BUILD PACMAN

In Media Res

1: Drawing A circle

1. Installation
2. Creating your app
3. Displaying a box
4. Drawing a circle
5. Setup complete

Training

2: Getting up to speed

1. Components
2. Handlebars
3. Canvas
4. Css
5. Canvas context and drawing
6. Let
7. didInsertElement
8. Functions
9. import/export
10. Feeling good yet?

Control

3: Input

1. Steal This Code
2. Bringing it in
3. Mixins
4. Defining keyboard shortcuts
5. Hashes
6. Logging
7. Summary

Displacement

4: Movement

1. Properties
2. Updating Properties
3. Moving the PAC
4. Clearing the screen
5. Extracting methods
6. A computed property
7. Summary

Barriers

5: Enclosure

1. Alignment
2. If statements
3. Fully functional collisions
4. Handlebars Binding
5. Summary

The Maze Inside

6: Internal Barriers

1. Drawing a wall
2. Walls, arrayed before us
3. Drawing all the walls
4. Call the Draw
5. Wall Collisions
6. Summary

Clearing a Path

7: The Grid

1. Seeing the grid
2. Arrays of arrays
3. Displaying the grid
4. Calculating the level width and height
5. Deep gets
6. Moving through the space
7. Summary

First Harvest

8: Pellets

1. Drawing Pellets
2. Say what you do, do what you say
3. Scope Troubles
4. Fat Arrows
5. Share your circle
6. Processing the pellets
7. Summary

Gains and Losses

9: Scores and Levels

1. Keeping Score
2. Level Up
3. New Syntax
4. Summary

Smooth, Efficient

10: Animations

1. Coordinating Directions
2. nextCoordinate and Interpolated Strings
3. Looking ahead with the Grid
4. Smooth Animations
5. Guarding our movement
6. The Movement Loop
7. Ember.run.later
8. Drawing with FrameCycles
9. Summary

No Stopping

11: The Game Loop

1. Rollin rollin rollin
2. The Intent system
3. Summary

Objectifying

12: Separation of Concerns

1. Defining new files
2. Return of the ES2015 Modules
3. Classy Systems
4. Mixins
5. Classes and Instances
6. Summary

Loyalties

13: Separation of Concerns

1. Separation: Pac Object
2. Separation: SharedStuff Mixin
3. Separation: pac-man Component
4. Separation: Partial method extraction
5. Resyncing on Restart
6. Summary

Separation

14: Level Out

1. The Level Object
2. Restarting It All
3. Making it all fit
4. LessSharedStuff
5. Another Level
6. The Level Gains More Regulatory Power
7. Summary

First Haunting

15: Ghostly

1. The Ghost Itself
2. True Colors
3. Movement: It’s alive!
4. Heat-seeking Ghosts
5. Map
6. Where’s the Pac?
7. The (Weighted Random) Chase
8. Summary

Sacrifice

16: Contact

1. Multiple Ghosts
2. Better Arrow Functions
3. Collision Detection
4. Places, Please
5. Super Spread(optional)
6. Level Knows Best
7. Extra Lives
8. Summary

Ruins

17: Moving On Down

1. The Level Array
2. Changing Levels
3. Summary

Patrol

18: Teleport

1. Finding What to Change
2. Where Do We Go From Here
3. Turning It On
4. A Teleport-First Level
5. Summary

A New Hope

19: Power

1. On The Map
2. Changing Colors, Ternary Operators
3. Resetting the Level
4. Summary

The PACs Strike Back

20: Turning the Tide

1. Ghost Run
2. Shorthand Operators
3. More Specific Collisions
4. Full Retreat
5. Regroup
6. Summary

The Return of the Jihadi

21: Time’s Up

1. Timers
2. Power Waning
3. A New If
4. Changing Colors
5. RGB
6. Mixing Colors
7. Retreat, Redone
8. Summary

Epilogue

What’s Next?