Making a Phaser game in an 2 hours Most of the time I spend about a week or two on a game for my office, mostly refining things based on suggestions the team has made. When I’m doing my own games, however, there are times that I want to bust out a game in an …
As game developers, we usually concern ourselves with issues about how our main character is going to jump, or how to make that special effect work. The title screen is often pushed to last. While it may not take as much technical skill as the main game it is the first thing our players will …
Phaser Ripple Animation I recently needed a ripple animation for a background effect in a game I was putting together. The simplest thing would be to use a sprite sheet. After a few hours of looking and not finding, I decided to code the animation using Phaser’s graphics. Yes, I know that putting together a …
Dynamic Text Buttons using Phaser A lot of my game development time will be eaten up by looking for the right buttons or artwork. It drives me crazy when I want to code. I needed a good library of buttons. It will take up more of my time if I have to copy the buttons …
How to add a Message Box to your Phaser Game Have you ever needed to message a player in a game? Maybe a feature isn’t available yet, or the player doesn’t have enough heath for a specific attack. A convenient way is to implement a message box. Here is one method I use to do this: var …
The hard way! For a long time, I’ve been making sprite sheets by opening up my trusty old now discontinued Adobe fireworks (never could get the hang of photoshop). I would evenly space out individual images, resizing and repositioning until it was just right. There may be sometimes I will still do this, but more …
This post is in response to a Phaser Game Makers Group member’s question. The question arose from trying to convert a flash slot game into Phaser. Now most of us coming from flash remember that it is quite easy to make a button in flash with the IDE tool. By dragging images we were able to …
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 …
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, …
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 …