What is a state in Phaser? I was helping someone in the Phaser Game Makers Facebook group a couple of weeks ago when the issue of states came up. In most technical of terms, a state is a class. The Phaser documentation describes it as follows: This is a base State class which can be extended […]
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Creating Movement Although we will create the illusion of running, as you probably have guessed by now, we will actually be moving the blocks. The temptation is to just move the group as one in the update function. update:function() { this.blockGroup.x–; } But if we did that we couldn’t take advantage of the built in
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This is a game I came up with during the long 4th of July weekend. I decided to make a video course from it. How to Play Click on a gem that is the same color or same shape as the last gem that you clicked, but NOT BOTH. Try to clear all the gems
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Fonts Before Html5 When I was using Flash, fonts could be a real pain. First I had to have the font installed on my computer. Then I had to embed it within the file. This made the file size go up. Back in 2005 when I was making games for the Japanese phone market, this
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How do I scale my game in Phaser? One of the many questions I’ve seen asked is “How do I scale my game in Phaser?”. I have seen a lot of different answers to this query. I’m not saying any of the other answers you will find out there are wrong. What I will say,
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Phaser Audio Delay This has happened to me so many times. I’m facing a Phaser audio delay again! I’ve got the game ready to go! The art assets are in, the scoreboards are working and the game has to launch tomorrow! I quickly throw in some background music and put it in a loop. The
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The Flintstone Effect This blog post is in response to a query by one of my Udemy students. We were discussing wrap-around effects. Originally we were discussing tilemap wraparounds which he had seen in a game. Though I haven’t quite gotten that one figured out yet, I did mention using two groups to create this
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