Build a Dev Portfolio as a 2D Game

Build a Dev Portfolio as a 2D Game - JavaScript Course

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Learn how to use Kaboom.js to create a 2d game that is actually a developer portfolio. This is a creative way to show off your skills.
Live demo: jslegenddev.github.io/portfolio/
Source code: github.com/JSLegendDev/2d-por...
Map files (map.json + map.png): github.com/JSLegendDev/2d-por...
Spritesheet: github.com/JSLegendDev/2d-por...
Fonts: datagoblin.itch.io/monogram
Tiled software: mapeditor.org
Substack post explaining how to implement mobile controls : jslegenddev.substack.com/p/ho...
Course developed by @JSLegendDev
⭐️ Contents ⭐️
⌨️ (0:00:00) Intro
⌨️ (0:03:35) Setup
⌨️ (0:16:40) Loading assets
⌨️ (0:19:36) How to use Tiled to draw maps
⌨️ (0:36:23) Writing logic to display map
⌨️ (0:45:02) Creating the player
⌨️ (0:52:13) Writing logic to display boundaries
⌨️ (0:58:07) Writing logic to display dialogue
⌨️ (1:16:28) Spawning the player + player movement logic
⌨️ (1:26:33) Writing logic for scaling the camera + animations + dialogue text
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КОМЕНТАРІ: 127

@JSLegendDev Місяць тому

Hope you enjoyed my course! I have plenty of in-depth gamedev tutorials all in JavaScript/TypeScript. Head over to my channel if you're interested!

@alishxn Місяць тому

Amazing video loving the concept. You sir got got a new loyal subscriber 😃

@JSLegendDev Місяць тому

@@alishxn Thanks :)

@LBCreateSpace Місяць тому

Thank you very much for making this! I love that you don’t rush through it and you explain things. Thanks again!

@JSLegendDev Місяць тому

@@LBCreateSpace Glad you liked it!

@user-cs2py4wg3p Місяць тому

thanks for the nice tutorial. Could this be deployed on github page?

@dhirajsuthar2607 27 днів тому

For people not familiarising with the 2D-portfolio is you can create a 'normal' portfolio that is good for recruiters and give a dialog or something that takes them inside this, incase they are interested in checking out something like this. Great video by JSLegendDev, loved this concept.

@JSLegendDev 27 днів тому

Thanks for watching!

@progwithpaul Місяць тому

But problem is here recruiters are quite lazy. They'll not even go through this :( and straight off reject the portfolio

@death135 Місяць тому

Exactly

@JSLegendDev Місяць тому

Feel free to adapt it so it becomes more convenient while maintaining originality. You could for example, implement quick navigation, etc... My tutorial is just meant as a starting base you can take it in any direction you want from there; or just use what you learned here to start making actual games ;) You could also make it as a personal site (your personal corner on the internet) rather than strictly a developer portfolio.

@user-ij8wb5bw3q Місяць тому

Exactly, most people at such jobs are tired and are just scanning through all CV’s as fast as they can.

@Firstborn0Raz Місяць тому

Tell me about it. And they keep giving you the same response without fully explaining exactly why they chose someone else for the job instead of you? I am not a coder, I am a visual artist and this has been happening to me for so many years.

@eric-jt Місяць тому

It doesn’t need to be the main portfolio, it can be a second one. Maybe like a toggle on the main portfolio

@dreamisover9813 Місяць тому

That's a pretty interesting concept for a portfolio, really neat

@cjthefinesse Місяць тому

This looks sick. Might do this this weekend.

@a7mdbest15 Місяць тому

This is really creative way to make a protfolio

@annebeignatborde1832 9 днів тому

Valuable tutorial, thank you. I'll be coming back to it once I've worked out my theme and storyline 🙂

@anitaaaa1293 7 днів тому

This is sooooo amazing. Love it 🧡

@brandon_wallace Місяць тому

This is great!

@user-np6sx1rc8d Місяць тому

I'm still inexperienced in coding but this tuto is really a great motivation for me to really learn as the portfolio is important as I'm currently still a student and it is fun because of the game concept rather than plain portfolio for learning purposes

@LydiasPianoStudio Місяць тому

Such a fun project! 😂🎉 Thanks for sharing! 😊

@JSLegendDev Місяць тому

No problem!

@marginiszero Місяць тому

This is next level portfolio,🔥❤

@londonalexander7868 29 днів тому

Definitely going to build this and put it as a button on my portfolio. Don’t think having it be the landing page is the smartest tho. I wish recruiters cared enough

@nelsonfernandes5208 Місяць тому

Literally I was finishing my portfolio as a game yesterday and this drops now 😭... But this is perfect I can see where I can improve my project now. 😊

@hassamulhaq7762 Місяць тому

such videos are useful, and diff in many cases.

@bhaskarmondal7461 26 днів тому

this tutorial is soooo cool,

@Harthikreddyy Місяць тому

Looks easy enough

@firstlastcode Місяць тому

we need a whole video on the canvas api

@ianwataka3328 Місяць тому

I have never imagined one could do this😅😅

@binay8848 Місяць тому

I started watching it..

@linisusanv688 Місяць тому

I appreciate the creativity in this project. But not sure if recruiter will open portfolio in game format. Can you please share link for other portfolio project? Preferably in React.

@QuirkyAvik 15 днів тому

I thought about this a while back unfortunately the HR didn't want to play, she asked me if I had a paper resume or linkdin. Unfortunate state of where I live, we kill creative thinking.

@samoylov1973 Місяць тому

Nice! Will learn JS with this) Looking for the same one in Python!

@jigsaw2253 Місяць тому

You can translate the one in JS to Python yourself, no need to put another video also it helps you

@psiryan Місяць тому

Clever Idea. But important to consider your audience; this might not be a good format for certain types of developer jobs.

@shatanshubodkhe1841 Місяць тому

lesgooooo

@qaw392 12 днів тому

2:07 aee, my man is also goblin

@Narslimmus Місяць тому

As thankful I am for all the free knowledge you provide, I don't think this is a good idea for the majority of people, maybe exclusively game developers will benefit from this style. Your portfolio should be usable first things first, then beautiful, then unique; don't fall into the trap of overcomplicating your site. Just some wisdom from someone who spent almost two years going crazy over this.

@phat80 18 днів тому

If it’s one of the several portfolio projects it may be acceptable but if there’re only 2D games in your portfolio it will be strange for any recruiter 😅

@user-eo6rb1sk6i Місяць тому

❤

@chenhuing8055 14 днів тому

This is dope!

@keithconner9036 Місяць тому

Thank you. Please be gracious in the comments. Negativity only attracts more negativity

@cristineeross 9 днів тому

I did code along, and I love how it turned out, thanks so much! I have a small problem though, I hope you can help me out. My player is able to move past the boundaries somehow. I must've missed something. What should I double check?

@cristineeross 9 днів тому

Silly me, I've found it: the boundary.width was missing, it only had a hight, so there was no boundary :D lol. Thank you so much! I coded a few small games in vanilla js before, but Kaboom makes it a lot easier, I love it!

@Blaze_MediaTv Місяць тому

When he said "JS Legend Dev" he wasn't joking 🔥

@Vinsmokedz Місяць тому

The field is so saturated that these billion dollar potential projects are churned out for free.

@internallyinteral Місяць тому

We need more IT professionals so we can keep dropping wages 😂

@luchodf 3 дні тому

Hello how are you! I've followed the tutorial and found it quite interesting! I made a quick portfolio for myself but i'm having trouble to deploy it on the web. Im using git pages, don't know if that could be an issue because it's giving 404 errors with some files. Can I use gitpages? if yes, is there any extra config i need to do to deploy my portfolio on the web? thanks!

@codeguru_hsb Місяць тому

Recruiters aint playing a game for sure

@tokaoshba2188 Місяць тому

Could I make a similar portfolio by using python

@dreamleaf6784 Місяць тому

Yes lol

@tokaoshba2188 Місяць тому

How? Is there a video like this one that explains how to make a similar portfolio? @@dreamleaf6784

@ShadWarri0w 16 днів тому

Hi, Thank you for uploading this. I really loved the course it's a super interesting way of showcasing a Portfolio. However, I've ran into a problem during deployment. I tried to deploy this on Github all it returns me is a white screen with a "Tap/Click around to move" at the top left. All the assets do not load and all that's returned is Failed to load resources: server responded with a status of 404(). This is for utils, kaboomCtx, monogram.ttf and constants. The localhost loads when I run Npm run preview and Npm run dev so I doubt the pathing is the issue. I would really appreciate it if you're able to guide me on this.

@JSLegendDev 16 днів тому

Hi! I added a small guide explaining how to deploy the project in the project's GitHub repository linked in the description.

@amauryreyesbetances3639 Місяць тому

Lastima que no tiene pista de audio integrado este video.

@reyrotaru2011 29 днів тому

super nice project, but someone else as problems deploying it to the web? When i try to delpoy it, all the assets don't load

@guglielmocerri7036 Місяць тому

It can be published using GitHub pages?

@MrOgunsanya Місяць тому

Yes

@benjidaniel5595 16 днів тому

It’s a nice concept but I feel the biggest problem is it’s just not very compelling. There’s just not much to do. Even the resume is just a link to an externally hosted document.

@mmapuppy Місяць тому

Is it 2024 ready? I mean I hope there’s a backdoor exploit in it… needs to be legit

@itzmeroj117 11 днів тому

when i create the code for the player and the spawnpoint i only get the map no player... nothing.

@rally_furymoments5294 Місяць тому

What is frame, and how do you count it?

@devtravaller 18 днів тому

frame count is how many sprite u have for animate

@Luis-wf9ws 13 днів тому

Animations(and games by extension) are made of images put one after another to give the illusion of movement, those images are called frames and the fluidity of a game depends on how many frames do you have in a second

@rally_furymoments5294 13 днів тому

@@Luis-wf9ws you're the best! You explain better

@rally_furymoments5294 13 днів тому

What about sprite?

@Luis-wf9ws 13 днів тому

@@rally_furymoments5294 they would be the drawings with what you compose the frame, if im not wrong sprite is a term specific to pixel art(the art style that use a los of 2d games, like this one)

@SheepCodeLevel1 18 днів тому

Hello, thank you for uploading this course. The player unfortunately does not load, I tried debugging the matter but still stucked so far. "Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'x') at Object.main" has been shown as an error. Appreciate any support, thank you.

@JSLegendDev 18 днів тому

Could you provide more details? For example, what line of code is causing the error. By the way, you can clone the final repo and compare it with yours to see where things went wrong.

@SheepCodeLevel1 17 днів тому

@@JSLegendDev Hello again and thank you for the hint, I did slowly recheck the code using the final repo and managed to find the issue, thank you for the hint.

@JSLegendDev 17 днів тому

@@SheepCodeLevel1 No problem! Glad it helped :)

@user-qc1qk1pw1v 6 днів тому

57:05

@UBCABANUPRASATHS 4 дні тому

When i click the download button the given Tiled software are not downloading

@phoneix24886 13 днів тому

3000.1.17? Goodness gracious

@JSLegendDev 13 днів тому

Yeah, Kaboom version naming is weird. 1000 is ver 1.0, 2000 is ver 2.0 and 3000 is ver 3.0.

@urosstevanovic6044 Місяць тому

i have a problem the player icon is not loading can someone help me please

@JSLegendDev Місяць тому

Could you provide more details?

@filippo_cecchi 15 днів тому

Hi, the code run fine in localhost but when i deploy it on github I see a white background and only the text top left. In console gives me an error failed to load resources 404 and 6 unchecked runtime error "the message port closed before a response was received". It's like it can't reach the libraries needed to run. Anyone has any idea on what should i do?

@JSLegendDev 15 днів тому

I have added a guide on how to deploy the site in the github repo linked in the description. Hope it helps!

@filippo_cecchi 14 днів тому

@@JSLegendDev Thank you. I finally fixed the code as the guide says, now it works perfectly!!

@JSLegendDev 14 днів тому

@@filippo_cecchi Nice!

@Wer-zo8mb Місяць тому

How can i make a React component with that game ?

@JSLegendDev Місяць тому

One way you could go about it is to use the div used for rendering the UI and use it as the root of your React code. All your React components will be rendered there.

@Wer-zo8mb Місяць тому

i'm really new to JS/React world, and i don't undestand much about it. Thx for the help@@JSLegendDev

@mataplay1632 Місяць тому

Brasil

@my-financial-wealthblog4423 27 днів тому

Why would you use vite if you can write in plain JavaScript?

@JSLegendDev 27 днів тому

You could use plain javascript (just load the Kaboom library via a script tag) without vite however you wouldn't get intellisense for the Kaboom library which is pretty helpful.

@TheAzovStar Місяць тому

This is a way to create another version of your portfolio, because 99.9% recruiters will not have a time to play😅

@VinSilverstone Місяць тому

Javascript 😁😁

@memaimu 25 днів тому

I'd feel bad using this. Feels like borderline plagiarism lol.

@AayushDubey_007 6 днів тому

jeNa can I join your clan?

@okonkworchizim6953 Місяць тому

2nd

@kuroshahplays Місяць тому

First

@gsdealer7691 Місяць тому

Make it a blockchain one...

@AB-kf4vp 27 днів тому

what is the use of studying coding now that all job will be done by AI and bot most peoples are scary for losing jobs in IT sector and new selection is only for highly IQ and skilled professional 😁

@hedgehogform 26 днів тому

It's cool but not practical as a portfolio. I wouldn't bother to go through that just to know what your skills are. No one has the time to play a game just to see your skills. I mean it could work if you're applying as a game maker creator for a game studio but as a website? No.

@benhasel4540 20 днів тому

most indie games companies have people who look for stuff like this. Of course it depends on where are you applying but for the game industry this is very cool!

@phat80 18 днів тому

The worst game development tutorial I’ve ever seen. You should run project at every step of the development and gradually show the progress. But you’re just writing and writing the code. It’s also a bad practice for beginners to write code in big chunks without even testing it.