Chapter 4Project: Moving Avatars

When you’re done with this chapter, you will

  • Know how to move the avatar with your keyboard

  • Begin to understand JavaScript events

  • Be able to move the camera with an avatar

In Chapter 3, ​Project: Making an Avatar​, we covered how to build a game avatar. An avatar that we cannot move is pretty dull. So in this chapter you’ll learn how to make the avatar move in different directions. We’ll also give it a little forest to move around in. It will end up looking something like this:

images/moving_players/when_you_are_done.png

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