Tower Defense Game Tutorial with JavaScript & HTML Canvas

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  • Ready to create amazing games? Join chriscourses.com to learn, grow and thrive from over 100 videos, quizzes and code challenges: chriscourses.com/
    Here you'll learn how to create your very first tower defense game with JavaScript and HTML canvas. We'll start by creating a game map using a map editor called Tiled. Then we'll code the basics of a tower defense game using nothing but rudimentary shapes. Finally, we'll replace our shapes with sprites to give our game a professional look.
    Google Drive Assets: drive.google.com/drive/folder...
    Finished Demo: chriscourses.github.io/tower-...
    Source Code: github.com/chriscourses/tower...
    Tiled Map Editor Download: www.mapeditor.org/
    Stone Tower Assets: free-game-assets.itch.io/free...
    Desert Tileset: free-game-assets.itch.io/free...
    Orc Sprite Assets: free-game-assets.itch.io/free...
    Heroicons: heroicons.com/
    Font Awesome: fontawesome.com/
    0:00 Introduction
    0:51 Game Assets and Downloads
    5:40 Create a Path
    23:53 Map Details
    31:42 Project Setup
    48:31 Pathfinding
    1:28:55 Building Placement
    2:12:03 Shooting Projectiles
    2:50:40 Health Bars
    3:02:46 Waves
    3:09:43 Game Over
    3:39:13 Resources
    4:01:12 Sprites - Projectile
    4:16:09 Sprites - Enemy
    4:34:15 Sprites - Building
    4:55:25 Sprites - Explosions
    5:04:50 Launch
    Music by Joe Gallagher: joegallagher.itch.io/free-orc...

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    @theshelbizzle24 Před 11 dny +22

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    @robbiepatrick6755 Před 23 dny +64

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  • @forbiddengamers8068
    @forbiddengamers8068 Před 2 měsíci +90

    I fell asleep and this was playing
    CZcams why do you make me go to the weirdest places😂

  • @bw4265
    @bw4265 Před 6 dny +4

    Just woke up, first time waking up to this channel.
    Reading these comments is surreal.

  • @xxblueberryxx8287
    @xxblueberryxx8287 Před 11 dny +15

    Every single time when I fall asleep I wake up to this channel 😭

  • @carsonplayzgaming9691
    @carsonplayzgaming9691 Před 5 měsíci +202

    i fell asleep watching youtube, wake up and check that this video is 30 mins watched in my recently watched, the scary thing is that the was coding in my dream. I’ve never coded before

  • @BulletAgario
    @BulletAgario Před měsícem +5

    I fell asleep with CZcams on and woke up an hour 30 mins into this video lol

  • @fanona112
    @fanona112 Před dnem +1

    Fell asleep to squishy and slime videos and woke up to this, 10/10.

  • @nasiba8730
    @nasiba8730 Před rokem +21

    Thank you so much, Chris, my son really adores your channel! He claims that you inspired him to become a "Front End Developer." Your hard work means a lot for me as much as it does for my son. Keep up the great work!

  • @rowancode
    @rowancode Před rokem +28

    Please don't stop making these videos, you're providing a ton of value.

  • @dabzbmg3197
    @dabzbmg3197 Před rokem +6

    Your last video helped me get a job, can't wait to build this. thanks again brother Chris.

  • @trevorfranks69
    @trevorfranks69 Před rokem +1

    Keep making these tutorials man, im an aspiring front end web dev with no time to for personal projects like learning unity so im very grateful i can still express my creativity by doing these thanks to you

  • @Alexei1983121212
    @Alexei1983121212 Před rokem +1

    bro...im someone who barly comments on youtube videos but without starting to watch this one I allready want to thank you. "You are a good man!"

  • @trashinGame
    @trashinGame Před rokem +31

    We need to get this legend to 1M subscribers at all cost!

  • @noahr1545
    @noahr1545 Před rokem +3

    Yes!!! I've been waiting for this video since you announced the video!
    I'm really glad I found your channel. You explain things SO well and I didn't even realize you could create games with only JavaScript. Keep up the great work!

    • @ChrisCourses
      @ChrisCourses  Před rokem

      Thanks Noah, been putting in that work, but have more to go to make the channel succeed. Appreciate the comment and for tuning in!

    • @noahr1545
      @noahr1545 Před rokem

      No problem!

  • @andydataguy
    @andydataguy Před rokem +3

    Omg I love tower defense games!! Would be so much fun to practice javascript by making one of these. THANK YOU for this video 🙏🏾💜🙌🏾

  • @forati
    @forati Před rokem +3

    Ok, hoje eu vou dormir às 4 da manhã e a culpa é sua.
    Ok, today I will sleep at 4am and is your fault.
    Ty m8, keep going. I learn a lot each video.

  • @joaocesarlima7339
    @joaocesarlima7339 Před 11 měsíci

    Another awesome tutorial! Your approach of adding layers of complexity little by little, without losing clarity and objectivity, is really cool. Congratulations and please continue!

  • @adamjankowski5755
    @adamjankowski5755 Před rokem

    Very cool. I watched first mins of showcase then coded everything in my own way. Thanks for inspiration, assets, and I love your canvas videos!

  • @jgvlc
    @jgvlc Před rokem +8

    Thank you very much Chris, your tutorials are fantastic!

    • @ChrisCourses
      @ChrisCourses  Před rokem +1

      Glad you think so! Got more on the way 💪

  • @user-fw9ns7rm1v
    @user-fw9ns7rm1v Před rokem +1

    In the near future when I will get a job , I promise I will donate money to your account, your tutorials are amazing and the way you explain is simple and straight to the point. I wish my college professors were teaching us the way you do. All the best

  • @djneils100
    @djneils100 Před rokem +2

    this is a superb tutorial - first rate explanation - great teacher

  • @Octa
    @Octa Před 6 dny

    Just woke up to this channel and reading these comments are so funny

  • @fmi1632
    @fmi1632 Před rokem +1

    Commenting to reference you, thank you so much for your videos, they're top quality and extremely helpful !!

  • @djoezi3662
    @djoezi3662 Před rokem +2

    I'm gonna buy your courses man! it's amazing!
    Thank you a lot!!

  • @ritarshichattaraj9552
    @ritarshichattaraj9552 Před rokem +2

    You have changed my perspective on game dev!!

  • @machochocolate7679
    @machochocolate7679 Před 8 měsíci

    Amazing tutorial, very well done my dude. Thanks so much for all the effort you put into this. Definitely a subscriber now!

  • @adefunkeadedoyin9338
    @adefunkeadedoyin9338 Před rokem +1

    Chris thanks for your courses words can't describe how they have improved my game development skills, I even got my first paid project with the knowledge of my game dev 🚀🚀

    • @ChrisCourses
      @ChrisCourses  Před rokem +2

      Awesome, love hearing that. Feel free to use any of my code on GitHub to help further your career, I also hope the next videos I create further your knowledge even more-so🙏

    • @adefunkeadedoyin9338
      @adefunkeadedoyin9338 Před rokem

      @@ChrisCourses thanks man. God bless 🚀🚀

  • @simon-hb7wf
    @simon-hb7wf Před rokem +1

    you are so well organized, this helps us a lot !

    • @ChrisCourses
      @ChrisCourses  Před rokem

      I do pride myself on the organization / chapter time-stamps of these, put a lot of time into making everything is exactly where it needs to be 😄

    • @simon-hb7wf
      @simon-hb7wf Před rokem

      @@ChrisCourses and that's why after more than 3 years following your channel, I'm always happy to watch a new video from you ! 👨‍💻

  • @universecode1101
    @universecode1101 Před rokem +2

    I don't know how you create, such long courses ... I'll be able to do them too, sooner or later 😝 Great content

    • @ChrisCourses
      @ChrisCourses  Před rokem

      Lots of sitting down, messing up, then trying again until I get it right 😅 Best of luck on the projects!

  • @planetaryescape5794
    @planetaryescape5794 Před 2 dny

    Why is everyone waking up to this and why did I wake up to this too

  • @abhijitbarman4401
    @abhijitbarman4401 Před rokem

    In CZcams there are not many tutorial on Canvas. Thanks for it.

  • @martinbobbio2211
    @martinbobbio2211 Před 7 měsíci

    Thank you a lot Chris. I love your courses.

  • @anawan
    @anawan Před rokem

    Yeahhh another one ! Thank you so much to make these awesome videos accessible to everyone !

    • @ChrisCourses
      @ChrisCourses  Před rokem

      Chapters, captions, free === the ultimate accessibility tuts 😎

  • @christophersvatora6658

    So everyone is also waking up to this guy 💀

  • @marcelo.victor
    @marcelo.victor Před rokem

    Chris, hi from Brazil!
    Can you make a javascript tutorial on how to display a div on a button click, the div being always attached to the button by the ID, and show above/bottom or left/right of the button when this button is positioned at top, bottom, left, right of the window? I'm bangging my head against the wall trying to do this!

  • @Tomisthere
    @Tomisthere Před 7 dny

    It’s the third time i wake up to this channel

  • @SkunkonHeels
    @SkunkonHeels Před 3 dny

    Dude how did I end up here 😭 I wasn’t even on CZcams when I slept?

  • @name_69420
    @name_69420 Před měsícem +3

    Woke up here again.

  • @unixrebel
    @unixrebel Před 9 měsíci

    anyone know what that default font is that is used on mac? want to get it for my linux pc.

  • @gofudgeyourselves9024
    @gofudgeyourselves9024 Před rokem +1

    Wow just wow. More stuff like this

  • @shaikhsanuar5339
    @shaikhsanuar5339 Před rokem

    It’s awesome bro. Learning a lot.

  • @rustyrustan
    @rustyrustan Před rokem +1

    100% Im feeling the next one is going to be a lovely RPG game with basic sprite sheets, teleport from one place to another, basic inventory and some juicy cool extra shenanigans things, im looking towards it. I love your work and patience to explain everything, keep the energy and vibes all the way up !!

  • @chetanuzumaki9581
    @chetanuzumaki9581 Před rokem

    Awesome brother thanks for ur hardwork

  • @jonathanmanner5616
    @jonathanmanner5616 Před rokem

    Awesome, did you use any specific program to actually make the tileset.png? I would like to build a game based of this tutorial but not sure how I would merge the assets together to one file. Perhaps that's not really necessary?

    • @WyzrdCat
      @WyzrdCat Před rokem

      You can use basically any graphics editor. Photoshop, Affinity, Photopea, Krita, etc.

  • @goldenPixeler
    @goldenPixeler Před rokem

    Thank you for your work i like how you doing videos

  • @johanngerhardt401
    @johanngerhardt401 Před 9 měsíci

    At 1:22:00 i got Uncaught ReferenceError: Cannot access 'enemy2' before initialization
    at animate (index.js:49:5) cannot fix it,
    const enemy = new Enemy({ position: { x: 100, y: 100 } })
    const enemy2 = new Enemy({ position: { x: waypoints[0].x, y: waypoints[0].y } })
    first work but second dont work
    how can i fix it?

    • @Gregor__Samsa
      @Gregor__Samsa Před 8 měsíci

      I found out that the order of importing js files might cause the issue. Can you make sure that you import the waypoints.js before the index.js in the index.html?

  • @spanch1bobr
    @spanch1bobr Před rokem

    your explaintions are so good.

  • @wisdomochei7750
    @wisdomochei7750 Před rokem +1

    Holy shit... 5 hours? 😅
    Looks Interesting and challenging so yeah, I'm in ✅

    • @ChrisCourses
      @ChrisCourses  Před rokem +1

      Hell yeah man, welcome, hope the project went / is going well 🙌

  • @babaakshay
    @babaakshay Před rokem

    Great video! Could you please also make a video on how we could monetize these games built with Javascript? Maybe also release them on Android or IOS? I am really thinking of this as a full time job.

  • @namyak-bf9od
    @namyak-bf9od Před rokem

    at around 40 minutes in, there is a bug with the canvas getContext. the browser console says that is cannot read the property of null

  • @CallousCoder
    @CallousCoder Před rokem

    Wouldn't it be more sensible and robust to set objects in an array to null instead of splicing them out. And just check for a null (which you should always do anyways)? At least you don't need to worry about updating an array whilst looping through it.
    Either way this is easier than in C/C++ where you'd actually have to register which struct/object you want to free/delete.
    Also i noticed that projectile path is update every frame, so you have a "hear seeker" rock :D

  • @Suzuhara
    @Suzuhara Před rokem

    when I use
    position: { x:waypoints[0].x, y:waypoints[0].y
    I got - "ReferenceError: can't access lexical declaration 'enemy' before initialization"
    and I have no idea why.

  • @tome343osu4
    @tome343osu4 Před rokem

    the moment i paste in the second svg everything goes black barring the newly pasted icon. Really confused can't seem to fix this either. Anyone have any idea what's happening/how i can fix this?

  • @vin2368
    @vin2368 Před rokem

    This is Awesome Bro :)

  • @ARandom.Channel.
    @ARandom.Channel. Před rokem

    I fell asleep watching cube marching and woke up to this

  • @JasonRobards2
    @JasonRobards2 Před rokem

    1:27:00 I don't give an intial x and y position with my constructor, since this information is in the waypoints array anyway. When changing the initial x position after going through the initialisation array, the code always writes the x position for the last element to all elements in the array. Can anyone explain why this could be? I guess it has something to do with how js refers to objects, but I am not well versed in this language. My intuition tells me this should work.
    const enemies = [];
    for (let i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
    enemies.push(new Enemy());
    }
    for (let i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
    const xOffset = i * 150;
    enemies[i].position.x -= xOffset;
    console.log(enemies[i]);
    }

    • @JasonRobards2
      @JasonRobards2 Před rokem

      This was my constructor and apparently this does not work. I don't know why.
      class Enemy {
      constructor() {
      this.waypointIndex = 0;
      this.position = waypoints[this.waypointIndex];
      It kept overwriting so that all enemies in the array had the same position.

    • @JasonRobards2
      @JasonRobards2 Před rokem

      This works:
      class Enemy {
      constructor() {
      this.waypointIndex = 0;
      this.position = { x: waypoints[this.waypointIndex].x, y: waypoints[this.waypointIndex].y };
      I think the previous didn't work because it copied the label to this.position rather than the actual values, although I am not entirely sure what exactly happened. I am going to leave this little convo with myself in case someone else can make use of it :)

  • @hungle-wi2bj
    @hungle-wi2bj Před rokem

    Hi, how to convert .fla to .png, or fla to something else to use in Unity?

  • @kashmirtechtv2948
    @kashmirtechtv2948 Před 9 měsíci

    Why do you use classes??? Shouldn't we be on Functional programming?

  • @hungle-wi2bj
    @hungle-wi2bj Před rokem

    How to create tower.png with different tower. Your resource have rock tower. I need to create more tower with png. Thank you so much.

  • @taranewstime6909
    @taranewstime6909 Před rokem +1

    Really awesome 👍🙏

  • @kalebdasilvavitorino2877

    Eu gostaria de passar um jogo desses para mobile, eu consigo??

  • @i-lack-creativity
    @i-lack-creativity Před měsícem

    CZcams redirected me from a series of videos to to this (it started with cleaning uranium waste)

  • @kinopremyera2753
    @kinopremyera2753 Před rokem

    Great 👍 tutorial thank you 😊
    Hello Chris how are u? I have a question. I want to make app like webflow So should i use canvas to make that kinda project or not

  • @HuynhLuong227
    @HuynhLuong227 Před rokem +1

    Great! Many thank

  • @user-pc8ip7hv5w
    @user-pc8ip7hv5w Před 10 měsíci

    how did you get the sprite

  • @sandrallancherosg
    @sandrallancherosg Před rokem

    GO CHRIS!

  • @2DiamondShovelsX
    @2DiamondShovelsX Před 5 dny

    Why does CZcams do this I wake up and BAM im 3 hours into the same video every time. HOW DOES YT KNOW???BUT

  • @user-gf9ri4wj5h
    @user-gf9ri4wj5h Před rokem

    Can we have three js game

  • @otisrancko
    @otisrancko Před rokem

    Maahnn this video is fire!!!!....🔥🔥🔥

  • @japsgy
    @japsgy Před rokem

    love u man

  • @jasminbratz298
    @jasminbratz298 Před 3 dny

    bro i usually but sleeping vids to sleep bit when the vid ends and i dont even know it just Kepa plaiyng cuz its on a charger so when i wake up i wake up to this;-;

  • @TomNode
    @TomNode Před 5 dny

    Woke up to this too! What the heck?😅

  • @pedromesquita9806
    @pedromesquita9806 Před rokem

    You rock!

  • @noir66146
    @noir66146 Před 3 měsíci

    time well spent !

  • @naedid2512
    @naedid2512 Před rokem

    Thanks

  • @saurabhrawat3878
    @saurabhrawat3878 Před rokem

    hey man please built brick breaker type game

  • @LxraXJkS
    @LxraXJkS Před 5 dny

    Me dormí viendo CZcams y aparecí acá… 57:32

  • @cdgfilms1004
    @cdgfilms1004 Před 17 dny

    i fell asleep and woke up to my phone on 13% and i was 59:59 minutes in

  • @ramon4756
    @ramon4756 Před 6 dny

    I also woke up to this video

  • @aftercyberneticrp
    @aftercyberneticrp Před rokem

    The best!

  • @gisen100ify
    @gisen100ify Před 5 měsíci

    Спасибо!

  • @loicmakassoeti3209
    @loicmakassoeti3209 Před rokem

    You're a legend. Insane content.

  • @user-qb3be7gc1z
    @user-qb3be7gc1z Před 2 měsíci

    good thanks a lot!!
    1:05:01

  • @jasoncain5552
    @jasoncain5552 Před rokem

    All you had to do is used two inner corner pieces

  • @macealred4135
    @macealred4135 Před 22 dny

    I fell asleep to cleaning videos where tf am i

  • @InfectAion
    @InfectAion Před dnem

    Woke up to this wtf

  • @daveinpublic
    @daveinpublic Před 4 měsíci +1

    At 15:00.. felt like the longest 5 minutes... How can you spend that long doing 1 thing?

  • @thecoolnessking5834
    @thecoolnessking5834 Před 10 dny +1

    Wth i learned coding while sleeping and this was why wth WTH

  • @andc6016
    @andc6016 Před rokem

    time stamp: 4:54:44

  • @AnimeWarriorPlays
    @AnimeWarriorPlays Před rokem

    WAWW

  • @ericawoodhams1521
    @ericawoodhams1521 Před 26 dny

    I literally fell asleep watching Hell’s Kitchen… CZcams do better😂

  • @user-ih3ud7pf8q
    @user-ih3ud7pf8q Před rokem

    احسنت

  • @BigCereal-ze6vm
    @BigCereal-ze6vm Před 19 dny

    Fell asleep watching strongest anime characters where tf

  • @S-Lomar
    @S-Lomar Před 8 měsíci

    🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯

  • @doyouwantsli9680
    @doyouwantsli9680 Před měsícem

    Ja some male wx reaction

  • @nivekzer451
    @nivekzer451 Před 4 měsíci

    teste

  • @user-iu3zz9oj4j
    @user-iu3zz9oj4j Před rokem

    dude ima unsub if you don't slow down

  • @saronarabeds6517
    @saronarabeds6517 Před rokem

    oh I am thanking you very much... can you make next something 3D by using the canvas.getContext("2d")? I am so excited for that video... thanks