We are twin brothers who were born right at the beginning of the 1970s just about the same time the first video games were being created and marketed by people like Nolan Bushnell at Atari and Ralph Baer for Magnavox. While we did not know of these video game advances at the time, something exciting was obviously in the air in those years. As far back as we can remember, we have wanted to make our own games. We grew up just like most suburban kids of the 1970s--riding bikes, playing guns and ditch 'em at the school yard, and staying out all day only to come home when the street lights came...

Foundation HTML5 Canvas: For Games and Entertainment teaches you how to make exciting interactive games and applications using HTML5 canvas.

Canvas lets you produce graphics, animations, and applications using the HTML5 and JavaScript web standards. It allows you to draw directly within the browser without the need for third-party plugins like Adobe Flash, and so canvas works perfectly across desktop and mobile devices, like the iPhone and Android.

Foundation HTML5 Canvas begins by introducing you to HTML5 and the cool new features that it opens up for you. You are...