Uploaded April 2024 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
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Classic early arcade games were creative and simple enough to make a good beginner level coding project. Today we take a proven game concept and build your own version, using modern web technologies. Let's make grid-based games with JavaScript, from scratch. Have fun!
Advanced version with many more features: youtu.be/VOMpipAMZO4
🎨 Toolkit 🎨
We will use vanilla JavaScript, no frameworks and no libraries because we want to understand every line of code. (JavaScript, HTML canvas, object oriented programming, HTML5, CSS3)
🍄 Download Project Art assets 🍄
Grass tile (day): frankslaboratory.co.uk/downloads/139/grass_day.png
Grass tile (night): frankslaboratory.co.uk/downloads/138/grass_night.png
Magic berry: frankslaboratory.co.uk/downloads/139/magic_berry.png
Snake: frankslaboratory.co.uk/downloads/139/snake_zilla.png
IT ALL STARTED IN 1976 as a two player ARCADE videogame called Blockade. It inspired other arcade games like Surround and Dominos (1977).
The first home computer version called Worm followed in 1978. Mattel released Snafu in 1982. The same year Snake Byte was published for Atari computers and Nibbler, a single player arcade game.
Tron arcade and it's light cycles are a player versus AI variant of the snake game concept.
In 1991 there was Nibbles for MS-DOS and Rattler race was released the next year, where the snakes eat apples.
In 1997 it was chosen as a pre-set game for Nokia cell phones followed by Snake 2 in the year 2000.
Since then there were countless small flash games, with many different takes on the gameplay and graphics. Let's make our own version and add our own little contribution to the video game history.
Challenge: can you add shadow to the snake? It might be more difficult than it seems because the body is made out of individual segments.
If you want to SUPPORT me you can use the links below and get some one my EXTENDED classes! :)
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Extended version: udemy.com/course/make-grid-based-games-with-javascript/?referralCode=B9C9B27679B03F6F21FB
Classic early arcade games were creative and simple enough to make a good beginner level coding project. Today we take a proven game concept and build your own version, using modern web technologies. Let's make grid-based games with JavaScript, from scratch. Have fun!
Advanced version with many more features: youtu.be/VOMpipAMZO4
🎨 Toolkit 🎨
We will use vanilla JavaScript, no frameworks and no libraries because we want to understand every line of code. (JavaScript, HTML canvas, object oriented programming, HTML5, CSS3)
🍄 Download Project Art assets 🍄
Grass tile (day): frankslaboratory.co.uk/downloads/139/grass_day.png
Grass tile (night): frankslaboratory.co.uk/downloads/138/grass_night.png
Magic berry: frankslaboratory.co.uk/downloads/139/magic_berry.png
Snake: frankslaboratory.co.uk/downloads/139/snake_zilla.png
IT ALL STARTED IN 1976 as a two player ARCADE videogame called Blockade. It inspired other arcade games like Surround and Dominos (1977).
The first home computer version called Worm followed in 1978. Mattel released Snafu in 1982. The same year Snake Byte was published for Atari computers and Nibbler, a single player arcade game.
Tron arcade and it's light cycles are a player versus AI variant of the snake game concept.
In 1991 there was Nibbles for MS-DOS and Rattler race was released the next year, where the snakes eat apples.
In 1997 it was chosen as a pre-set game for Nokia cell phones followed by Snake 2 in the year 2000.
Since then there were countless small flash games, with many different takes on the gameplay and graphics. Let's make our own version and add our own little contribution to the video game history.
Challenge: can you add shadow to the snake? It might be more difficult than it seems because the body is made out of individual segments.
If you want to SUPPORT me you can use the links below and get some one my EXTENDED classes! :)
udemy.com/course/build-animated-physics-game-with-javascript/?referralCode=B4482AF631243104650B
udemy.com/course/learn-game-development-with-javascript/?referralCode=69874A38D543D7F510F2
udemy.com/course/remake-retro-games-with-javascript/?referralCode=2ACCA21F16FE78E631F7
udemy.com/course/learn-creative-coding-with-vanilla-javascript/?referralCode=7C560D4661C5C59262BB
udemy.com/course/creative-coding-deep-dive-for-beginners/?referralCode=F43E8FCE60957A64DF4A
udemy.com/course/learn-html-canvas-pixels-particles-physics/?referralCode=F7977062A4BC964A1F5E
udemy.com/course/learn-html-canvas-advanced-text-effects/?referralCode=4C5821D2D04048CC4A01
Get Skillshare FREE for 1 month:
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![Vanilla JavaScript Text Animation Tutorial [Particles & Physics effect]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/XGioNBHrFU4/mqdefault.jpg "Vanilla JavaScript Text Animation Tutorial [Particles & Physics effect]
Improved extended version with full source code and source code for 10 bonus variations here https://www.udemy.com/course/learn-html-canvas-advanced-text-effects/?referralCode=4C5821D2D04048CC4A01
Lets take any letter, word or a sentence and in three steps convert it into interactive particles effect. All in Vanilla JavaScript, no frameworks and no libraries.
In todays vanilla JavaScript text animation tutorial we will learn how to give particles some motion physics and apply forces such as friction and acceleration, then we will get the particles to form any shape we want, in this case letter shapes, and connect individual particles with lines similar to famous particles.js library, but we will use no libraries, everything we build today is from scratch using just plain vanilla JavaScript. I will explain all the code line by line as I always do.
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More pixel manipulation tutorials, including updated and improved version of this codebase:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYElE_rzEw_t0 arG7_fu1uqkwOht1Jg
Some of my favorite UDEMY courses:
Object-oriented Programming in JavaScript https://bit.ly/3f4Otu0
Creative:
How to Program Games: Tile Classics in JS for HTML5 Canvas https://bit.ly/2ZUfKuG
Next Level CSS Creative Hover & Animation Effects https://bit.ly/3jEkzju
CSS / Webdev skills:
The Web Developer Bootcamp (Older but still very relevant) https://bit.ly/2ZZJM0d
Modern HTML & CSS From The Beginning (Including Sass) https://bit.ly/2Ec6Cch
Advanced CSS and Sass: Flexbox, Grid, Animations and More! https://bit.ly/3g0uqxT
Vanilla JavaScript from beginner to advanced:
JavaScript Basics for Beginners https://bit.ly/32Tn5wq
JavaScript: Understanding the Weird Parts (Basic JavaScript rules that will never change, must know) https://bit.ly/2WVe0zn
The Complete JavaScript Course 2020: Build Real Projects! https://bit.ly/3fXGwaZ
Modern JavaScript From The Beginning https://bit.ly/3fWJgWk
Related videos:
https://youtu.be/afdHgwn1XCY Animated Particles from any image
https://youtu.be/d620nV6bp0A Particles JS effect with no libraties
This vanilla JavaScript text animation tutorial will have 3 main parts, in the first part we will create particles randomly spread around canvas and we implement some physics on them. We will apply forces like friction and acceleration and give each particle different weight to make the movement more realistic.
Then in the second part of this video we will take these particles and shape them into letters or images, both is possible with the code we will build today
And lastly in the third section we will take famous constellations effect from particles js library and we will connect particles that are near enough to each other with lines but we will not use any libraries, we will write our own vanilla JavaScript code that does that.
This tutorial is part of a series - Creative coding with vanilla JavaScript and HTML canvas COMPLETE PLAYLIST:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGJ9i6CYKyQ&list=PLYElE_rzEw_siuo-kkHh5h7Sk 6IPYNh
Tools every front-end web developer needs:
Adobe Creative Cloud (Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator) https://bit.ly/3e60cI0 (official Adobe website to buy Creative Suite applications)
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Check out some of my source code on CODEPEN https://codepen.io/franksLaboratory
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