Java Script Helicopter Game
For work this summer I was assigned to become an "expert in JavaScript". Along the way I found myself playing around with it and re-made an old favorite, the helicopter game. This is a very janky version of course and was made early on in my understanding of JavaScript, however it is still fun and somewhat addicting. Check it out below.
The cool thing about this game is that it is almost exactly the same functionality of the old game, except all of the visuals are built purely in HTML. It is one big table with a bunch of rows and columns that are blacked out to represent walls and then the plane and skull are just special ASCII character codes written in the cell. This means this game is extremely lightweight and portable, you can run in on just about anything that can browse the internet and it will work without any Flash plugins or other fancy footwork.
With modern cell phones browsing the Internet there has been a large turn towards lightweight web based applications and games. Why code an App individually for each different phone hardware, tablet architecture, and computer operating system when you could code it once in HTML and JavaScript and have it work everywhere! Especially now with the HTML5 Canvas the possibilities are nearly limitless.
I found this article on a Pseudo 3D Game Engine written purely in JavaScript. This thing is so lightweight it only takes a couple of pages of code for this whole demo. Given it looks like a poor rip off of Wolfenstein... but then again throwbacks are all the rage these days. You can see the quasi-finished product here.
Download:
JavaScript Helicopter Game Source Code