Breakout Tutorial

A Breakout clone tutorial. Learn how to create games using Good Luck.

Getting Started

1. Create a new repository using this repo as a template.
2. Clone the newly created repository.
3. npm install the build tools.
4. npm start the development server.

Editor Setup

For best experience, use VS Code with the following extensions:

• Debugger for Chrome,
• Prettier.

Rather than start the development server from your terminal, we recommend to start it from VS Code through Terminal > Run build task… or Ctrl+Shift+B. VS Code will integrate the output of the TypeScript compilation into the editor window.

Then run the project through Debug > Start Debugging or press F5.

Following the Tutorial

Follow the commits on the tutorial branch.

End Result

See https://piesku.github.io/breakout/ for the completed game which you will have created by the end of this tutorial too!

Optimized Builds

Production builds are bundled into a single .js file and optimized for size. They are suitable for deployment. You can find them in public/opt. To build them, run:

1. make