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The sidescroller is a classic game-type where a character and background scenery work in tandem together to produce a scroll-like illusion of movement. Many game development frameworks abstract away the complexity of creating a faux, digital world with physics, but today, I say NAY!

Come along for the journey as I create my own sidescroller from complete scratch, using no more and no less than good ole JavaScript.

0:00 - Introducing the sidescroller
1:12 - Creating a player
2:37 - Illustration and animation
4:54 - Developing "the scroll"
5:30 - Adding baddies (Goomba boi)
5:57 - Restart game functionality
7:25 - Ending the game
8:08 - Fire flower functionality
9:30 - The final product

Think you can beat the level? Believe me, it's not as easy as it looks... Try it yourself and comment with how many tries it took you to beat: https://chriscourses.com/demos/sidesc...

And yes, I'm aware there are some bugs, def a rough draft.