NPC variety in JavaScript Games (tutorial)

Video games should be exciting, full of challenges and unexpected surprises. These techniques will allow you to introduce monster variety to your JavaScript games and give each of your enemy critters different visuals, movement and behaviours. Today we will build a fun beginner friendly animation project with HTML5, CSS3, plain vanilla JavaScript and HTML canvas element. This course is for beginner front end web developers and creative coders interested in game development and game design.

⭐️Course Contents ⭐️
00:00 Course intro
01:00 Project setup HTML, CSS, canvas
03:00 Code structure overview
06:24 DOMContentLoaded and Load events
07:21 timing with timestamps & deltatime
10:41 Main enemy class
11:45 How to add enemies to our game
14:52 Converting global variables into class properties
17:20 Periodic events
20:55 Using filter array method to remove old objects
23:05 Creating a sub class with extends keyword
24:32 Constructor on child classes
27:37 JavaScript ID syntax experiment
29:06 How to draw images on HTML canvas
33:40 Array sort method
36:12 Ghost class
37:23 Random enemy types
39:57 Extending class methods on child classes
45:36 Spider class
49:57 Sprite animation with drawImage method

Learn JavaScript and front end web development by building games with me. Today we we will talk about:
- sub classing in JavaScript, how to use 'extends' and 'super' keywords to create monster variety in your JavaScript games
- how to keep your game code organised using encapsulation and good object oriented practices
- how to use timestamps and delta time to make sure our game runs at the same speed on different machines
- how to use drawImage built in HTML canvas method to animate sprite sheets
- and I will share many other small tips and trick as we go along
Have fun! :)

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Art by https://bevouliin.com/ check out his website for more game art assets :)
Download project sprite sheets:
🐛 worm: https://frankslaboratory.co.uk/downloads/enemy_worm.png
👻 ghost: https://frankslaboratory.co.uk/downloads/enemy_ghost.png
🕷 spider: https://frankslaboratory.co.uk/downloads/enemy_spider.png

Game Development with JavaScript, basics for beginners:
Tutorial 1: Sprite animation https://youtu.be/CY0HE277IBM
Tutorial 2: Parallax backgrounds https://youtu.be/Mg7ibYWhjPI
Tutorial 3: Character animations and movement https://youtu.be/pyhb8Y9qKUI
Tutorial 4: Collision detection between Rectangles https://youtu.be/r0sy-Cr6WHY
Tutorial 5: Collision detection between Circles https://youtu.be/rtBCVe3j_24
Tutorial 6: Triggered event based animations https://youtu.be/Eg_zUEy_lDE
Tutorial 7: Raven game https://youtu.be/gCa0z4B-CRo

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🎮 More HTML5 canvas and JavaScript game tutorials:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYElE_rzEw_sowQGjRdvwh9eAEt62d_Eu

If you are a BEGINNER you can still create beautiful animations, here is a selection of my beginner friendly projects, where I go slower and take time to explain things:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYElE_rzEw_v8TXJ_ITSSBP_ypUKfQ7K-

If you feel more confident in your coding skills, check out some more ADVANCED ANIMATIONS with vanilla JavaScript & HTML5 canvas:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYElE_rzEw_siuo-kkHh5h7Sk--6IPYNh

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