Building Pong With and Without a Game Engine | Project #1

How much harder is it to make a game without a game engine? To find out, I decided to build Pong twice — once with JavaScript + HTML5 Canvas and once with Godot. This is Project #1 in my game engine development journey. By building the same game both with and without an engine, I want to understand what a game engine actually does for us and how much work it handles behind the scenes. In this video, I work through things like: • Game loop • Player movement • Collision detection • Simple AI • Game logic and math • Scoring and win conditions I also compare the two approaches and see what changes when an engine like Godot handles some of the underlying work. This is only the beginning of the journey. Next up: Snake. TUTORIALS / LEARNING RESOURCES Without a Game Engine — JavaScript + HTML5 Canvas CodeOde — Create the Pong game in Javascript    • Create the Pong game in Javascript   I used this tutorial as a learning resource while building the JavaScript + HTML5 Canvas version of Pong. With a Game Engine — Godot Kaan Alpar — How to make PONG in Godot 4 for beginners    • How to make PONG in Godot 4 for beginners   I used this tutorial as a learning resource while building the Godot version of Pong. ASSETS & CREDITS Icons: Tabler Icons — MIT License https://tabler.io/icons Visual assets: Designed by Magnific https://www.magnific.com/ #GameDevelopment #Pong #JavaScript #Godot #GameEngine