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How I (Accidentally) Made a Game Engine from Scratch with Vanilla JS

Isa Levine on April 24, 2019

UPDATE 7/29/19: "The Fire Mage" is now deployed on Heroku! Check it out here: https://the-fire-mage.herokuapp.com/ The game engine in a...
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florent giraud

Hello i am actually trying to integrate your work in VueJS app and nodeJS / typescript backend api. I will come back when it's finish :)

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Isa Levine

Oooo please do! And please let me know if there's any clarification I can provide, I know the code's a little scatter-brained right now! :)

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florent giraud

we can do some live coding if you want it could be faster :) let me now

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Darcy Rayner

This is really cool. If you want to dive off the deep end with this stuff, my all time favorite book on software engineering in general is called Game Engine Architecture. Word of warning though, it's a rabbit hole.

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Nick Shulhin

Awesome! Was always interested in a plain JS implementation of game logic 👍

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Michael Gale

Love this, thanks for the share!

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AnanthNB

Noice!