Makzan - HTML5 games development by example: beginners guide: create six fun games using the latest HTML5, Canvas, CSS, and JavaScript techniques

Makzan is the founder of 42games Limited. He has been designing games since he was a child. He likes to see how the well-designed interactions in his games can trigger the emotions and influence the player. He believes that games should let a player share joyful times with friends. Therefore, his favorite game type is multiplayer casual games.

Makzan also wrote a book named Flash Multiplayer Virtual World . It is about developing a virtual world to play with friends in real time with Adobe Flash and socket server.

I would like to thank the entire team from Packt Publishing. The book would not have been possible without the help from all the editors and proofreaders. I thank all the reviewers for providing useful comments from which I have learned a lot. I thank my family for giving me support during the book writing process.

Matteo Ferretti is a software engineer, an amateur comic-book artist, and an occasional graphic designer, who was drawn into software development since he played his first video game.

He fell in love with JavaScript at the end of the 20th century, and he still loves it with the same passion.

Currently he is working for Mozilla, after more than two years in TomTom as a Senior Software Engineer and Tech Leader.

I wish to thank my love, Elisa, for her patience and understanding. I also want to thank my parents, for their continuous support throughout my whole life.

Henk Jurriens is a software developer and developer evangelist, experienced with Java, Groovy and Grails, and HTML5. Henk is passionate about new technologies and loves to talk about it, and so gives different presentations about HTML5, Linked Data, and Groovy and Grails.

In addition, Henk founded an HTML5 User Group to promote and share knowledge about HTML5. During the year, different meetups are organized. Together with the Google Technology User Group, he organized for example, a HTML5 Hackathon.

Last year, Henk also helped with a HTML5 Game Jam and there he saw the potential of HTML5 Games and this was the reason for him to review this book. With the help of this book, great HTML5 games can be built!

William Malone is a software developer specializing in dialects of ECMAScript (ActionScript and JavaScript). He has written many articles about Flash and HTML5 which are available at http://www.williammalone.com.