JavaScript Game Development for Beginners: Sprite Animation

JavaScript Game Development for Beginners: Sprite Animation, available at Free, has an average rating of 4.85, with 8 lectures, based on 212 reviews, and has 6838 subscribers.

You will learn about How to use vanilla JavaScript to animate any sprite sheet for interactive web games and animation projects. This course is ideal for individuals who are Beginner JavaScript developers who want to practice their skills on fun interactive projects. It is particularly useful for Beginner JavaScript developers who want to practice their skills on fun interactive projects.

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Summary

Title: JavaScript Game Development for Beginners: Sprite Animation

Price: Free

Average Rating: 4.85

Number of Lectures: 8

Number of Published Lectures: 8

Number of Curriculum Items: 8

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 8

Original Price: Free

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

How to use vanilla JavaScript to animate any sprite sheet for interactive web games and animation projects.

Who Should Attend

Beginner JavaScript developers who want to practice their skills on fun interactive projects.

Target Audiences

Beginner JavaScript developers who want to practice their skills on fun interactive projects.

Do you want to build polished, beautiful JavaScript games and bring your game characters to life? Let me show you 2 of my favourite techniques you can use to get complete control over any sprite sheet. This is advanced vanilla JavaScript sprite animation, explained for beginners! Have fun 🙂

Adding animated sprite sheets to your JavaScript games is one of the fastest and the most impactful ways to bring your games to the next level and to add that professional look and polish you want. Games with sprites are great at pulling your audience into the fantasy you are trying to create and they are also really fun to make. Today I will show you everything you need to know about sprite animation with vanilla JavaScript and by the end of this course, you will be able to have complete control over any sprite sheet you choose.

I will show the easiest beginner friendly sprite animation technique first and then we will go a bit deeper and learn how to properly set up different player animations, so we can swap between them by changing just one variable and use it in our game. Do you want to learn more about 2D game development? Have you been learning HTML, CSS and JavaScript for a while and want to bring your front end web development projects to the next level? Then this course is for you. Let’s dive deep into JavaScript game development and learn about sprite animation together. This course is for beginners.

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Sprite animation with vanilla JavaScript explained

Lecture 1: Introduction, project preview, HTML CSS setup

Lecture 2: Basic JavaScript setup

Lecture 3: How to create animation loop

Lecture 4: Built-in drawImage() method explained

Lecture 5: How to navigate within sprite sheet with JavaScript

Lecture 6: Simple sprite animation technique for beginners

Lecture 7: Advanced sprite animation technique

Lecture 8: Sprite animation practice project

Instructors

Frank Dvorak
Front End Web Developer & Instructor at Frank's Laboratory

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