Car Racer JavaScript Game Exercise Vanilla JavaScript
What you'll learn
- Create a car racing game from scratch
- Apply JavaScript and move elements within a page using JavaScript
- Detect overlapping collision between two elements
- Run animations within JavaScript
Course content
- Preview02:48
- Preview03:45
- Preview02:41
- 00:02Car images Download
- Preview04:48
- 06:16JavaScript Element Selection
- 05:14JavaScript Event Listeners
- 06:27Setup Player Car and Start Functions
- 00:37Source Code Index and CSS
- 05:06JavaScript Road Building
- 11:59Interaction with Keyboard
- 00:37JavaScript Source Code
- 05:30Update Dashboard Values
- 06:10Moving Road JavaScript
- 07:16Tweak moving road Side move
- 00:57Source Code
- 07:32Keep player on the road
- 01:03Source Code
- 10:18JavaScript Game Adding other Cars
- 07:02Making other cars move
- 08:59JavaScript Element Collision detection Element Overlap Detection
- Preview03:43
- 00:57Source Code
- Preview02:59
- 04:17Enemy collision detection Car hit Car Check
- 01:55Source Code
- 06:01Final Game Over Play JavaScript
- 04:12Next level Restart Game
- 10:49JavaScript Exercise Code Review and Overview
- 02:40Final Source Code
Requirements
- Fundamental JavaScript concepts
- Access to computer
- Use of editor to write code
- HTML and CSS knowledge
Description
Practice and learn more about JavaScript DOM while building a fun interactive car racing game from scratch.
No libraries, no shortcuts just learning JavaScript!
Source code is included to get you started quickly.
Prefect course for beginners to learn more about JavaScript!!! Step by step learning with all steps included
Fun and exciting way to learn and practice JavaScript.
Beginner JavaScript knowledge is required as 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.
Learn how to setup your gameplay area using HTML and CSS
Add JavaScript setting event listeners
Add Keyboard actions to move an html div using keyboard arrow keys
Run animationframe to change element position and respond to the users commands
Setup start game functionality
Create a dynamic JavaScript road
Create elements within JavaScript
Access the JavaScript Document Object Model to manipulate element properties
Setup and add values within an object to track location and move
Setup a dashboard to output variables for the user like score and speed
Add road movement
Track speed dynamically with braking and accelerating
Add other cars and have them move within the gameplay area
Check for element overlap and detect collisions
Score and extend gameplay
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.
Try it now you have nothing to lose, comes with a 30 day money back guarantee.
Start building your own version of the game today!!!!
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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