HTML5 allows you to create games that are lightweight, responsive, and completely cross-platform. Not only does it make building and updating games fast, but it’s also incredibly versatile, making it the perfect choice for both beginner and more experienced developers alike.
With the HTML5 Game Development Mini-Degree, you’ll code and create impressive 2D games with HTML5 and Phaser, the popular and powerful JavaScript library designed for rendering games across different platforms. You’ll learn by building real projects that will form a strong professional portfolio, and gain skills that will set you up for success as a game developer.
You will master:
- Cross-platform games with Phaser
- Physics, sprites, and tilemaps
- Animations and camera effects
- APIs for webapps and multiplayer games using Node.js and Express
- Async programming with JavaScript
- Memory-efficient game structures with Kontra.js
Curriculum
- Learn to code in JavaScript
- Building games in Phaser
- Collision detection
- Basic camera effects
- Interactive objects
- Input events
- Game audio
- Tween animations
- Using multiple scenes
- Basic folder organization
- Dragging and dropping
- Spritesheet animations
- Platformer mechanics
- Object spawning
- 2D physics engine
- Using the cursor keys
- Intermediate JavaScript
- APIs with Node.js & Express
- Games with Kontra.js
100% Beginner-Friendly
This curriculum gives you all the tools needed to develop HTML5 games – featuring introductory modules for those who have never coded before, to intermediate courses perfect for more experienced developers looking to branch out into new specializations, this Mini-Degree is designed to help you succeed.
Why Build HTML5 Games?
HTML5 is quickly becoming a must-know for developers, as it’s used throughout the world. Not only does HTML5 allow for cross-platform development, which is important given many gamers play on different devices, but it is also increasingly being adopted by other industries as the default markup language for their websites.
HTML5 games join the rest of the gaming industry is seeing vast amounts of revenue growth. Many popular games have also been made with HTML5 (or ported to HTML5) to take advantage of its ease of access and compatibility with evolving technologies!