HTML5 Game Development Insights is a from-the-trenches collection of tips, tricks, hacks, and advice straight from professional HTML5 game developers. The 24 chapters here include unique, cutting edge, and essential techniques for creating and optimizing modern HTML5 games. You will learn things such as using the Gamepad API, real-time networking, getting 60fps full screen HTML5 games on mobile, using languages such as Dart and TypeScript, and tips for streamlining and automating your workflow. Game development is a complex topic, but you don't need to reinvent the wheel. HTML5 Game Development Insights will teach you how the pros do it.
The book is comprised of six main sections: Performance; Game Media: Sound and Rendering; Networking, Load Times, and Assets; Mobile Techniques and Advice; Cross-Language JavaScript; Tools and Useful Libraries. Within each of these sections, you will find tips that will help you work faster and more efficiently and achieve better results.
Presented as a series of short chapters from various professionals in the HTML5 gaming industry, all of the source code for each article is included and can be used by advanced programmers immediately.

HTML5 Game Development Insights

Computers & Technology

Bennett, Sean

McAnlis, Colt

Smith, Tyler

Lubbers, Peter

Howard, Jon

Mazur, Andrzej

Garcia, Bruno

Lin, Shun

Popelyshev, Ivan

Ballantyne, Ian

Kihira, Takuo

Freeman, Jesse

Olmstead, Don

Gauci, Jason

McCutchan, John

Austin, Chad

Pagella, Mario Andres

dErfurth, Florian

Tebbs, Duncan

Jones,Brandon

Games & Strategy Guides

Apress

If you want to attract and retain users in the booming mobile services market, you need a quick-loading app that won’t churn through their data plans. The key is to compress multimedia and other data into smaller files, but finding the right method is tricky. This witty book helps you understand how data compression algorithms work—in theory and practice—so you can choose the best solution among all the available compression tools.
With tables, diagrams, games, and as little math as possible, authors Colt McAnlis and Aleks Haecky neatly explain the fundamentals. Learn how compressed files are better, cheaper, and faster to distribute and consume, and how they’ll give you a competitive edge.
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<li>Learn why compression has become crucial as data production continues to skyrocket</li>
<li>Know your data, circumstances, and algorithm options when choosing compression tools</li>
<li>Explore variable-length codes, statistical compression, arithmetic numerical coding, dictionary encodings, and context modeling</li>
<li>Examine tradeoffs between file size and quality when choosing image compressors</li>
<li>Learn ways to compress client- and server-generated data objects</li>
<li>Meet the inventors and visionaries who created data compression algorithms</li>
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Understanding Compression: Data Compression for Modern Developers

Haecky, Aleks

Computer Science

O'Reilly Media

On the fast track. In the corner office. In the right place at the right time. You undoubtedly know people who epitomize these sayings, as if their career is on a constant upward trajectory and nothing can bring them down, in spirit or success. They're calm, happy-impactful. Perhaps you want to be this person; perhaps you once were this person. No matter where you are now or how you feel about your progress, you can make changes to get out of survival mode and onto the path toward your true potential. You just need a plan. &#65279; In Plan, Act, Impact, Colt McAnlis shows you how to let go of cynicism, gain traction, and achieve the goals that matter to you. By introducing you to his step-by-step approach for charting your unique course, Colt shows you how to escape the mania of the moment, establish objectives, and recognize the impact you can make (and how to make it). Finding your place in the workforce can be a difficult journey, especially when the right mentors are hard to come by. Let Colt be your mentor and give you the tools you need to succeed and the mindset to know that you can.

Plan, Act, Impact: A Playbook to Elevate Your Perspective and Unstick Your Career

Business & Money

Job Hunting & Careers

Lioncrest Publishing

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