JavaScript basics: Build your first game - Online Workshop

🚨 IMPORTANT: Make sure you follow the setup instructions that will be sent before the workshop.

We're happy to welcome back Florian for the 5th edition of our popular retro gaming workshop!

Are you interested in how computer graphics or video games work, but always thought that it must be overly complicated? Or you were scared by the plethora of frameworks and didn't know where to start?

Join us for a special introduction on game development, and code a simple retro game in only 2 hours!

We will use a very simple "retro" style of framework, show you how to turn a serious text-mode computer into a fun interactive experience, move stuff on the screen over a playfield according to the keybaord input, and how to replicate some classic graphical effects.

During this workshop, we will be:
• Giving a quick introduction on retro games
• Making a little game together: showing a playfield, and a controllable character over it
• Explaining the basics of collision, movement and gravity
• Making it more interesting with simple animation

Prerequisite 🎒

• Basic JavaScript notions
• GitHub account (to be able to fork a boilerplate)
• Git & Node.js installed on your computer

Setup 💻

On Windows

1) If you don't have node.js, you can install it easily through scoop (http://scoop.sh). Run powershell (start menu, type powershell, enter) and run the following:

Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -scope CurrentUser
iwr -useb get.scoop.sh | iex

2) Then you can run from the same terminal:

scoop install nvm
nvm install 8
nvm use

3) You may also need Git for Windows: https://gitforwindows.org/

On Mac

1) You may need to install homebrew (https://brew.sh/). Open a terminal and type:

/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

2) After that you can install node:

brew install nvm
nvm install 8

On Ubuntu Linux (you can adapt to your distribution easily, tested on Ubuntu 21.04):

1) We need node version 8. You can install versions of node side by side using NVM. If you don’t have NVM installed, you can install it this way. Open a terminal and run the following commands, one after the other:

sudo apt install curl
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/master/install.sh | bash

2) Restart your terminal (close it and open another instance). Type the following:

nvm install 8
nvm use 8

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