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bottom of your startGame function.
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HTML5 GameDevelopment meetups in Boston each month and runs the HTML5 Game
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ABOUT THE TECHNICAL EDITOR
CHRIS...
... the Device with the Game Engine 77
Designing the Game Engine 77
Implementing the Engine 79
CGameEngineBase 79
CGameObjectBase 85
CGameObjectGDIBase 87
CGameEngineGDIBase 88
CGameFunctions ... the Game Engine 289
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Building Games for the Windows Phone and
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■ ■ ■
Adam Dawes
CHAPTER 1 ■ WINDOWS MOBILE ... Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC SDK, Windows
Mobile 6 Professional SDK, and so on) or as new devices within an existing platform.
The easiest way to locate the updated SDKs is to search for them within...
... you with a fair share of my gamedevelopment experiences to show how
interactive games are made. I believe that learning to program is not at all about
memorizing API methods, yet a lot of game ... for great 2D games. The
majority of new games released on the iTunes App Store are still 2D-only games even
today. 2D games are generally easier to develop, and the algorithms in 2D games are ... 10: Working with Tilemaps 243
■Chapter 11: Isometric Tilemaps 269
■Chapter 12: Physics Engines 297
■Chapter 13: Pinball Game 321
■Chapter 14: Game Center 365
■Chapter 15: Cocos2d with UIKit...
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Testing a WRT widget 197
Testing with the Nokia S60 platform SDK emulator 197
Testing with Nokia S60 handsets 198
Testing with Aptana 199
Testing with RDA 200
Testing with Adobe Device Central 201
Deploying ... or creating video content 621
Tips for making great mobile device video content 622
Video Codec 411 625
Playback using device and Flash video 626
FLV, the most popular supported video format ... xxviii
PART ONE MOBILEDEVELOPMENT LANDSCAPE
Chapter 1 The Mobile and Device Landscape 3
Addressing fragmentation 4
Getting to know the devices 6
Mobile phones 6
Navigating the mobile phone development...
... Today’s mobile phone is now more than the sum of its parts. It is your connection
to the world.
The Players
As with any fast-moving market, there are many players with skin in the mobile game
at ... simplifies this somewhat with
their chain installers) getting started with Windows Phone requires much less effort.
In order to begin, you must download the Windows Phone SDK, which can be found
at ... the install, as well as various other packages to help out with
development.
There have been multiple releases of both the Windows Phone SDK and
versions of the operating system. This book is going...
... Flash Video (FLV) and Flash animation/interactivity (SWF)
formats would not be supported on iPhones, iPads, and other Apple mobile devices.
Instead, Apple has backed HTML5's audio and video ... interest
for designers.
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presenting the online video and audio, without resorting to different and competing ... the frameworks 248
Defining mobile application settings 249
Building and emulating apps 251
Testing mobile apps on your computer 252
Recipe: Building and emulating a mobile app 254
Summary 256
Index...
... 183
Previewing a video in BrowserLab 183
Recipe: Embedding an HTML5 video 184
Summary 187
Chapter 9: Creating Mobile Pages with jQuery 189
Mobile pages – An overview 190
Mobile pages, apps, and jQuery Mobile ... HTML5 Video in Dreamweaver 167
HTML5 video and Dreamweaver CS5.5 167
Early formats 168
Flash Video (FLV) 169
Apple devices and the web video 170
The wild world of native videos 172
Native video ... 180
Defining video attributes 180
Defining video source(s) 181
Alternate video for non-HTML5 environments 182
Putting it all together 182
Testing HTML5 video pages 182
Previewing a video in the...
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and Web Developmentwith
HTML5, CSS3, and jQuery
Harness the cutting edge features of Dreamweaver for
mobile and web development
David Karlins
BIRMINGHAM ... HTML5 Video in Dreamweaver, provides information about
embedding a variety of HTML5-compliant video formats to web pages using
HTML5 and Dreamweaver CS5.5.
Chapter 9, Creating Mobile Pages with ...
Dreamweaver for web and mobile development.
What this book covers
Chapter 1, Creating HTML5 Pages in Dreamweaver, begins with the exploration of
creating HTML web pages with Dreamweaver CS5.
Chapter...
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for our Concentration game.
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platform development. Moai SDK is a gamedevelopment framework that helps us
deal with this problem in an easy way using standard technologies...
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Word GamesThese games involve the creation ... money with the game.
Figure 1.3. Turibaka Kibun: A game that would only be possible on a mobile phone.
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, "Big Games,...
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