Start Making Games

A talk about why games are the ultimate creative expression, how to build a simple pong game, and how to ramp it up to the next level.

• Slide Deck
• Final Game (Developong)
• Presentation Video

Credits and Resources

Talks

• Juice it or lose it - a talk by Martin Jonasson & Petri Purho
• Jan Willem Nijman - Vlambeer - "The art of screenshake"
• The Creative Coding Podcast - 53 – Iain's guide to Game Design!

Tutorials

• Game Mechanic Explorer by John Watson
• Foundation HTML5 Animation with JavaSCript
• Coding Math - Keith Peters
• Coding Rainbow - Daniel Shiffman

Tools

• CodePen
• Playground.js
• Bfxr

Community

• HTML5 Game Devs Forum

Competitions and Challenges

• js13k
• js1k
• Ludum Dare
• #1GAM - One Game a Month