Digital Pet / Tamagotchi
Explore how to build a simple, interactive virtual pet game using JavaScript. Learn to track variables like hunger and happiness, update the display with user interaction, and manage your pet's mood over time. This lesson helps you understand state management, event handling, and logic in a fun project.
Let’s create a fun little creature that responds to your care, like a virtual Tamagotchi! A Tamagotchi is a handheld digital pet from the 90s that needed regular feeding, playing, and attention to stay happy. You’ll use logic and state to manage its hunger and mood. The following will be the final program output:
Goal
You will learn to:
Use variables to track your pet’s state.
Update the screen when buttons are clicked.
Add logic to change the pet’s behavior based on happiness and hunger.
