I Tried Making an FPS Game in JavaScript

[@simondev758]

Everything in the video, the effects, even the graphs and animations, were all done with GLSL shaders. Learn how to do them yourself with my course: simondev.teachable.com/p/glsl-shaders-from-scratch Support me on Patreon: www.patreon.com/simondevyt

[@crowbr]

nice!

[@c0nsumption]

Would you be willing to make a course around this? I’m interested in the GLSL course as well but crafting all this FPS project with an in-depth tutorial is most def something in extremely interested in. Willing to pay and all. You’re literally the only person I’m finding whose documenting three.JS experiments this in depth 🥺

[@simondev758]

@@c0nsumption Yep, really depends on interest. I'd be happy to make a multi-hour version available.

[@c0nsumption]

@@simondev758 👏🏽 awesome. If you end up going for it please make an announcement as I’m for sure signing up!!!

[@thechanglongwang]

voice sounds like text to speech

[@Retrofire-47]

this guy makes me feel like the label "beginner" is far too generous for my current skill level

[@socio637]

yeah hes a wizard. dont be dejected though, you could be too

[@somefin3322]

Do be reminded that this is probably all in many days of work, we don't see his actual process of studying to get something working. We see the process of it WORKING, not fully being worked on.

[@programmingjobesch7291]

You have me fully convinced I can build a "quicky" game engine from scratch in javascript to rival unreal- and I just learned how arrays work...😂

[@Ecrios]

This is one of the few of the most impressive game design videos I've ever seen! Please, carry on! You. Are. Amazing!

[@alijalloul122]

This is extremely impressive. Wish you'd have an in-depth series building this from scratch.

[@SuperPicolin0]

I'm amazed once again, why are you making this look so easy, like others mentioned, I would definitely pay for a detailed course on all this with threejs. Do I have to separately learn game development and threejs because the info on making games with three is very limited?

[@simondev758]

Possibly. Game development is it's own thing, and three.js is a nice little 3d graphics library, but if you have 3d experience, then learning three.js specifically isn't required.

[@SuperPicolin0]

@@simondev758 I almost figured from the wiki pages you're looking up sometimes, I should leave threejs alone for a bit and focus on actual game dev concepts first, thank you for replying and the good content you're creating for us.

[@Desopolis]

I’d say use a more solid, game focused engine for a bit to learn and understand the fundamentals. It’s like learning to be a racing driver… you can go out and get a focused team and pre-built car and focus on driving, or you can buy a kit car online and build it in your garage.. Threejs serves a super wide set of use cases, so i needs to be a flexible as possible, where a game engine knows a lot of the core requirements before you’ve even start. I’d push yourself beyond any cordless game ends, “gamemaker” type things, and try at least Unity. If you want a less intense engine there’s stuff like Godot (which has more code requirements) There are good web based game engines too, Pixi and phaser will make EXCELENT 2d games and have a strong legacy and community. For 3D there’s PlayCanvas which is a game engine built on three, it does a lot of the heavy lifting for you but I’m not sure how I feel about it yet.. Lastly there’s BabylonJS which wasn’t burdened by all the outdated shit three has so support and is honestly a pretty great rendering engine. They have an excellent Node system and a good community, although pretty isolated from the rest of the JS world… TLDR: get Unity, buy the stuff you can’t figure out, and go deeper on game #2, or 3 or 4 etc…

[@werrutkyupnext]

damn I wanna learn javascript this is like really really hard?

[@anomiedesign5030]

@@werrutkyupnext how is it going?

[@baguette2652]

Ever since I discovered your channel, I became super motivated by your creations. Thank you for bringing such awesome content to us! 🔥

[@ibingeyt6077]

I would title the video “I Tried Making an FPS Game in Java script”

[@simondev758]

Done :)

[@jchaloupka007]

Damn, that’s amazing, love it!

[@ViciousViscount]

That's pretty much Quake III Arena. I LOVE it.

[@NaiyoGames]

Everything sucks event me. *proceeds to create a masterpiece.*

[@guccidevel]

bro my ass is still making black scenes with cubes 💀

[@PotatoGodzilla]

I love those three js videos keep it up dude you're awesome! :)

[@kosa-tv]

Great idea dude. Like always, not disappointing content.

[@paulo1940]

I was quite hesitant on the artistic choice of placing random bleak large blocks on the map until you added those effects, dang those were cool!

[@Ralster]

How did you go from having a single main.js file handling mostly everything in the first two minutes, then suddenly have an entire tree of controllers and stuff like that !?!?

[@Fallen_Ninja]

Missed you bro

[@oaksBFL]

This tutorial is amazing and you are really good at teaching !! great job sir !

[@oaksBFL]

hackers in my acc i did not comment this sorry bro

[@danser_theplayer01]

This dude made a first person viewed 3d scene in javascript AT THE VERY BEGINNING and called it *easy.*

[@covenantersoldier9165]

Tip of the hat top you, truly. well done. you truly are a great online tutor.

[@crowbr]

Nice!! Amazing work, pls make a video about customize characters, like put armor or clothes in character.

[@nikkossta]

"I'm not a violent guy" "I used Doom Ethernal as inspiration". Nice

[@chamonmath7688]

Simon dev always has great explanation while going through his process, and I always get a good laugh at some of his dialogue. Lol, stay awesome

[@Mohta69]

That's dope dude

[@kasali2739]

impressiv! Those spiders brought me to fresh idea for next tutorial, how is about coding on skeletal meshes? (procedural animation, equipment using local matrices of bones for position etc.) This thing can be found for unity but there is nothing for threjs out there

[@swoorp]

Yay it's finally out!

[@loun.exXe3]

Awesome video! Thank you!

[@rodrigofernandes6449]

Wow. Can you make a full tutorial on this?

[@minayoussef5730]

works, keep up the good work man

[@cyrusguest4975]

the way you pronounced decal makes me want to cry

[@simondev758]

Deckkkkkle

[@srsherman7]

Im going to point out and draw focus to how he canadianly says deckulls for decals... only because im jealous of how casual he makes this whole thing feel.. for real though I love watching your dev progress it's next level

[@Di4Fourr]

hanks lot Sir.. You helping us..

[@giorgijankhoteli5803]

damn that sky looks so amazing great job with that

[@ionutrosca6326]

TNice tutorials comnt from you is legendary. Uncomplicated like your video!!!

[@hamsteroncoffee]

Woowww, this looks amazing 😍! Wish I had those skills or at least half of them 😅 - you make complicated things look so easy

[@amestresys9175]

WHAAAT A SKILL ... incredible

[@korniychuk]

Wow! It's incredible!!! Thanks for this example!!!

[@IxZOMBxI]

You are very good at explaining things. keep it up thank u

[@GregoryTheGr8ster]

Also, I really dig your tutorials. The only downside is that I learn how far behind I am in algorithms and whatnot. That has been my problem in game development since I started.

[@simondev758]

Game development takes a lonngggg time to because of the breadth of knowledge required. The nice thing is, it makes it fun to learn all of it.

[@GregoryTheGr8ster]

@@simondev758 Oh yes, modern 3D games are so much more complex than when I first started in 1989. Those games are now known as "pixel art" games. How funny!

[@GregoryTheGr8ster]

@@simondev758 Also, did you ever see Ultima Underworld? It was the first.

[@TurtleFul]

Love your videos! Keep up the good work. Your experements are always interesting to watch. I would love to see a video about the performance difference between a JS/web based game like this and an in engine one like in Gdot or Unity.

[@simondev758]

That is an AWESOME idea!

[@LuisCassih]

Every time you do something it's like those Minecraft videos when they said "I did some mining off camera" and comes with an entirely new scene. Anyways, amazing video, I would like to see a more detail explanation on the skybox, looks really good.

[@Variapolis]

More and more engines and frameworks for games seem to be slowly moving to CSS and HTML for UI. It's pretty neat IMO. Some examples include: CS:GO Source 2 Engine Unity's Upcoming UI Toolkit (UXML) S&Box Escape from Tarkov

[@joaquindomenech7541]

Truly? On desktop apps?

[@rottenapple9588]

That’s only two engines

[@nurazizalimustofa5087]

Thank you man for sharing this stuff

[@Skeffles]

Looks fantastic!

[@d0c_dev]

Wow you make this look easy even though it is not, got no idea how to write JS though

[@cabelogold6687]

Very well explained!

[@unicornsteroids]

The shaders on this video makes your course my next purchase. Amazing video!

[@bruniomhars]

Man tNice tutorials is on of the best tutorial in general on youtube. Clear, simple, constant, good to listen. Thank you for sharing.

[@M.Ibrahim35874]

Will stay tuned to your channal! Cheers!

[@LikezYou]

Love your videos, keep it up! :D

[@mtxar]

much respect as always, :)

[@TheAwesomeTrunk]

How cool! Good job.

[@billcolak5253]

absolutely unreal!

[@davidmurphy563]

Ok, that was really impressive. JS did a surprisingly good job. Maybe I shouldn't be so mean to it all the time.

[@Retrofire-47]

everyone knocks JavaScript for no reason... js can literally create Skyrim... if you had an overzealous game dev at the helm

[@TopBagon]

@@Retrofire-47 so can assembly. it's just not a great choice

[@Retrofire-47]

@@TopBagon What would be your suggestion for "high-production web" game development? WebGL/WebGPU, Canvas, something else entirely? Or do you just dislike the entire JavaScript language for game dev?

[@TopBagon]

@@Retrofire-47 nah I think JS (or TS in particular) can be great for 2D web game development but it's way better to create 3D games in unity/ue5

[@FaislQurishi]

I still await the "I make a third person shooter" lol, miss your videos Simon hope life isnt getting too busy

[@realfl495]

Let's do a game in javascript >proceeds to write shader code

[@cmcdonough2]

Amazing content. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

[@robertocarlosfarfansanchez6111]

where I’d record one track of the soft and than use a second Edison to record scrubbing through the soft to mimic a wave table.

[@MartinAlix]

Great video as usual! Have you tried Rapier and React-three-fiber?

[@simondev758]

Nope

[@StreeTraceuresvideos]

Do you have tutorial how to make game like this? and you keep developing this game and create effect animation like granate?

[@KamranWali]

This is super kool. Really like how you made the game and never knew using Javascript and Browser would give such detailed game. The movement looks good. The shader is spot on. Also the UI are on point. This looks like a really good game. keep it up! :)

[@andrewallbright]

Finite state machines... The every man's crude game entity AI.

[@atharvkumar2564]

It's cool as hell

[@rakshitshetty6958]

Hi Simon, in this project are you using 'FirstPersonControls' or 'PerspectiveCamera' and then listening to keyboard and mouse inputs.

[@simondev758]

It's using the first person controls I built in my tutorial.

[@rakshitshetty6958]

@@simondev758 okay, got it 😁

[@Vindettacon]

Great video. You mentioned sharing the repo on twitter? Either I'm looking at the wrong twitter post or it wasn't there. Would you mind sharing a link?

[@godbibo]

wow what a nice video !

[@Alice_Longinuse]

Have you try webgpu ? You should make video about it !

[@simondev758]

Yeah it's 100% on my list :)

[@Mister_Man]

Do you own a VR headset by chance? Would be awesome to see what you can do with three.js + WebXR

[@simondev758]

I don't, but I feel like this gives me a very good excuse to buy one!

[@Mohta69]

@@simondev758 haha yes

[@ITR]

Did you try checking how many enemies shooting you could have at once? I feel like javascript would have huge performance issues in fpses since the collision checks tend to stack up, so it'd be interesting to see how well the engine does.

[@simondev758]

I didn't check, but I kinda doubt it'd be a big issue. The physics engine is compiled from C++ to wasm, so "most" of the speed is theoretically retained. After that, calling raycast from JS a bunch of times shouldn't be that costly.

[@ITR]

@@simondev758 Makes sense

[@spaceymen]

Excellent stuff

[@andrewpozenel2931]

Where can i get this "little colored cubes changing colors" shader?? I'd like to use it in Godot and Unity

[@simondev758]

I'll post the whole thing to Github at some point, I typically announce it on Twitter once I've had a chance to go through and do any cleanups.

[@andrewpozenel2931]

@@simondev758 Ok, thanks. will check you out on Twitter and GitHub.

[@Nubbley]

im sooo thankful for blueprints lol.

[@simondev758]

I dabbled in UE4 a bit. Blueprints are nice but man it takes forever to do anything with them.

[@DRDRE1100]

Hey simon, nice work!! where can we find the repo?

[@anthonymaacaron2313]

You just earned a sub Could you make a tutorial or share the code??

[@skkylimits]

Sensei Simon. Do you have the link to the codebase? My blind eyes can't seem to find it somehow. I would love to take a look at the codebase

[@simondev758]

Sorry, I've been procrastinating with cleaning that up. I'll get it posted eventually, I always do, just takes me time to make myself sit down and do it. Look for me to announce on twitter.

[@skkylimits]

@@simondev758 I know you will. You always deliver. Studying your code has taken my javascript to the next level and I am forever gratefull. I mean that! You are a huge inspiration. I will wait patiently for updates on your twitter ;))

[@NomarRH]

@@simondev758 No importa que no este limpio, nosotros lo podemos mejorar.

[@tutosrive]

thank you so much , it worked

[@boot-strapper]

do you think I could make a low poly multiplayer game with js? I want to recreate an old game I used to love.

[@g_a_b_b_o-gabbopower5134]

willing to learn. Unless you already understand setups, then I gues sit's gonna be easier, but as a classically trained pianist I was blown

[@ringosvirtualworld9027]

Excellent job 👍👍👍

[@stadnikds]

"The nice thing about JS is that I can do this all in HTML and CSS" - says noone and never :D

[@robertonome2448]

you sound like Saul Goodman if he was a gamedev

[@jasonl9266]

With javascript you can make an online multiplayer , since it's for the web ,I'm sure it would be like a native language for such workload . Cool tutorial though!

[@jorgeenriquelayibanez814]

how do i add a i downloaded to my soft soft so i can resetup it?

[@WalmartVaxei]

grandpa of gamedev

[@simondev758]

Aw man, I'm not that old yet.

[@Cos3D]

would this game only work in a browser or also natively on pc ?

[@worldbest3097]

and could you make these games into online course? bro thx

[@oxygen_uz]

Please make this game multiplayer or online

[@lowbeats4609]

here any of the notes i click on. Any idea why? (I'm a beginner)

[@KatsuoGinjiro]

Can you use it to resetup s?

[@buddylandry]

Hello, Simondev. I do have a question. I tried loading your files from Github and I noticed that the first file you worked on in this video was First_Person_Camera.js. I tried loading the main.js file with index.html and was not able to get it to work. Did you load First_Person_Camera.js from Index.html. Thank you for your response. Cheers.

[@gunawan7807]

how can I download it on my mac? could you share

[@wesleytiago4121]

Worked smoothly, tysm

[@drawmaster77]

incredible.

[@shimadabr]

Honestly i don't know how game dev is one of the lowest paid jobs in all the programming fields (on average), it's so hard dude! I see people doing sophisticated CRUDs earnings loads of money

[@Okyo01]

thank u helped me a lot

[@yresze2885]

So perfect

[@rajsonu3156]

Oh.. these are really good

[@mohsinrahman8391]

Incredible

[@mikaelprevitera9552]

this is going to be great!

[@sepinaco]

Awesome!! Can i find the source code?

[@HadesMrDark]

Follow him on Twitter, he will announce when it's available.