Mary Live Codes A JavaScript Game From Scratch - Mary Rose Cook / Front-Trends 2014

When I made my first game, I was scared of writing graphics code and dealing with browser quirks and player input events. So, I used a game framework to handle that stuff for me. Later, I discovered that stuff is not so scary. I will live-code an action game from scratch without using any libraries. We will cover keyboard input, graphics, collision detection and sound.

[@sinzies]

Really clean example of how to build a simple game from scratch :) brings up the most important pieces of the game (game loop, objects, handling input). Additionally it's perfect to evolve the code for yourself if you're learning coding in general. Thoroughly impressed by the live coding that no phantom errors happened and only 30 minutes. Hats off to Mary!

[@DFOwl]

Emacs. I've never seen a programmer use Emacs in the wild. I've only heard of such things on forums, but never have I imagined that I would see a real-life programmer use it, especially during a conference on front-end development.

[@CraigFisher1]

Great talk, Mary!

[@SiddharthKulkarniN]

Why not ES6?

[@gs8777]

This was in 2014. ES6 was still not widespread

[@sillynames77]

Good homework assignment for you