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Make Animated Retro Games with JavaScript
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About Make Animated Retro Games with JavaScript
Project 1 Introduction
Project 1 features
Project setup
Game and player objects
Keyboard controls
Object pool
Enemy Waves
Collision detection
Score and status text
Restart method
Beetlemorph enemy class
Sprite animation explained
Animation timing
Player animation
Extra features: Armored enemies
Rhinomorph enemy class
Extra features: Boss battles
Boss class
Boss movement
Boss vs player collision
Extra features: Super weapons
2 laser classes
Laser damage
Resource management
Eaglemorph enemy class
Enemy projectiles
Projectile interactions
Squidmorph Enemy Class
Lobstermorph Enemy Class
Project 2: JavaScript Planet Defense
Project 2: Planet and Game Class
Project 2: Mouse Position
Project 2: Player Spaceship
Project 2: A Little Bit of Math
Project 2: Understand Canvas Rotation
Project 2: Debug Mode
Project 2: Object Pool
Project 2: Player Projectiles
Project 2: Enemy Pool
Project 2: Collision Detection
Project 2: Periodic Events
Project 2: Asteroid Enemy
Project 2: Sprite Animation
Project 2: Lobstermorph Enemy
Project 2: Game Text
Project 2: Player lives
Project 2: Beetlemorph Enemy
Project 2: Rhinomorph Enemy
Project 3: JavaScript Mobile Game
Project 3 Setup
Make Everything Responsive
Enemy Class
Object Pool Design Pattern
Periodic Triggers
Mouse Controls
Collision Detection
Touch Events
Game Text
Start Restart
Fullscreen Games
Simple Crew Members
Simple Enemy Type
Sprite Animation
Animation Timing
Debug Mode
Enemy Variety
Randomized Space Crew
State Management in Games
State Design Pattern
Sounds
What You Will Learn?
- Old is gold. Let's get inspired by the classic games from the 80's and add our own graphics and game features. In the first project we will explore the interstellar void and use 3 different weapon types to burn through swarms of space bugs of different types, some larger than the others. We will start with a game loosely inspired by the classic Space Invaders arcade and we will experiment with different additional features such as boss battles, super weapons and different enemy types.Let's explore object oriented programming with JavaScript and implement a useful set of basic 2D game development techniques such as object pool design pattern, sprite animation, timing and staggering techniques using timestamps and much more..
- Don't forget to download all the bonus gifts. Students of this course will get a pack of premium quality 2D game art, this time in a sci-fi space theme. You can also download the source code from multiple stages of the project, as we gradually add more features..
- We will implement multiple enemy types:.
- Beetlemorph - basic enemy, 1 hit is enough.
- Rhinomorph - armored enemy, multiple lives, multiple damage states.
- Mantismorph - massive boss size enemy, increasing pool of lives.
- Eaglemorph - when hit, it will sacrifice a body segment and it will spit it back.
- Squidmorph - inflatable alien bug, it can absorb our weapons.
- Lobstermorph - unstable DNA, splits into multiple smaller clones when hit.
- Have fun!.