JavaScript Short Subjects: Building a 2D Game Engine

by Roland Hess, D. Roland Hess

Award winning author Roland Hess brings you the first of several JavaScript short subjects. This one is for readers already familiar with the basics of JavaScript, HTML and CSS. It focuses on building the core of a timer-based game engine, entirely in JavaScript. Readers will develop a JavaScript-based engine that adapts to variable frame rates, uses sprites, demonstrates good software architecture and teaches some JavaScript best practices.

55 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 5, 2013

About the author

D. Roland Hess works in machine learning at Google, and has written about art and software for Focal Press, John Wiley & Sons, and Taylor & Francis, winning an American Publishers Association PROSE Award in 2011 for his book on character animation. He honed his craft in the Creative Writing program at UPenn, but gave up the potential glory of starving-artistdom for a career in production art and software development.

His hobbies include construction (carpentry, electrical work, sweating copper), weaponry, tending bar, cars that Go, writing software, playing piano and guitar, and occasional forays into art. He lives in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, the glorious Gateway to the Midwest.