“Deadcity” Documentation by “Code This Lab S.r.l.” v1.0

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“Deadcity”

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Table of Contents

1. Description
2. Folder Contents
3. Getting Started
4. HTML Structure
5. CSS Files and Structure
6. Source Code
7. Game functions
8. Change Graphic
9. Disable Sounds
10. Wordpress Plugin

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A) Description - top

Dead City is a HTML5 Shooting Game. Dozens of evil zombies are crowding the city! Shoot them all down to the last and survive as long as possible!

The ZIP package contains the game with 960x576 resolution that scales to fit the whole screen device
Just warning that for very wide screens, the game may not be perfectly full screen. The game is fully compatible with all most common mobile devices.
Sounds are enabled for mobile but we can't grant full audio compatibility on all mobile devices due to some well-know issue between some mobile-browser and HTML5. So if you want to avoid sound loading, please read Disable Sound section).
WARNING: Sounds can't be enabled for Windows Phone as this kind of device have unsolved issues with 'audio' and 'video' tag.

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B) Folder Contents - top

The item package contains the following folders:

• ctl_arcade_wp_plugin:
  This folder contains the game version (zip file inside) that can be used with wordpress plugin CTL Arcade
  
  
• game:
  This folder contains the full source code that you can edit as you need.
  
  
• live_demo:
  This folder contains the obfuscated version of the game. WARNING: you should use this version if you don't have to edit the original game.
  
  
• readme:
  This folder contains the readme of the game.

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C)Getting Started - top

To install the game just upload on your server the game folder live_demo.

• Game Embedding: The proper way to embed the game is in a full-screen web page or in an iframe.
  In the first case the game will fit the screen size, in the second, that of the iframe.
  If the iframe size matches that of the screen, the game will fit accordingly.
  The alignment will be proportioned to the aspect ratio of the game.
  To install the game in a WordPress website, we suggest to use our plugin CTL Arcade .
  
  
• Localization: You can easily change game text for different languages, changing string in CLang.js

                                    var TEXT_PRELOADER_CONTINUE = "START";
                                    var TEXT_SCORE = "SCORE";
                                    var TEXT_CREDITS_DEVELOPED ="DEVELOPED BY";
                                    var TEXT_ERR_LS = "YOUR WEB BROWSER DOES NOT SUPPORT STORING SETTING LOCALLY. IN SAFARI, THE MOST COMMON CAUSE OF THIS IS USING 'PRIVATE BROWSING MODE'. SOME INFO MAY NOT SAVE OR SOME FEATURE MAY NOT WORK PROPERLY.";
                                    var TEXT_SHARE_IMAGE = "200x200.jpg";
                                    var TEXT_SHARE_TITLE = "Congratulations!";
                                    var TEXT_SHARE_MSG1 = "You collected ";
                                    var TEXT_SHARE_MSG2 = " points!

Share your score with your friends!";
                                    var TEXT_SHARE_SHARE1 = "My score is ";
                                    var TEXT_SHARE_SHARE2 = " points! Can you do better";
                                    var TEXT_ARE_SURE = "Are You Sure?"

                                    var TEXT_HELP = "Click to Shoot";
                                    var TEXT_HELP2 = "Click to Reload";
                                    var TEXT_WAVE = "Wave: ";
                                    var TEXT_YOUR_SCORE = "You killed: ";
                                    var TEXT_YOUR_SCORE2 = " Zombies!";
                                    var TEXT_YOUR_SCORE3 = "You survived: ";
                                    var TEXT_YOUR_SCORE4 = " Waves!";
                                    var TEXT_YOUR_SCORE5 = "Your Final Score is: ";
                                    var TEXT_YOUR_SCORE6 = "Your Best Score is: ";
				

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D)HTML Structure - top

This game have the canvas tag in the body. The ready event into the body calls the main function of the game: CMain().
The head section declares all the javascript functions of the game. The whole project uses a typical object-oriented approach.
In the init function there are 8 mapped events that can be useful eventually for stats

Game option: You can easily customize game setting when creating a new instance of the game in index.html file

					var oMain = new CMain({
											audio_enable_on_startup:false, //ENABLE/DISABLE AUDIO WHEN GAME STARTS 
											fullscreen:true, //SET THIS TO FALSE IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SHOW FULLSCREEN BUTTON
											check_orientation: true,     //SET TO FALSE IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SHOW ORIENTATION ALERT ON MOBILE DEVICES
											
											aZombieOnStage:             //THIS IS WHERE THE OCCURENCES ARE SET, AFTER THE LAST ONE THE OCCURENCES ARE FIXED, 
															[[100, 0, 0, 0],
															 [80, 20, 0,0],
															 [75, 15, 5, 5],
															 [10, 10, 80, 0],
															 [50, 35, 0, 15],
															 [45, 35, 0, 20],
															 [0, 0, 70, 30],
															 [25, 45, 0, 30],
															 [0, 60, 10, 30],
															 [0, 0, 50, 50],
															 [5, 35, 30, 30]
															],       
															
											iPlayerHealth: 5, //SET HOW MANY HIT THE PLAYER CAN TAKE
											aZombieHealth: [1, 2, 1, 3], // SET HOW MANY SHOT EACH ZOMBIE CAN TAKE
											aAmountZombiesOnStage: [8, 18, 28, 39, 50, 62, 73, 84, 95, 95, 95], // SET THE NUMBER OF ZOMBIES FOR EACH WAVE, AFTER THE LAST ONE THE NUMBER IS FIXED
											iWaveInterval : 1.5, //HOW MANY SECONDS WE WAIT BETWEEN WAVES
											iSpawnInterval : 1, // HOW MANY SECONDS WE WAIT BETWEEN ZOMBIE SPAWNS
											iZombieOnScreen : 4 //MAXIMUM NUMBER OF ZOMBIES VISIBLE ON SCREEN
					});
				

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E) CSS Files and Structure - top

The game use two CSS files. The first one is a generic reset file. Many browser interpret the default behavior of html elements differently. By using a general reset CSS file, we can work round this. Keep in mind, that these values might be overridden somewhere else in the file.

The second file contains all of the specific stylings for the canvas and some hack to be fully compatible with all most popular mobile devices

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F) Source Code - top

This game contains:

1. jQuery
2. Our custom scripts
3. CreateJs plugin
4. Howler Sound library

1. jQuery is a Javascript library that greatly reduces the amount of code that you must write.
2. The game have the following js files:
   • CMain: the main class called by the index file.
     This file controls the sprite_lib.js file that manages the sprite loading, the loop game and initialize the canvas with the CreateJs library
   • ctl_utils: this file manages the canvas resize and its centering
   • sprite_lib: this class loads all images declared in the main class
   • settings: general game settings
   • CLang: global string variables for language localization
   • CPreloader: simple text preloader to show resources loading progress
   • CMenu: simple menu with the play button
   • CGfxButton: this class create a standard button
   • CToggle: this class create a standard toggle button
   • CTextButton: this class create a standard text button
   • CGame: this class manages the game logic
   • CInterface: this class controls game GUI that contains text and buttons
   • CPlayer: this class manages all the info about the player such as ammo and health
   • CZombie: this class manages a single zombie.
   • CEndPanel: this class is a simple panel that show you score at the end of the game.
   • CHelpPanel: this class is a simple panel that show how to play.
   • CTweenController: this class manages the tweening function for zombie movement.
   • CCreditsPanel: this class is a simple panel that display info about the creator of the game.
3. CreateJs is a suite of modular libraries and tools which work together to enable rich interactive content on open web technologies via HTML5.
4. Howler is a javascript Audio library.

Resuming, the complete game flow is the following:

1. The index.html file calls the CMain.js file after ready event is called
2. The main class calls CPreloader.js to init preloader text and start sprite loading
3. When all sprites contained in "/sprites" and "/sounds" folder are loaded, the main class removes the preloader and calls the CMenu.js file that shows the main menu
4. If the user click the Play button in main menu, the CGame.js class is called and game starts
5. CGame.js creates than the stage, and instantiate the max possible CZombie.js class that is possible and call the main game loop using the Update() function
6. In the main game loop are handled the camera bobbing, the background looping and the general game states ("Waiting For Wave", "In-game", "GameOver")
7. Each CZombie.js class listen for the mouse or touch click on its sprite and then communicate with CGame.js its state
8. If the user click on the exit button in the down-right corner, the game returns to the menu screen

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G) Game functions - top

In this section will be explained all the most important functions used in CGame.js file.

• _init()
  This function attach on the canvas some game sprites like background (oBg)and the GUI.
• setOccurrences()
  This function set the Occurences for each type to zombie according to what is set in index and what Wave are we.
• spawn()
  This function choose a random type of zombie from the occurences and then spawn a Zombie of that type.
• Shoot()
  This function is called when a click is performed and then tells the CPlayer class that we have to remove ammo, and refresh the GUI.
• getScore()
  This function returns 3 value: zombie killed, wave survived and the score.
• unload
  This function is called when user want to exit from the game.
• gameOver()
  This function is called when game is over.
• update()
  This function manages the main game loop based on the current state.

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H) Change Graphic - top

You can easily change all the game graphic, replacing all the file you need in the "/sprites" folder. Just respect file format (.png or .jpg) and size if you don't want to change any code line.

I) Disable Sounds - top

If you want to disable all the sounds for mobile devices, you have to change the following value in settings.js file:

var DISABLE_SOUND_MOBILE = true;

J) Wordpress Plugin - top

CTL Arcade will allow you to add a real arcade on your worpress website, in this way your users will be more involved and will stay connected longer.

It's possible to add Ads banner at the beginning of each game and at the end of each level. This will give you a new tool to increase your revenues.

Your own users will promote your website sharing their scores on the main Social Networks, with no extra costs for you.

You'll get by default the score-sharing on Twitter. To add Facebook just follow the guideline below.

3 widgets can be added in your pages through a shortcode.

• Game iframe
• Rate the Game
• Leaderboard

Minimum Requirements:

• PHP 4.3
• WordPress 4.3.1
• HTML5
• Canvas
• Javascript / jQuery

This plugin is designed to work only with games built by Code This Lab.

You can find it here!

Once again, thank you so much for purchasing this game. Feel free to contact us if you have any questions or issue relating to this game. No guarantees, but we'll do our best to assist.

CODE THIS LAB S.R.L.

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