Windows Store Games with the Platformer Game Starter Kit
Learn how to build games for Windows 8 using the Platform Game Starter Kit and JavaScript.
What you'll learn
This course will teach you, the first principles of how to build platform style games using the Platform Game Starter Kit, and the underlying Jaws.Js, Howler.Js, Tween.JS and Ludus libraries. The starter kit gives you an on-rails approach to platform game development, so you can get up and running quickly with building your own game, and using JavaScript you can easily customize the existing games or start your own from scratch.
Table of contents
- Part One: Create a Solution and Add a Level 2m
- Demo: Hands on Creating a Solution and Adding a Level 10m
- Part Two: Add a Player Sprite and Customize Ludus for it 3m
- Demo: Hands on in Coding the Player Sprite Parameters 9m
- Part Three: Editing your HTML, JS and CSS files for the PGSK 1m
- Demo: Hands on Coding and Configuring Your HTML, JS and CSS 7m
- Part Four: Editing Your Title and Message Screen Assets 4m
- Demo: Adding a new Title and Message Screen to Your Game 10m
- Part Five: Parallax, Backgrounds and Enemies 3m
- Demo: How to Add Backgrounds, Parallax and Enemies with AI 8m
- Part Six: Adding Sound with Howler 5m
- Demo: Using howler.js to do a Jump Sound 7m
About the author
Laurence Moroney is the owner of netNavi.tv and ios7Developer.com, a Seattle area consultancy, specializing in mobile and cloud development. With over 20 years development and architecture experience, he's excited to work on new projects in mobile, including iOS, Android and Windows Phone, as well as Cloud and Web, including Google's App Engine and Microsoft's Windows Azure. He's the author of several best selling computer books, including the "Introducing Silverlight" series, as well as books o... more