Let’s build a modern tic-tac-toe game with jQuery, complete with player names, SVG tokens, adjustable board sizes, scorekeeping, and replay controls. Along the way, we’ll use semantic HTML, CSS Grid, and beginner-friendly JavaScript to handle turns, wins, and draws.
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Though it’s been a while, I think the time has come to revisit one of my previous tutorials: the Mahjong game. For those of you that haven’t read it, the Mahjong tutorial went throughthe stages of creating a very basic Mahjong game: the graphics, the layouts, the boards and all the rest. Since I published […]
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Today’s post is a rather short and simple one. In most client-based games today, you can move using your keyboard. Browser-based games, however, are usually controlled using the mouse. But though using the arrow or WASD keys to interact with web pages is not too common, it can still be quite useful. In a web […]
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Over the course of the previous posts, we’ve built and set up the entire infrastructure for our mahjong game. All that is left now is to create the actual game logic. Let’s start by going over the required functionality. What do we have in this game? The blocks are arranged in layers, and there can […]
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In the previous posts we created most of the graphics needed for the mahjong game, and built the layout files that we will use. Now it’s time to put those layout files to some use.
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In the previous post we created most of the graphics needed for the mahjong game. Now, it is time to create the board itself. Since we are dealing with a lot of elements here (at least 144 objects for the tiles alone), it is better to build the layout on the server side. To do […]
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The next game we’re going to build is a Mahjong solitaire game. Mahjong is a tile matching game which I feel is a natural step forward from the Memory game we created in the previous post, so if you haven’t read that post yet, you might want to give it a look. Since this is […]
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So, I got up this morning to find that my 3.5 year old daughter is busy playing on my laptop. She decided she wants to play so she found the CD for her game, opened the DVD drive and loaded her game. She was very busy playing when I got up, and needless to say […]
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jQuery custom events example
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First, let me start by explaining the purpose of this blog. I usually think that the best time to explain why something is starting is at the beginning… so here goes. There are a lot of sites, blogs, and portals around that teach and explain how to do this or that in web development, so […]
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