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hallo,

im a jr front end developer with some jquery knowlegde and some basic javascript knowledge. now i want to learn more about making html5 games and my question is: do i need more advanced javascript knowledge to start making games in impactjs? or can i, as a beginner, understand what its all about? :-)

thnx!

villete

do i need more advanced javascript knowledge to start making games

No. The classes are pretty straight forward. However, JavaScript itself sometimes does weird things. E. g. the modulo operator works slightly different than in other languages. To make sure that you don't get strange bugs, I'd recommend reading the first 5-10 chapters of "Professional JavaScript for Web Developers". It's a fast and easy read and you'll understand how "inheritance" and stuff like that is done in JS.

Especially if you know jQuery a bit and read the code of a plugin once or so, you'll understand the class structure of Impact's entities better.

However, just watch this video. It walks you through the code of your first game:
http://impactjs.com/documentation/video-tutorial-create-a-game
Then you can decide yourself if your JS-knowledge is sufficiently good to develop a first basic game. It should be though.

Edit: Check this out: http://eloquentjavascript.net/

Didn't read it, but gives you an overview and helps you to fill the gaps.

Edit2: This article gives you a learning schedule: http://javascriptissexy.com/how-to-learn-javascript-properly/

For me, reading the first chapters of the mentioned book above was enough though.

thank you so much for your reply! it is very helpful to me, especially the javascriptissexy link! :-D