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Canvas Sprite Sheet Animation
Having gone through moving shapes around screen, let’s bring our retro game tutorials up to date by about 10 years and look at sprite sheet animation. If you have been following the series of posts linked below, then this will add to what you have done so far and you will see some things being […]
Continue readingCanvas Snake Game Tutorial
Feeling nostalgic and looking to create your own phone game Snake? This game tutorial will show you how to create it using just a simple text editor and web browser. If you have been following the series of posts linked below, then this will add to what you have done so far and you will […]
Continue readingCanvas Basics – Arkanoid Game Tutorial
Whether you know it as Breakout, Arkanoid or any of the many names the game is known as, this tutorial will show you how to create Arkanoid using just a simple text editor and web browser. Over the last few posts, we have been looking at elements of code for gaming and we even created […]
Continue readingCanvas Basics – 09 More On Arrays
This is the ninth post in this series looking at the <canvas> element in HTML5. Each post will give a new element of snippet of code that can be put together to create your own games. So far we have covered the main elements needed to create a basic Pong-style tennis game. In this post, […]
Continue readingCanvas Game Tutorial Pong
After several posts about Canvas and game code, we are finally ready to put together our first game, Pong in this game tutorial. For those of you too young to remember 2d games or why it was so important for Marty McFly’s parents to kiss at the dance…. Pong is a basic tennis-style game. The […]
Continue readingCanvas Basics – 08 Bouncing And Deflecting
This is the eighth post in this series looking at the <canvas> element in HTML5. Each post will give a new element of snippet of code that can be put together to create your own games. So far we have displayed text on screen, looked at the mouse’s X and Y co-ordinates on the canvas, […]
Continue readingCanvas Basics – 07 Random Positions
This is the seventh post in this series looking at the <canvas> element in HTML5. Each post will give a new element of snippet of code that can be put together to create your own games. So far we have displayed text on screen, looked at the mouse’s X and Y co-ordinates on the canvas, […]
Continue readingCanvas Basics – 06 Collision Detection
This is the sixth post in this series looking at the <canvas> element in HTML5. Each post will give a new element of snippet of code that can be put together to create your own games. So far we have displayed text on screen, looked at the mouse’s X and Y co-ordinates on the canvas, […]
Continue readingCanvas Basics – 05 Limiting Movement To Canvas
This is the fifth post in this series looking at the <canvas> element in HTML5. Each post will give a new element of snippet of code that can be put together to create your own games. So far we have displayed text on screen, looked at the mouse’s X and Y co-ordinates on the canvas, […]
Continue readingCanvas Basics – 04 Move An Object Using The Keyboard
This is the fourth part of a series of posts looking at the <canvas> element in HTML5. I have been using the canvas element to create games and over this series of posts will look at some of the Canvas basics. This is a follow on from the posts looking at maths in games (click […]
Continue readingCanvas Basics – 03 Moving An Object
This is the third of a series of posts looking at the <canvas> element in HTML5. I have been using the canvas element to create games and over the next few posts will look at some of the Canvas basics. This is a follow on from the posts looking at maths in games (click here […]
Continue readingCanvas Basics – 02 Mouse Detection
This is the second of a series of posts looking at the <canvas> element in HTML5. I have been using the canvas element to create games and over the next few posts will look at some of the Canvas basics. This is a follow on from the posts looking at maths in games (click here […]
Continue readingCanvas Basics – 01 Hello World
This is the first of several posts looking at the <canvas> element in HTML5. I have been using the canvas element to create games and over the next few posts will look at some of the Canvas basics. This is a follow on from the posts looking at maths in games (click here to read […]
Continue readingMaths In Games Pythagorus and Trigonometry
This is the 4th post in my Maths In Games series, and this is covering the topic that started this whole series. The day I was working on coding a pinball game and I had to apply Pytagorean Theorem and I had a flash back to my school days where I had to sit through […]
Continue readingMaths In Games Variables and Physics
This is the 3rd post in the Maths In Games series. The previous posts have given a very brief overview of some of the ways that maths can be used in computer games. Had algebra been explained to me in school using examples of its use in games, it might have made things more interesting […]
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