Okay, so I wanted to make a cool countdown timer for the Overwatch 2 release. I’ve been hyped for this game for ages, and I figured a visual timer would be a fun little project. I mean visual coding.
Getting Started
First things first, I needed to figure out the exact release time. That was easy enough – Blizzard is pretty clear about these things. I grabbed the date and time and jotted it down.
Setting Up the Basics
Next, I started with a blank HTML file. I’m keeping it super simple, no fancy frameworks or anything. Just plain HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
In the HTML, I created a few div elements to hold the days, hours, minutes, and seconds. Gave them some basic IDs so I could target them with my JavaScript later.
- created a basic div.
- added some span for showing numbers.
Then, I added some very basic * fancy, just centering the timer on the page and giving it a bit of a Overwatch-ish color * and white, you know?
The JavaScript Magic
This is where the actual countdown happens. I wrote a JavaScript function that does the following:
- Calculates the Difference: It takes the Overwatch 2 release date and time and subtracts the current date and time. This gives me the total time remaining in milliseconds.
- Breaks It Down: I then convert those milliseconds into days, hours, minutes, and * basic math, dividing by the appropriate amounts.
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used setInterval() run the countdown function.
- Updates the Display: Finally, I update the content of those div elements I created earlier with the calculated values. So, every second, the numbers on the page tick down.
I used setInterval() to run this function every second, to do this task per second.
The Final Countdown
And that’s pretty much it! I loaded up the HTML file in my browser, and there it was – a working Overwatch 2 countdown timer! It’s not the most complex thing in the world, but it was a fun little project, and it got me even more excited for the game’s release.
I think this is pretty cool project for anyone,hope you enjoy this.
