Chapter  6

Your First Game: Alien Turtle Invasion

The time has come to put everything we have gone over in the previous chapters into practice and see how these all work together to work as a game. I follow the development steps I have laid out, including leveraging some open source graphics and sounds to add to the game experience. There is a lot of code in this chapter, but the game only requires your browser, so there is no server setup involved.

This game could be easily made into a game that you can play on Facebook. Most of the development effort for your HTML games will be on the JavaScript side of the equation, and I have found that segregating the development of a game from integration and deployment on the Facebook platform helps ...

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