JavaScript Exercise - Tank Shooter Game from Scratch
What you'll learn
- Apply JavaScript and move elements within a page using JavaScript
- Run animations within JavaScript
- Create elements within the DOM
- Manipulate HTML elements using JavaScript
Course content
- Preview02:02
- Preview04:32
- 02:41HTML CSS page Setup
- 13:37Add Style and Elements HTML
- 00:16HTML source code
- 00:45CSS source Code
- Preview05:38
- 03:40Play the Game JavaScript
- 04:22Create a Tank CSS
- 03:55JavaScript Math CSS transform explained
- 07:40Move along with Mouse
- 03:38JavaScript Move Turret
- 00:26Source Code
- 10:10Shooter Bullets Create Elements JavaScript
- 03:43Remove elements from document JavaScript
- 00:41Source Code
- 17:29Setup Bad Guys JavaScript
- 01:11Source Code
- 07:23Moving Elements JavaScript Game
- 01:18Source Code
- 08:01JavaScript Element Collision detection
- 04:49Detect Collision with Player and Enemy
- 01:33Source Code
- 03:21Update Stats Dashboard values Element manipulation
- 05:48Game Over Function JavaScript
- 01:45Source Code
- 03:42Color the elements randomly JavaScript
- 04:53Blast the Bad Guys JavaScript Collision detection between two elements
- 02:41Final Game Tweaks and bug fixes
- 10:26Source Code Game Review
- 01:50Final JavaScript Source
- 00:13Source Code and Resources
Requirements
- Fundamental JavaScript concepts
- Access to computer
- Use of editor to write code
- HTML and CSS knowledge
Description
Practice and learn more about JavaScript while building a fun interactive tank shooting game from scratch. Prefect course for beginners to learn JavaScript!!! Step by step learning with all steps included. No libraries, no shortcuts just learning JavaScript!
Learn how you can use JavaScript to create, manipulate and make interactive HTML page elements. Using JavaScript scripting you can create a fully interactive dynamic game from scratch. Source code is included to get you started quickly.
This course is designed to help you practice JavaScript, you should have a functional understanding of the JavaScript language before taking this course. Please note that the course covers only JavaScript relevant to the building of the game. Also HTML and CSS knowledge is essential as scope of this course is all JavaScript focused.
Course covers
- Learn how to setup your gameplay area using HTML and CSS
- Setup page elements and prepare variables.
- Create interaction with JavaScript event listeners to invoke functions on mouse actions
- Run animationframe to change HTML elements style attributes and calculate positions of shots and enemies
- Calculate angles for the turret to follow the mouse movements and shot in the angled direction of where the mouse is.
- Create elements using JavaScript and add/remove them from the page
- Setup start game functionality with values to create game play
- Access the JavaScript Document Object Model to manipulate element properties
- Setup a dashboard to output variables for the user like score and life left
- Setup helper functions to reuse within the game play
- Check for element overlap and detect collisions which is essential for any game.
All this is included and a whole lot more.
Along with friendly support in the Q&A to help you learn and answer any questions you may have.
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Start building your own version of the game today!!!!
See what you can build while you practice JavaScript!
Who this course is for:
- Beginners to JavaScript
- Anyone who wants to practice writing JavaScript
- Anyone who wants to learn to make a JavaScript game without any libraries
- Web developers
- Webmasters
Instructor
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