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

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

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.

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

• 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