Saturday, September 13
11:50 am – 12:20 pm
Recreating Nostalgic Computer Games
You don’t have to be a ‘game developer’ to build games on the open web – HTML, CSS, and JavaScript can take you a long way. Whether its a recreation of Spider Solitaire or Tetris, client-side games are full of complex logic and a lot of it involves DOM manipulation and tracking states of different elements. We’ll go through the process of planning out the different elements a game will require and exploring the DOM and various logic pitfalls that one can come across. We’ll also touch on topics such as strategies for generating and managing repeating elements, and how to persist game state between browser sessions, while going through the process of recreating one of these classic games.
Sara GoreckiSpeaker