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I would encourage you to consider that even LLM-generated code can teach you a ton of useful new things.
Go read the source code for my dumb, zero-effort space invaders clone: https://github.com/simonw/tools/blob/main/space-invaders-GLM...
There's a bunch of useful lessons to be picked up even from that!
- Examples of CSS gradients, box shadows and flexbox layout
- CSS keyframe animation
- How to implement keyboard events in JavaScript
- A simple but effective pattern for game loops against a Canvas element, using requestAnimationFrame
- How to implement basic collision detection
If you've written games like this before these may not be new to you, but I found them pretty interesting.
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I would encourage you to consider that even LLM-generated code can teach you a ton of useful new things.
Go read the source code for my dumb, zero-effort space invaders clone: https://github.com/simonw/tools/blob/main/space-invaders-GLM...
There's a bunch of useful lessons to be picked up even from that!
- Examples of CSS gradients, box shadows and flexbox layout
- CSS keyframe animation
- How to implement keyboard events in JavaScript
- A simple but effective pattern for game loops against a Canvas element, using requestAnimationFrame
- How to implement basic collision detection
If you've written games like this before these may not be new to you, but I found them pretty interesting.