JavaScript Game Development: Create a Zombie Horde Game
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If you need to practise your JavaScript…
If you want to learn some new ES6 stuff…
If you have ever wanted to create a cool zombie shooter game…
Then this course is for you!
You will get experience using:
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JavaScript
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ES6
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Classes
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Arrays
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Objects
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Functions
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Pixi.js
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Animation
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Sprite-sheets
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Git
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Netlify
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Github
Creating a zombie shooter game is fun and a great way to learn some JavaScript fundamentals.
The game includes:
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Animations
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Basic Enemy AI
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Audio
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Input Handling
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Particles
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Game State
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Collision detection
If you have a computer and an internet connection, you have all you need to take this course! You don’t need any expensive software and you certainly don’t need any drawing or musical ability since all assets are provided. Of course if you want to use your own art and music… you can!
In less than 5 minutes you will be drawing images on a web page and in less than an hour you will have a working prototype!
You will then go on to create the full game with awesome graphics, music and sound!
Once you have created your game, I will show you how to easily deploy your game to the internet for everyone to enjoy. The game can be used as part of your resume or portfolio and will really make you stand out since it’s not another boring ‘To Do List’!
Full source code is included.
I hope you enjoy the course!
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2Get Started Quickly!Video lesson
CodeSandbox - https://codesandbox.io/s/snowpack-pixijs-0-76wuq
Github template - https://github.com/morganpage/snowpack-pixijs
https://www.snowpack.dev/
http://victorjs.org/
Get up and running with pixi.js in 1 minute.
Learn the basics of pixi.js. In this video we will be using CodeSandbox and a template to get up and running in 1 minute.
Also we are using snowpack for near instant refresh after our code changes.
Pixi.js is a great choice for creating 2D games for the web. Less opinionated than Phaser and easier to use than WebGL, pixi.js is actually used by other game engines including Phaser.
This tutorial shows you how to draw a square and rotate it in the direction of the mouse cursor. This is a start of a series that goes on to create a horde style zombie game where the player has to fight off, you guessed it, hordes of zombies!
What's our vector, Victor?
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3Spawning ZombiesVideo lesson
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4A Moving ZombieVideo lesson

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