My interpretation of the classic asteroids game. This game was made using vanilla JavaScript.

This is one of my earlier projects using JavaScript. I decided to heavily rely on objects in JavaScript, which made handling the game state much easier. The basis for this very simple game engine was the HTML canvas element and setInterval to control the game loop.

The most difficulty I had with this project was the positioning and movements of all the game pieces, and the interactions between these pieces. I had to study implementing 2D coordinate systems in Javascript and implementing simple physics-esque calculations for the game. For example the ship uses a drag system for the movement. You apply a force when you want to move the ship, and it slows down with a constant drag every loop.