Simple HTML5 Game Development

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Updated on Dec 28, 2021

Course overview

Provider: Udemy
Course type: Paid course
Level: All Levels
Duration: 13 hours
Lessons: 64 lessons
Certificate: Available on completion
Course author: Andy Harris; Build a basic web page with HTML
Use CSS to add essential style to your page
Understand the main concepts of programming (variables, conditions, loops, branches, functions, and arrays) using JavaScript
Use JavaScript and the Document Object Model to build a basic interactive web page
Understand how a Scene works in the simpleGame library, and how that adds space and time elements to your game.
Build a basic Sprite object and learn how to build custom sprites to represent any game element you can imagine
Practice object-oriented programming to build complex and interesting game objects that can respond to user input, collisions, and other game events
Manage standard game events like input, boundary-detection and collisions
Manage sound effects
Learn to use the mouse and keyboard for basic user input
Explore how physics can be used for more interesting control like space vehicles, realistic acceleration, and skidding.
Extend your games to mobile platforms with touch and tilt input, and learn to add icons and full-screen behavior to your games
Learn not just the code, but the process of building your own game from idea to reality
Explore the simpleGame engine and see how it does all the magic. Learn how you can extend it yourself for even more power.

Description

Learn to build a complete web or mobile video game using HTML5. No previous programming or web development required.

Learn to build web and mobile games with HTML5. Even if you have no experience in programming or web development, you can create your own games.

This course begins with a quick overview of web development in HTML5 and shows you the basic web framework used in all modern pages. It then teaches essential programming concepts using the JavaScript language embedded in all modern browsers.

The course centers around a game engine designed especially to be easy to understand. The game engine and all the other tools needed for the course are completely free. You won't need to purchase anything to build great games.

By the end of the course, you'll be able to build 2D games on the web as well as on mobile devices like the iPad and mobile phones.

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