Zero to Hero HTML5 Game Developer Bundle

Python is a language that is currently in extremely high-demand, and you can learn it the fun way through this course! With no prior programming experience necessary, this course will demonstrate core concepts you need to program in Python by building your own game, getting you up and running with Python in a way that’s both engaging and fun.

• Access 24 lectures & 3 hours of content 24/7
• Create a game similar to Crossy Road or Frogger
• Use the Pygame library to put together your first Python game
• Become familiar w/ concepts like variables, functions, conditional statements, & loops

Making games is a lot easier than you think. In this course, you’ll learn how to make HTML5 games that run in all browsers and Windows in just two and a half hours. You’ll create a Zelda-like action game demo from scratch using only JavaScript and HTML, regardless of your previous experience level.

• Access 28 lectures & 2 hours of content 24/7
• Create a basic game that can be embedded in any website & be played w/ a web browser
• Display a map & characters on the screen
• Move a player on this map
• Use collision detection to simulate the shooting of bad guys
• Add enemies & sound to your games

Real-time capabilities make sites like Facebook, Twitter, and most news sites a fully interactive, immersive experience for users, and keep them coming back for more. Over this course, you’ll learn how you, too, can make impressive web apps with real-time capabilities using Meteor.js, a full-stack JavaScript framework designed to drastically simplify development time and complexity. Before you know it, you’ll be building reactive user interfaces and allowing users to interact with your apps in real time.

• Access 71 lectures & 7 hours of content 24/7
• Create highly interactive, real-time Meteor web apps
• Store, retrieve, & manipulate data w/ MongoDB
• Understand user sign up, authentication, & proper data validation
• Learn how to structure the folders & files in your projects
• Give your apps extended powers w/ external community packages
• Style your apps w/ Bootstrap 3
• Integrate w/ the Phaser game engine to create real-time games

Learn about the Document Object Model (DOM) and how it gives you the power to develop interactive web pages and dynamic widgets powered by JavaScript and HTML5. With no prior experience in working with the DOM API needed, you’ll be given a fundamental understanding of the DOM, including how to inspect and manipulate a web page using your browser, retrieve and modify element attributes using the DOM API, and to insert elements programmatically to a web page. You’ll then be guided through three projects where you can put what you’ve learned into practice.

• Access 23 lectures & 2 hours of content 24/7
• Build an app designed to help people learn & memorize new words
• Learn the basics of HTML & CSS
• Design a list filtering app
• Build an interactive client-side form w/ various input methods & add behavior for different combinations of these inputs

When it comes to game creation, the best way to learn is simply by doing. Come to grips with the game dev essentials and develop new, in-demand skills as you learn how to create a “Frogger” style game that’s playable across multiple platforms. Dive in, and you’ll learn how to feature simple and intuitive game mechanics, including restart and win conditions, as well as fixed player movement.

• Access 13 lectures & 2 hours of content 24/7
• Familiarize yourself w/ Phaser 3
• Learn how to implement an intuitive UI & game controls
• Explore managing multiple sprites through Groups
• Dive into detecting user input & triggering character movement

Tower defense games are an ever-popular style, and make a great addition to any game developer’s portfolio. This course will show you how to build a complete, working tower defense game using Phaser 3, a modern, cutting-edge framework that is perfect for making HTML5 games. With JavaScript, ES6 and Node.js, you will create a game that scales to any device, and encourages repeat play by featuring progressively harder levels for the player to complete

• Access 15 lectures & 3 hours of content 24/7
• Add sprites & have them follow a set path
• Use multiple scenes to set up a UI
• Create a preloading & title scene
• Connect all the different elements to make a complete, playable game

Learning to code can seem perfunctory, but not if you’re working towards completing a hands-on project. In this course, you’ll master all things JavaScript–variables, objects, strings, and more–in the process of creating a multi-level game playable by other users and publishable to the app store of your choice.

• Access 43 lectures & 3 hours of content 24/7
• Get an overview of basic JavaScript: variables, objects, strings, etc.
• Understand how to use arrays, functions & methods
• Draw & animate within a canvas
• Utilize conditional statements: if/else, Boolean, etc.
• Master use of loops & events
• Consolidate your skills w/ a final challenge: creating a multi-level game

With the massive resurgence of classic, arcade-style games, knowing how to make your own platformer is a must for any game developer. The great news is that with Phaser 3, this is easier than ever before. This course will walk you through creating your own platformer game – similar to that of Donkey Kong or Super Mario Bros – completely from scratch! As you build the game, you will be given a grounded understanding of all of the basics of platformer game creation – knowledge that you can apply to creating your own unique game projects.

• Access 12 lectures & 2 hours of content 24/7
• Learn the basics of arcade physics
• Understand the difference between static & dynamic bodies
• Implement & animate walking and jumping mechanics
• Create a looped event
• Generate barrels which bounce off level edges