Game Design Blog
Things I've learned about designing games in HTML/Javascript and C
Building Asteroids for the web
Learn to build the arcade classic “Asteroids” from scratch as a web game. This requires a little knowledge of JavaScript; if you don’t know it, I recommend Eloquent JavaScript to help you get started.
0: WebAudio Basics
Start using oscillators to generate sound with WebAudio API in JavaScript. Not totally crucial to building Asteroids, so it's step “0”
1: Canvas Basics
Start drawing simple shapes with the HTML5 Canvas
2: The Game Loop
Learn the basics of handling framerate and regular updates to the game space
3: Control Schemes
Learn about adding keyboard and mouse controls to a game
4: Collisions
Learn about collision detection
Dev Bootcamp Blog
This is the blog I wrote as part of Phase 0 of Dev Bootcamp, sadly no longer operating as a web development bootcamp. During that time, I learned how to use Git version control, Ruby, HTML, and JavaScript for the first time. Some of these entries may be useful for anyone just starting to learn these skills, but they mostly just chronicle my journey as I took my first stumbling steps in the world of web development.
Git
Getting familiar with git, GitHub, and version control
Margins, Borders, and Padding
The differences between margin, border, and padding
Arrays and Hashes
Like solar arrays and twitter tags? Not really...
An Enumerable method: cycle
Ever wanted to iterate using times?
Ruby's So Classy
Classes and game design
Ruby vs JavaScript
Punctuation Terror
Computer Memory
Bits, bytes, and what you're actually doing with your variables
Building a Website
How I learned to start worrying about the DOM