CreativeJS Games
A brand new course for 2013, CreativeJS Games is perfect for you if you’ve ever wanted to learn how to make HTML5 games or just add an extra sense of delight to your web projects.
“Seb’s CreativeJS workshops are a great reminder and refresher that programming can be playful… After the course, I found myself approaching issues more creatively and found more beautiful solutions. ” – Christian Heilmann, Mozilla
CreativeJS Games
With super fast JavaScript and the canvas element at our disposal today, it’s absolutely possible to make HTML5 games that work across all modern browsers. Giants like the BBC are converting their old Flash content into HTML, and starting to create new content exclusively with web standards. CreativeJS Games is the perfect way to level up your coding to be a truly inspired casual games programmer.
This two day workshop will teach you everything you need to know about making browser based games. We’ll cover key elements like animation, control mechanisms, playability, and collision detection. Of course there’ll be some necessary maths, all explained simply and clearly.
Later on in the course we’ll look at mobile specific optimisations and simple 3D to round out your game-making knowledge. At the end of this course you’ll be fully prepared to bring your own casual games to life with JavaScript.
Pre-requisites
These courses work equally well for programmers and designers. Whether you’re a coder who is excited about working with visual interactivity, or a designer who’s worked with basic JavaScript you’ll love learning creative code techniques.
Upcoming workshops:
| 25-26 Jun 2013 NEW |
Manchester, UK | 2 days | Booking info |
Registration : 9:30am
Training times : 10am to 5pm each day (2 day course)
Freelancers! limited discounted places available* Buy a ticket on both Manchester workshops and get a 15% refund on both tickets.
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CreativeJS and HTML5 (2D)
The original Creative JavaScript course, covering truly beautiful visual effects with JavaScript and HTML5. Learn how to draw, animate, and create engaging interactive content, with advanced mouse interactions, pixel manipulation, image blending, physics and games.
“Seb’s workshop was a delight… it is a must-attend: you’ll need these skills as a developer, but also you learn that it’s not nearly as hard as it looks.” – Paul Irish
CreativeJS 2D
We’ll start off with the basics of rendering into an HTML5 canvas, and animating simple objects with tweening, realtime easing and sequencing. We’ll then learn how to simulate physics without rocket science. And what better way to use physics than to make a particle system with sparks, smoke and explosions? Then we’ll explore how we can use these new found skills to make games.
Pre-requisites
These courses work equally well for programmers and designers. Whether you’re a coder who is excited about working with visual interactivity, or a designer who’s worked with basic JavaScript you’ll love learning creative code techniques.
NB this course no longer features 3D techniques – this has been expanded into its own course : CreativeJS 3D.
Upcoming workshops:
| 27-28 Jun 2013 NEW |
Manchester, UK | 2 days | Booking info |
Registration : 9:30am
Training times : 10am to 5pm each day (2 day course)
Freelancers! limited discounted places available* Buy a ticket on both Manchester workshops and get a 15% refund on both tickets.
Workshops as part of other events:
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CreativeJS for Designers
Workshops taught by Seb Lee-Delisle and Val Head*
Designers and artists can make the best creative coders! But coding can seem scary, and experienced programmers can often make it look harder than it is.
This course is aimed at creative people with no programming experience who are interested in experimenting with JavaScript and HTML5 canvas to create visual effects, animations, and interactions. It’s a much more interesting way to learn JavaScript than form validation!
“I’d always had a bit of a mental block about JavaScript, but that’s well and truly gone after Seb’s course. And it was great fun too.” – Bruce Lawson, Author “Introducing HTML5”
* For US workshops, Seb will remotely present some sessions, while Val Head will run the bulk of the workshop in person. All others run in person by Seb.
What wil be covered?
This workshop is different – every concept and principle we learn about is visual. We learn about variables by changing the position of rectangles. We learn about loops by making multiple shapes on the screen. Arrays and animation with particle systems, and logic and objects with a simple game engine.
Most of the examples will be using canvas, but we’ll also take a quick look on how to manipulate DOM objects with JavaScript controlled CSS. By the end of the workshop, you’ll be amazed at your experiments and be well on your way to become an accomplished creative coder.
Pre-requisites
No programming experience is required. None! If you’ve done a bit of HTML or CSS that’ll probably be helpful though. It’s going to be a relaxed, friendly environment where you are free to learn and experiment with class sizes kept very small.
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The Workshops
CreativeJS Training is a series of workshops focused on teaching visual effects and JavaScript in a creative way to both hardcore coders and designers with no programming experience. Running since early 2010 world-wide, these workshops sell out fast and have proved to be hugely popular.
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The CreativeJS Training workshops were developed by Seb Lee-Delisle, creative coder extraordinaire. Seb makes cool stuff with a wide range of platforms and technology. More about Seb.
Photo by John Davey
Val Head is a Designer and Consultant who loves to combine code and design whenever possible. She has been teaching designers and artists creative coding with Processing for the past two years.More about Val.
