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A JavaScript Game Exercise Built from Scratch to Catch Objects [Video]

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Learn
  • Build a simple interactive JavaScript-based game
  • Apply JavaScript animations
  • Apply and practice JavaScript
About

This course will take you on a journey where you’ll learn and practice JavaScript by building a fun interactive game from Scratch. We’ll explore animation functionality and you’ll see how to apply it within your code to make things happen. You’ll learn a lot of things such as how to set up a basic game structure page, connect your keyboard key presses to movement of an element within your HTML, move elements, and construct bounding values and a lot more. Source code is also included.

Style and Approach

The course is designed to practice JavaScript in the context of building a game!

Features
  • Explore setting up a basic game structure page
  • Add in the various variable for tracking of values
  • Connect your keyboard key presses to movement of an element within your HTML
  • Add collision detection checks to determine if elements have crossed paths
  • Move elements and construct bounding values
  • Add self-moving objects for the player to interact with
  • Complete scoring tweaks updates and more
Course Length 1 hour 43 minutes
ISBN9781789610260
Date Of Publication 13 Aug 2018

Authors

Laurence Svekis

Laurence Svekis is an instructor. He has 18+ years' work experience in web development, providing smart digital solutions online for both small and enterprise level businesses. An experienced web application developer, he has worked on multiple enterprise-level applications, hundreds of websites and business solutions, and many unique and innovative web applications. His web application development areas of expertise include HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery, Bootstrap, PHP, and MySQL—in short, anything to do with web creation and digital experience. He is passionate about everything to do with web application development and programming to online marketing with a strong focus on social media and SEO.