In my last post, I went over how to load tileMaps in phaser 3 using arrays. It is a good method for loading small maps, but most game developers use tools like the Tiled Map editor to create large maps. When we use tools like this, we need to load the map from a JSON […]
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TileMaps in Phaser 3 are very popular with developers because they allow us to rapidly build worlds for our players to explore. Not just in Phaser! Most modern game frameworks support TileMaps. I’ll admit I’ve had trouble with tileMaps in Phaser 3 before. I kept giving up and writing code to get around them. I
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If you are using balloons in your game, then you’ll want to make them float. To use floating in Phaser 3, you simply need to use a negative value for the Y property of gravity. To make an object float diagonally simple set the X property. Check out this code sample to see what I
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Anyone who has ever made an RPG game knows how important health bars can be to a game. However, this technique can also be used for timer bars or loading progress. This uses Phaser’s built-in graphics class and uses no images.
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For a long time I was using this.sprite.scaleX=-1 like I learned to do in ActionScript 3. The trouble is, if you have scaled your sprite, you need to do a little more maths. The flipX and flipY make everything much cleaner and much easier to flip a sprite in Phaser 3
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One of the things missing from a lot of modern frameworks is the ability to detect a double click. When you come down to it, a double click is simply 2 single clicks close together. All we really need to do is measure the time between clicks. We can do that by measuring the delta
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Recently I had a project that required me to use Unity and I liked how the deltaTime was built in. I’ve been using elapsed time in a lot of code from Flash to Phaser, but it occurred to me that developers that were moving between Unity and Phaser might be looking for a way to
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I received a request for help from another developer who wanted to be able to click on different cards and have a big image of that card appear so I offered to give him my solution and here it is below. I’ve tried to keep everything very simple and I’ve made a corresponding video to
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The anchor or point of origin refers to what part of an image or object the X and Y position refer to. In most cases, this will be the top left corner or the middle of the image.
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Using ladders in Phaser 3 is tricky. Not only do you need to detect when a player touches the ladder, but you also need to know when it stops touching as well. The technique that I’ve decided to use here, will allow us to call a function to check if any ladder is being touched
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