Game Development with JavaScript: Creating Tetris

Gain insights into game development with JavaScript. Delve into graphics, game loops, and collision detection by creating Tetris. Showcase your skills with a fully functioning game.

Beginner

27 Lessons

5h 30min

Certificate of Completion

Gain insights into game development with JavaScript. Delve into graphics, game loops, and collision detection by creating Tetris. Showcase your skills with a fully functioning game.

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This course includes

12 Playgrounds

10 Quizzes

This course includes

12 Playgrounds

10 Quizzes

Course Overview

In this course, you will get hands-on game development experience with JavaScript. Using the classic game of Tetris, you are going to cover concepts like graphics, game loops, and collision detection. By the end of this course, we will have a fully functioning game with points and levels. Try it out with your friends and put it in your portfolio for employers to see.

Course Content

Course Overview

Get familiar with creating a Tetris-inspired game and enhancing your JavaScript skills.

Who is This Course for?

Modern JavaScript

Unpack the core of modern JavaScript features including variables, classes, functions, & destructuring.

Getting Started With Tetris

Explore the project structure, board design, and canvas interactions for creating Tetris.

Styling the Game

The Board

Canvas

Moving Pieces

Break down the steps to manage Tetrominoes, user interaction, and piece rotation.

Tetrominoes

User Interaction

Rotation

Game Logic

Solve problems in game logic for smooth gameplay, collision detection, and randomized tetrominoes.

Gamification

4 Lessons

Follow the process of integrating proxies, scoring, levels, and high scores to enhance Tetris gameplay.

Asynchronous JavaScript

4 Lessons

Master the steps to efficiently handle asynchronous tasks in JavaScript using callbacks, promises, async/await, and server-side high score management.

Final Words

1 Lesson

Learn how to use advanced JavaScript for game development and further exploration.

Course Author

Trusted by 1.4 million developers working at companies

Anthony Walker

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Evan Dunbar

ML Engineer

Carlos Matias La Borde

Software Developer

Souvik Kundu

Front-end Developer

Vinay Krishnaiah

Software Developer

Eric Downs

Musician/Entrepeneur

Kenan Eyvazov

DevOps Engineer

Souvik Kundu

Front-end Developer

Eric Downs

Musician/Entrepeneur

Anthony Walker

@_webarchitect_

Evan Dunbar

ML Engineer

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