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Lou Willoughby
Lou Willoughby

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I built my first JS game! πŸŽ‰

I built my first Maze JavaScript game

I used;

  • Vue.Js framework,
  • JavaScript,
  • CSS

Maze Preview

I've recently been learning DOM manipulation and so I decided to put my knowledge to practice and built a little maze game using the skills I learnt and also learnt new ones along the way.

It's only small and silly BUT i'm super chuffed with it. There are definitely things I could improve on or do differently so if you do have a look at the code, I am always open to constructive feedback as it will only help me code better.

A few things I used to make my Maze;

  • To make the maze itself I used CSS Grid;
    CSS Grid
    This is something i'm still new to using but I felt it was the best way to get an even 6x6 grid.

  • I used mouseover effects to make the game more interactive, when you hit the 'wall' it shows this by turning red;
    Wall Hover Effect

  • You only win by going passed start, if you try to go to the finish via another entry it tells you that's cheating!
    No Cheating

  • There may be a little surprise or two along the way πŸ‘€

I hope you enjoy this as much as I had fun building it, you can win it's not a trick πŸ˜‰

GitHub Code: https://github.com/Louise-Ann93/mazegame
Game: https://mazegamepractice.netlify.app/

Enjoy 😊

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Tobias Nickel

this is a cute idea

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Mahmood Abbas

Nice idea, I would love to see something like random maze on each time I lose

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Justinmaker

Congratulations, this is a lot of progress.

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Matt Studdert

Love it! Nice work, Lou! πŸ™Œ

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Jackson Kasi

Great 🀞

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andrerodrigues • Edited

I too created a game. Code:
gitlab.com/andrerodrigues1/projeto-nave

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Roland Doda

Awesome job! I did something similar more advanced though. I solved TrustPilot challenge of a maze.

Since the game was boring though, I added a betting-like functionality and a challenge for developers to hack the APP -> github.com/Rolanddoda/pony-challenge

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alesbe

Using grid for this was so convenient! Also, if you start the maze, and instead of continuing, yo go outside and then, enter through the finish it counts it as a win, maybe changing MazeGame.started to false every time the cursor hovers outside the maze can fix it!

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Jon Wright

What challenges did you find that you didn't expect?

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Bukunmi Ransome-kuti

Yeah this happens on mobile also
Clicking start and immediately clicking finish will make an easy win.

Would be nice if the game implemented swipe gestures for mobile πŸ˜„
Great work still

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Irvin-Mx

Amazing!

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JUDESON JOBY

Nice game

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Nik

Keep it up

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Rehan javed

Very nice loved it.

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Mike

Likewise, if you go to start, pull back down to go off-maze and then come back on at finish, it'll say you've won.