Articles Tagged game

GraphQL is a query language for APIs that is very empowering for front-end developers. As the GraphQL site explains it, you describe your data, ask for what you want, and get predictable results.

If you haven’t worked with it before, GraphQL might be a little confusing to grok at first glance. So, let’s build a multiplayer tic-tac-toe game using it in order to demonstrate how it’s used and what we can do with it.

First thing we need is … Read article “Multiplayer Tic Tac Toe with GraphQL”

This is an experiment to see how far into an interactive experience I can get using only CSS. What better project to attempt than a game? Battleship seemed like a good challenge and a step up from the CSS games I’ve seen so far because it has the complexity of multiple areas that have to interact with two players.

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Oh, you wanna learn how it works? Let’s dig in.… Read article “Building Battleship in CSS”

Among the many JavaScript APIs added in HTML5 was Drag and Drop (we’ll refer to it as DnD in this article) which brought native DnD support to the browser, making it easier for developers to implement this interactive feature into applications. The amazing thing that happens when features become easier to implement is that people start making all kinds of silly, impractical things with it, like the one we’re making today: a parking game!

DnD requires only a few things … Read article “Creating a Parking Game With the HTML Drag and Drop API”

Everybody loves the vintage game Pong, right? We sure do. What’s more fun? Building it yourself!

That’s why we decided to create one with SVG.js – to highlight some aspects of our library. It might seem like a complex idea for a small tutorial, but as you’ll see, it’s simpler than it sounds. Let’s dive into it!… Read article “Pong with SVG.js”

The year was 1995; Toy Story hit the theaters, kids were obsessively collecting little cardboard circles and Kiss From a Rose was being badly sung by everyone. I was a gangly ten-year-old, and like any other relatively tall kid I was often addressed to by “you must be so good at basketball!”. So I practiced and practiced spending hours on the court of my elementary school. Eventually, I realized, much to the dismay of aunts and other cheek-pinchers alike, that … Read article “Using GSAP to Animate Game UI with Canvas”