing many game programmers is completing their game. Most game projects fizzle out, overwhelmed by the complexity of their own code. Game Programming Patterns tackles that exact problem. Based on years of experience in shipped AAA titles, this book collects proven patterns to untangle and optimize your game, organized as independent recipes so you can pick just the patterns you need. You will learn how to write a robust game loop, how to organize your entities using components, and take advantage of the CPUs cache to improve your performance. You'll dive deep into how scripting engines encode behavior, how quadtrees and other spatial partitions optimize your engine, and how other classic design patterns can be used in games.

Book Functional Web Development with Elixir  OTP  and Phoenix

Download or read book Functional Web Development with Elixir OTP and Phoenix written by Lance Halvorsen and published by Pragmatic Bookshelf. This book was released on 2018-01-25 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elixir and Phoenix are generating tremendous excitement as an unbeatable platform for building modern web applications. For decades OTP has helped developers create incredibly robust, scalable applications with unparalleled uptime. Make the most of them as you build a stateful web app with Elixir, OTP, and Phoenix. Model domain entities without an ORM or a database. Manage server state and keep your code clean with OTP Behaviours. Layer on a Phoenix web interface without coupling it to the business logic. Open doors to powerful new techniques that will get you thinking about web development in fundamentally new ways. Elixir and OTP provide exceptional tools to build rock-solid back-end applications that scale. In this book, you'll build a web application in a radically different way, with a back end that holds application state. You'll use persistent Phoenix Channel connections instead of HTTP's request-response, and create the full application in distinct, decoupled layers. In Part 1, start by building the business logic as a separate application, without Phoenix. Model the application domain with Elixir functions and simple data structures. By keeping state in memory instead of a database, you can reduce latency and simplify your code. In Part 2, add in the GenServer Behaviour to make managing in-memory state a breeze. Create a supervision tree to boost fault tolerance while separating error handling from business logic. Phoenix is a modern web framework you can layer on top of business logic while keeping the two completely decoupled. In Part 3, you'll do exactly that as you build a web interface with Phoenix. Bring in the application from Part 2 as a dependency to a new Phoenix project. Then use ultra-scalable Phoenix Channels to establish persistent connections between the stateful server and a stateful front-end client. You're going to love this way of building web apps! What You Need: You'll need a computer that can run Elixir version 1.5 or higher and Phoenix 1.3 or higher. Some familiarity with Elixir and Phoenix is recommended.

Book Phaser by Example

    Book Details:
  • Author : Richard Davey
  • Publisher : Independently Published
  • Release : 2024-04-29
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Phaser by Example written by Richard Davey and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2024-04-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows you how to create video games with JavaScript using the most popular framework for the web: Phaser. Through different examples, you will learn how to develop games from the simplest to shooters, platformers, and even multiplayer games. It also contains a deep dive into the framework by the Phaser creator himself and useful tips about video game development that will help you improve your creative process. All source code (based on Phaser3) from the examples is available for download

Book Phaser Game Prototyping

    Book Details:
  • Author : Stephen Gose
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2017-02-25
  • ISBN : 9781980783930
  • Pages : 327 pages

Download or read book Phaser Game Prototyping written by Stephen Gose and published by . This book was released on 2017-02-25 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a hands-on guide for Game Prototype creations using the Phaser JavaScript Gaming Framework for either version 2.x.x or the newest released 3.x.x. As of February 2017, this book is the first and only available tutorial for Phaser v3.x.x and will continue to supplement version 3 as features become available. Therefore, if you purchased this book from LeanPub.com, you will have a continually updated version. If you are a customer from Amazon, you may access the latest information on the book's website.Phaser Game Prototyping is a hands-on guide for making browser games using Phaser's official, CE (community edition) and the new version 3.x.x (2018) JavaScript Game Framework. Master the important skills and techniques you need for Phaser version 3 now. This book delves into many of the great classic game mechanisms and design mechanics techniques. All written in a fun and friendly style with completed projects and open-ended exercises that encourage you to build your own game projects. You'll also download supporting tools to classify the book's snippets and add your own modification.Phaser Game Prototyping Part I demonstrates basic game mechanisms from the Phaser JavaScript Game Framework using "SCRUM-style sprints". It starts by showing you how you to build game mechanisms in both Phaser v2 and then in Phaser version 3! By the end of Part I, you'll have a complete, fully-functional Game Prototype with the supporting tools to manage further game production. You'll have a game character's visual and meta descriptions, learned to control your avatar through the keyboard, mouse, or touch-screen interfaces, developed a game environment, created game scene migrations and then learned how to use collision detection within a standard v2 and the improved version 3 game loops, built dynamic menu response system, to build an interactive game world. Phaser Game Prototyping Part II demonstrates how to connect all your new game prototypes into various game mechanics. What I show you will open the pathway to building a game in 7-days or a month. You'll learn to make RPG maze games, code 6 different combat systems, develop heads-up displays (HUD) that are both internal to and outside of the Phaser canvas, apply 6 different artificial intelligence systems, create tiled-maps with the new Phaser v3 features, and other fast-paced actions that cover all the popular game perspective of 2D and 2.5D gaming. I'll reveal what I'm doing with Phaser v3 in 3D games. You'll discover how to develop games and multi-level isometric scenes using new features in Phaser v3, and existing features in Phaser v2. All these techniques and supporting source code are explained in an easy-to-understand manner for game designers to gain new skills in Phaser v3 and update their skills in version 2.You'll find detailed working examples on the book's website with dozens of illustrations and many concepts you can freely apply to your own gaming projects. All the source code annotations enhance the book's explanation. You can begin your current game conversions into Phaser 3 now. Who This Book Is For:Students -- and professionals in -- game development with some experience in HTML5 and JavaScript who want to enhance -- or begin learning the essential techniques of -- Phaser v2 JavaScript skills into the next Phaser version 3 release. If you are interested in making browser games, especially for the mobile market, then Phaser Game Prototyping is a perfect choice.

Book Build a Game with UDK

Download or read book Build a Game with UDK written by Geoff Sholler and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A step-by-step tutorial to create an astounding game using the tools provided by UDK.This book is intended for people who aim to make an amazing virtual game with UDK. The goal of this book to give users a chance to expand their knowledge and create exciting games using the tools available.

Book Programming Linux Games

Download or read book Programming Linux Games written by Loki Software, Inc and published by No Starch Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains how to build a scrolling game engine, play sound effects, manage compressed audio streams, build multiplayer games, construct installation scripts, and distribute games to the Linux community.

Book TypeScript Quickly

    Book Details:
  • Author : Anton Moiseev
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2020-02-10
  • ISBN : 1638351430
  • Pages : 770 pages

Download or read book TypeScript Quickly written by Anton Moiseev and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-02-10 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Summary TypeScript is JavaScript with an important upgrade! By adding a strong type system to JavaScript, TypeScript can help you eliminate entire categories of runtime errors. In TypeScript Quickly, you’ll learn to build rock-solid apps through practical examples and hands-on projects under the expert instruction of experienced web developers Yakov Fain and Anton Moiseev. Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications. About the technology Strong typing can eliminate nearly all errors caused by unanticipated data values. With TypeScript, an enhanced version of JavaScript, you can specify types and type annotations so your code is easier to read and far less likely to fail at runtime. And because the core of TypeScript is standard JavaScript, it runs on all major browsers and can be used with frameworks like Angular, Vue, and React. About the book TypeScript Quickly teaches you to exploit the benefits of types in browser-based and standalone applications. In this practical guide, you’ll build a fascinating blockchain service app that takes you through a range of type-sensitive programming techniques. As you go, you’ll also pick up valuable techniques for object-oriented programming with classes, interfaces, and advanced features such as decorators and conditional types. What's inside Mastering TypeScript syntax Using TypeScript with JavaScript libraries Tooling with Babel and Webpack Developing TypeScript apps using Angular, React, and Vue About the reader For web developers comfortable with JavaScript and HTML. About the author Yakov Fain and Anton Moiseev are experienced web developers. They have authored two editions of Manning’s Angular Development with TypeScript. Table of Contents: PART 1 MASTERING THE TYPESCRIPT SYNTAX 1 ¦ Getting familiar with TypeScript 2 ¦ Basic and custom types 3 ¦ Object-oriented programming with classes and interfaces 4 ¦ Using enums and generics 5 ¦ Decorators and advanced types 6 ¦ Tooling 7 ¦ Using TypeScript and JavaScript in the same project PART 2 APPLYING TYPESCRIPT IN A BLOCKCHAIN APP 8 ¦ Developing your own blockchain app 9 ¦ Developing a browser-based blockchain node 10 ¦ Client-server communications using Node.js, TypeScript, and WebSockets 11 ¦ Developing Angular apps with TypeScript 12 ¦ Developing the blockchain client in Angular 13 ¦ Developing React.js apps with TypeScript 14 ¦ Developing a blockchain client in React.js 15 ¦ Developing Vue.js apps with TypeScript 16 ¦ Developing the blockchain client in Vue.js

Book Web Audio API

    Book Details:
  • Author : Boris Smus
  • Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
  • Release : 2013
  • ISBN : 1449332684
  • Pages : 76 pages

Download or read book Web Audio API written by Boris Smus and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2013 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Go beyond HTML5's Audio tag and boost the audio capabilities of your web application with the Web Audio API. Packed with lots of code examples, crisp descriptions, and useful illustrations, this concise guide shows you how to use this JavaScript API to make the sounds and music of your games and interactive applications come alive. You need little or no digital audio expertise to get started. Author Boris Smus introduces you to digital audio concepts, then shows you how the Web Audio API solves specific application audio problems. If you're an experienced JavaScript programmer, you'll not only learn how to synthesize and process digital audio, you'll also explore audio analysis and visualization with this API. Learn Web Audio API, including audio graphs and the audio nodes Provide quick feedback to user actions by scheduling sounds with the API's precise timing model Control gain, volume, and loudness, and dive into clipping and crossfading Understand pitch and frequency: use tools to manipulate soundforms directly with JavaScript Generate synthetic sound effects and learn how to spatialize sound in 3D space Use Web Audio API with the Audio tag, getUserMedia, and the Page Visibility API

Book Core HTML5 Canvas

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Geary
  • Publisher : Pearson Education
  • Release : 2012-05-14
  • ISBN : 0132761661
  • Pages : 752 pages

Download or read book Core HTML5 Canvas written by David Geary and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2012-05-14 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of HTML5’s most exciting features, Canvas provides a powerful 2D graphics API that lets you implement everything from word processors to video games. In Core HTML5 Canvas, best-selling author David Geary presents a code-fueled, no-nonsense deep dive into that API, covering everything you need to know to implement rich and consistent web applications that run on a wide variety of operating systems and devices. Succinctly and clearly written, this book examines dozens of real-world uses of the Canvas API, such as interactively drawing and manipulating shapes, saving and restoring the drawing surface to temporarily draw shapes and text, and implementing text controls. You’ll see how to keep your applications responsive with web workers when you filter images, how to implement smooth animations, and how to create layered, 3D scrolling backgrounds with parallax. In addition, you’ll see how to implement video games with extensive coverage of sprites, physics, collision detection, and the implementation of a game engine and an industrial-strength pinball game. The book concludes by showing you how to implement Canvas-based controls that you can use in any HTML5 application and how to use Canvas on mobile devices, including iOS5. This authoritative Canvas reference covers The canvas element—using it with other HTML elements, handling events, printing a canvas, and using offscreen canvases Shapes—drawing, dragging, erasing, and editing lines, arcs, circles, curves, and polygons; using shadows, gradients, and patterns Text—drawing, positioning, setting font properties; building text controls Images—drawing, scaling, clipping, processing, and animating Animations—creating smooth, efficient, and portable animations Sprites—implementing animated objects that have painters and behaviors Physics—modeling physical systems (falling bodies, pendulums, and projectiles), and implementing tweening for nonlinear motion and animation Collision detection—advanced techniques, clearly explained Game development—all aspects of game development, such as time-based motion and high score support, implemented in a game engine Custom controls—infrastructure for implementing custom controls; implementing progress bars, sliders, and an image panner Mobile applications—fitting Canvas apps on a mobile screen, using media queries, handling touch events, and specifying iOS5 artifacts, such as app icons Throughout the book, Geary discusses high-quality, reusable code to help professional developers learn everything they really need to know, with no unnecessary verbiage. All of the book’s code and live demonstrations of key techniques are available at corehtml5canvas.com.

Book Making Phaser 3 Dress Up Browser Games

Download or read book Making Phaser 3 Dress Up Browser Games written by Stephen Gose and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-18 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making Dress-up Fashions Games with Phaser III Series is a tutorial hands-on guide for creating online games using Phaser v3.15+ released edition. This tutorial is a single chapter focused on building a Dress-up Fashions game logic and mechanics. It is only one chapter in a series of 16+ great classic game mechanics techniques. I decided to sell each chapter separately. All tutorials in this series are written in a fun, friendly style with several completed game projects and open-ended exercises that encourage you to build include your own game assets and features. You also have access to bonus content downloads, supporting tools, and source code snippets to add your own modification. Making Dress-up Fashions Games is book 3 in this series and 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; then over the next few days, you will have a completed game ready to deploy in any "apps" stores. You'll find detailed working examples, with dozens of illustrations and many concepts you can freely apply to 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 v3.15+; - 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 v3.15+. - Deploy single- and multi-player games. - Web Sockets demystified for scalable massive online game deployments. Who This Book Is For: Students of -- and professionals in -- game art and animations with some experience in HTML5 and JavaScript who want to enhance -- or begin learning -- the essential techniques of game programming skills in both the Phaser v2.x.x official and community editions. If you are interested in making Dress-up Fashions Games, especially for the mobile market, then Making Dress-up Fashions Games Series is a perfect choice.

Book Multiplayer Game Programming

Download or read book Multiplayer Game Programming written by Josh Glazer and published by Addison-Wesley Professional. This book was released on 2015-11-20 with total page 721 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Practical Guide to Building Reliable Networked Multiplayer Games Networked multiplayer games are a multibillion dollar business: some games now attract tens of millions of players. In this practical, code-rich guide, Joshua Glazer and Sanjay Madhav guide you through every aspect of engineering them. Drawing on their immense experience as both game developers and instructors, the authors lead you through building a robust multiplayer architecture, and creating every engine-level system. You’ll learn through in-depth working code examples for two complete games: an action game and a real time strategy (RTS) game. First, Madhav and Glazer review the essentials of networking and network programming from the standpoint of game developers. Next, they walk through managing game data transmission, updating game objects across the network, and organizing the devices that join your game. You’ll learn how to ensure reliable performance despite the Internet’s inherent inconsistencies, and how to design game code for maximum security and scalability. The authors conclude by addressing two increasingly crucial issues: incorporating gamer services and hosting your games in the cloud. This guide’s content has been extensively tested through the authors’ multiplayer game programming courses at USC. It is equally valuable both to students and to working game programmers moving into networked games. Coverage includes How games have evolved to meet the challenges of networked environments Using Internet communication protocols and standards in game development Working with Berkeley Socket, the most widely used networking construct in multiplayer gaming Formatting game data for efficient Internet transmission Synchronizing states so all players share the same world Organizing networking topologies for large-scale games Overcoming latency and jitter problems that cause delays or lost data Scaling games without compromising performance Combating security vulnerabilities and software cheats Leveraging the networking functionality of the popular Unreal 4 and Unity game engines Integrating gamer services such as matchmaking, achievements, and leaderboards Running game servers in the cloud About the Website C++ source code for all examples is available at github.com/MultiplayerBook. Instructors will also find a full set of PowerPoint slides and a sample syllabus.

Book Roguelike Development with JavaScript

Download or read book Roguelike Development with JavaScript written by Andre Alves Garzia and published by Apress. This book was released on 2020-09-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Go on an adventure and build a roguelike from scratch using JavaScript. With the help of the battle-tested Phaser library, you’ll go through all the steps to build a small, fun, playable web roguelite game. The author will guide you on how to add further features to the game such as populating the game with enemies, adding treasures, and so on. You will acquire technical knowledge about procedural generation and tile-based mapping as well as learn game design skills such as what makes dungeons fun and how to evoke an emotion in your game. Roguelikes are very popular with indie developers because of their focus on gameplay over graphics. You’ll see why they appeal to game designers on a budget and discover that they serve as a good platform to experiment with novel ideas and designs. Along the way, you’ll cover the increasingly popular roguelite genre that provides a hyper casual form of the genre that is approachable and often mobile. After reading this book, you’ll be ready to create your own roguelikes, to dive deep into procedural generation, and also to bring some of the techniques shown here into other genres and game projects. What You Will Learn Make use of procedural generation for dungeons, mazes, monsters, and treasure Pick up skills to use Phaser to build games Implement turn-based mechanics Use tile-based graphics Who This Book Is For Game developers who want to build something fun and who have at least some prior JavaScript programming experience.