Phaser Containers Alternative As a developer for a gaming company that has a lot of feedback from its users I understand that people can get very passionate about the features that they’re used to having. I’m afraid I was a victim of that passion about a week ago when I saw this notice from Richard …
Scaling Games in Phaser 3 with an Alignment Grid As game developers, one of the challenges we have faced since the invention of the smartphone is how to scale the game so it will fit on whatever device the player has. Scaling games in Phaser 3 is no exception. There are a lot of different …
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Deja Vu All Over Again! If you ever get a Deja Vu feeling when you are coding, it is probably time to put that code in some form of reusability! I found myself writing a lot of the same things over and over, so I built these classes for my personal library. Here are a …
Let There Be Snow! I’ll admit I’m not anywhere near snow while writing this, but I love it as an effect in a game, and since it is seasonal to Christmas time, I was inspired to put this together. The original code Originally I had placed several flakes, which was a simple Phaser graphic and looping …
The Event Dispatcher In my opinion, one of the best and most overlooked features of Phaser is the Signal class. With just a few steps you can create a clean global broadcasting system. It also eliminates the headache that javascript often causes with scopes and callbacks. Here’s a quick example to show you how to …
Why I’m using an Alignment Grid I’ve been writing a lot of Phaser Code for an app for my company. I’ve been using percentages of the game’s width to be able to place the elements. This does work but it has been very time consuming to put together pop-up screens quickly. I needed to come up with …
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 …
How to Drag Groups in Phaser I’ve often come across the problem of needing to drag groups in one of my projects. This has stumped me for the last few days with a project I’ve been working on for my day job with Gaiaonline.com. I’m currently building an app that requires me to display a …
Javascript Classes I feel like I’ve been living under a rock! Javascript classes have been around for over a year now! This changes everything! Let me explain. Over the last 16 years, most of my game making time was spent using Flash. One of the nice things about Flash’s Actionscript language was that it was …
In this video, we look at how to make and shoot missiles in Phaser with only 23 lines of code! The basic idea is to create a sprite, the missile, inside of a group. We place the sprite at the x position of the mouse and the y position below the height of the game. …