The fact that 98.4% of all websites use JavaScript is why you should know it as a developer. In retrospect, making a game with JavaScript not only helps you learn fast. It also lets you master how to apply its simple to complex concepts in different on-the-job situations—whether you're a beginner or a refresher.

If you learn better with visual demonstrations, these JavaScript-based game tutorials on YouTube are worth your time.

1. Card Game With JavaScript

This JavaScript card game with Gavin Lon shows you the way around flipping cards with over 600 lines of JavaScript code. While the main focus is to teach JavaScript, you'll also learn to combine the designing power of CSS with HTML's DOM structuring to achieve responsiveness with JavaScript.

The project's end goal is to flip a couple of cards, and the player guesses the Ace when the cards finally switch spots. Each card is an image of four different card roles. So while you'll not design the cards yourself, you'll learn to manipulate their positions responsively, increment game rounds, add or remove scores as the levels change, and store game scores in the browser's local storage—all using JavaScript.

The tutorial is stepwise and easy to follow despite the heavy lifting you'll do behind the scene. It's perfect for beginners and refreshers. Although this is about building a card game, it exposes you to most of JavaScript's wiring techniques in real-life situations. Plus, it unravels your thinking-through ability.

2. 2D Breakout Game With JavaScript

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If you want to learn to control action intervals and move DOM elements dynamically using JavaScript, Ania Kubów shows how fun it gets with this breakout game tutorial using JavaScript. As a plus, the video also demonstrates how to host and showcase your project to potential employers.

Think about every possibility in a breakout game; a moving platform with a ball hitting walls tangentially to break bricks above it. And you'll code the reward system in this one too. Overall, this breakout game tutorial is worth considering if you want to build something from the ground up without using third-party agents or sourced images.

While wiring your logic within functions, the video teaches more about JavaScript class and object concepts in easy steps, including conditional statement best practices like the switch-case.

3. JavaScript Snake Game

Unravel your Nokia 3310's Snake II game nostalgia by building this JavaScript snake game with Kyle. You've probably played this before and will likely play it many more times in a lifetime since you'll code one using vanilla JavaScript.

While teaching you to wire the DOM together dynamically, this video demonstrates how you can build and use custom modules in JavaScript. So it opens an opportunity for you to learn about separating concerns using the do not repeat yourself (DRY) principle.

Behind the scenes, you'll master more advanced JavaScript concepts. Tasks, including creating a player grid, food placement, building the snake body, elongating the snake, coding the navigation logic, creating a reward and penalty scheme, and controlling the snake speed, will expose you to core JavaScript.

4. Tic Tac Toe Game With JavaScript

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Perhaps your Tic Tac Toe gameplay gets sharpened as you build one with JavaScript in another video with Kyle. This is a simple but valuable project for JavaScript beginners to munch on as you'll solve complex problems.

The video doesn't end with JavaScript only. It also demonstrates how to grip your user interface design using CSS. With consistency and commitment, you can learn almost every technique needed to start your web development journey in this video.

While manipulating the DOM with JavaScript, the video wraps the heavy lifting around coding win and draw decisions, deciding players' turns, and object alignment. JavaScript functions, loops, and conditions are some of the advanced concepts you'll learn in this JavaScript Tic tac Toe tutorial video.

5. Slide Puzzle Game With JavaScript

Puzzles can be thought-tasking. But building one with vanilla JavaScript sounds like a fun way to explore your creativity and learn basic to complex JavaScript concepts.

You want to code along in this tutorial—if you like to see how to use JavaScript concepts, including conditional switches and dynamic DOM position manipulation using custom and built-in functions.

Although the tutor places the JavaScript inside a script tag in the HTML file, you can spin your script in a dedicated JavaScript file and link it to the DOM in your case for clarity. Regardless, it's best to focus on the core logic and thought process to achieve your goal, including how to apply what you learn here to more real-life scenarios.

6. Car Racing Game With JavaScript

Building a car racing game using vanilla JavaScript might not give the best graphical output. But wiring a working car racing game while following this tutorial will teach you to leverage JavaScript's functionality-imbuing power in any application.

This tutorial involves placing two cars (a red and a blue) on a racetrack. The blue car appears randomly from any direction, and the red vehicle, representing the player, tries to avoid a collision. The game ends once there's contact between both cars.

Although that's a simple description of what you'll build in this one, you'll learn some JavaScript advanced logic for DOM manipulation and styling. You'll also gain insights into JavaScript operators while creating player rewards and penalties.

While adding functionalities to the track, some concepts you'll learn include JavaScript events, conditions, anonymous functions, JavaScript animation, interval control, and many more.

7. Mario Game With JavaScript

This JavaScript Mario game tutorial is all you need to dip your head into JavaScript's nitty-gritty. While making a Mario game with JavaScript sounds complex, Chris, your tutor, shows it's more than possible in this YouTube video. So you might want to catch the fun and explore your critical thinking ability by building along.

Although beginners might find the tutorial a little advanced, it's a brilliant quest for refreshers to take their JavaScript skills to the next level.

Besides learning about element manipulations, you'll use the power of pure JavaScript in building a responsive canvas boilerplate for the game interface using object-oriented programming (OOP). Since the player is actively motile, the application of JavaScript keyboard control, event handling, loops, operators, conditions, and built-in and custom functions, are among the cross-project experiences you'll gain.

8. Build Minesweeper With JavaScript

Want to explore the power of recursive functions and array methods in multiplying DOM elements with JavaScript? You might want to start with this JavaScript Minesweeper tutorial by Ania Kubów on Traversy Media.

It involves a lot of attention to detail. But it's a beginner-friendly tutorial and one of the best to wrap your hands around the grid layout system using JavaScript. The ultimate aim is to create a grid template where players avoid stepping on a mine.

As simple as it sounds, you'll write a lot of programming logic involving most JavaScript core techniques to wire the game's functionality behind the scene.

9. Pokemon JavaScript Game Tutorial With HTML Canvas

Pokemon is one of the most complex game projects you can build using JavaScript. However, if you're in for long rigorous coding hours with JavaScript and are ready to come out renewed with more confidence, you better hop into this tutorial.

In addition to DOM scripting and animation with JavaScript, the video teaches you how to move and render assets, including audio and images, using JavaScript. There's a lot that the tutorial unveils about JavaScript that you'll find valuable in any real-life coding problems.

In addition to other core JavaScript manipulatory techniques, the tutorial also uses the OOPs concepts heavily; this is valuable if you plan to later delve into TypeScript. One of the simplifying factors of this tutorial is how the tutor outlines the tasks.

It's easy to back out when you imagine the complex system you'll create to make this work. But think about what you stand to gain in the end.

Learn the Problem-Solving Applications of JavaScript

Games use some of the most responsive and intuitive logic in programming. So it's worthwhile learning JavaScript from making one. While these tutorials are game-based, they expose you to the JavaScript core concepts applicable to many other coding problems, including web development and mobile app creation. Even if you plan to later turn to frameworks, you'll apply these concepts regardless.