Skip to content
Hallway
0:00 / 0:00

#snakegame#vanillajavascript#canvasapi

Coding "Snake" in 4 min 30 sec (plain browser JavaScript)

Chris DeLeon of Dev Pods (was HomeTeam GameDev)

107K subscribers • 1 video on Hallway

YouTube
  • Recommended by 2 people: 1 on Lobsters and 1 in engineering communities.
  • A classic. People kept recommending it from 2017 to 2020.
  • Presented by Chris DeLeon, founder of HomeTeam GameDev
  • May be out of date. Uploaded 9 years ago, in an area where tools change fast.

Beginner. No background in the topic needed.

8M views9 years ago2 recommendations

Game developmentWeb developmentJavaScriptGame programming

Chris DeLeon live-codes a complete Snake game in vanilla JavaScript in under five minutes.

New way to learn game development online: HomeTeamGameDev.com (previously called Gamkedo Club) Free weekly tips in your inbox: GameDevTraining.com Free intro course: code-your-first-game.com The (hacky) Snake source: pastebin.com/Z3zhb7cY About InteractionArtist, my 219 daily prototypes: youtube.com/watch?v=BgZrBpSISS0

Why it's here

2 people recommend this

What people say. Recommended as an impressive and fast-paced demonstration of live-coding a classic game in plain JavaScript.

u/davesmith00000in r/scala • Recommends

On “What are you working on? October 12, 2020”

…(if you like games programming), and also a mildly embarrassing plug to see if there are any wannabe Scala game devs out there... ...but I genuinely thought this video of a guy live coding a Snake game, using rough n' ready JavaScript, in a plain text editor, while talking non-stop, in under 5 minutes flat was as nail biting as it was amazing: [video So I ported it to Scala.js: https://github.com/davesmith00000/snake-in-5-minutes-port Playable links... JS version: https://davesmith00000.github.io/snake-in-5-minutes-port/snake-js.html Scala version: https://davesmith00000.github.io/snake-in-5-minutes-port/ There's a write up in the repo readme file. Needless to say, it took me long…
5View on Reddit

riveron Lobsters • Recommends

Coding "Snake" in 4 min 30 sec (plain browser JavaScript)
3View on Lobsters