Windows 8 presents an incredible opportunity for distributing and monetizing HTML5 games, and this guide shows how you can profit from it. You’ll learn everything you need to know about porting your original web-based JavaScript game to the new "touch-first" version of Windows, as well as several options for selling your game in Windows Store.Windows 8 is a big leap forward for developers because it treats HTML5 as a first-class citizen, alongside C# and C++. Interactive developmen...

Create a real 2D game from start to finish with ImpactJS, the JavaScript game framework that works with the HTML5's Canvas element. Making video games is hard work that requires technical skills, a lot of planning, and—most critically—a commitment to completing the project. With this hands-on guide, you’ll learn how to use Impact with other technologies step-by-step.You’ll pick up important tips about game design, and discover how to publish Impact games to the Web, desktop, and mo...

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 au...

Design, develop, and solve real-world automation and orchestration problems by unlocking Ansible's automation capabilities Key Features • Completely revised and updated for Ansible 4.0 and beyond • Tackle complex automation challenges with the newly added features in Ansible • Learn about the rapidly expanding field of network automation using Ansible, with the help of practical examples for configuring network devices Book Description Ansible is a modern, YAML-based automation tool (built...

Follow the amateurishly written tale chronicling the misadventures of a teenager. Read about Ronan as he's thrown into increasingly unlikely and improbable situations. Spend minutes wondering why no adults are watching these kids and keeping them safe. Contemplate whether you're really ready to invest yourself into a series written by a wannabe writer.

Lonely Planet's local travel experts reveal all you need to know to plan the trip of a lifetime in this latest edition of our guide to American South.Discover American South's most popular experiences and best kept secrets from getting back to nature and hiking up mist-shrouded peaks in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park; to exploring Miami's 1930's architectural glamour and old-fashioned eateries in Mid-Beach; and dancing the night away to world-class jazz in...

Advances in Ophthalmology and Optometry reviews the most current practices in both ophthalmology and optometry. A distinguished editorial board, headed by Dr. Myron Yanoff, identifies key areas of major progress and controversy and invites expert ophthalmologists and optometrists to contribute original articles devoted to these topics. Topics covered this volume include, but are not limited to, technology in the evolution of eye care, myopia, anti-VEGF medications in retinopathy of prematu...

The most accurate and honest retelling of my mom's headache that turned into the most impossible situation and the tough choices that had to be made as a result.

Design, develop, and solve real-world automation and orchestration problems by unlocking the automation capabilities of Ansible.Key FeaturesTackle complex automation challenges with the newly added features in Ansible 2.7Book DescriptionAutomation is essential for success in the modern world of DevOps. Ansible provides a simple, yet powerful, automation engine for tackling complex automation challenges. This book will take you on a journey tha...

Experience 13 common urban legends like never before. Expanded and retold in a way to really connect you to the story- are you brave enough to read them?

Vampires? Check. Werewolves? Check. Death prophecy to hang over your head? Double check. Seventeen year old Emma Hutchinson struggles to find her place in the world she has been born to as she tries to decide whether she should be with Michael, the boy she has been dreaming about since she was three or if she belongs with Dominic, her betrothed.

Discover the world through the eyes of Dominico DeDominico during one of his most trying moments.