What you need for this book

In order to follow most of the game examples in this book, you need to have a modern web browser and a code editor. You may install Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, or Internet Explorer 10. The default Safari browser from Mac OS X also works like a charm.

In some projects, we used Adobe Flash to create graphics assets and animations. The graphics are exported into image files and a file named assets.js. Adobe Flash is not required to go through these projects. However, if you need to modify the source graphics, you will need Flash CC.

Ideally, we prefer a web server to host the game project. We do not use any server-side logic in this book. Any static web server should work. Optionally, opening the game HTML file directly from the filesystem will work.