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 most useful features of Flash/Actionscript was the ability to dispatch custom events. Phaser does have an event class built-in and with a little ES5 magic, we can easily create a global messaging system. This post is part of a series of building a platform game in Phaser 3. You can find the
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I’m sure that some of you may be nostalgic for the days of youth when the Nintendo NES was the most popular game system on the planet. My first video game was pong, which was followed quickly by the Atari 2600. I saw the Nintendo controller a bit of a breakout. The way it was
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How do you get the height and width of a container? If you’ve been playing around with Phaser 3 containers for a while, and are accustomed to using Phaser 2 groups, you may notice some familiar things missing. A few months ago I added some sprites to a container for building some user interface components.
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Create A Text Style Library in Phaser 3 When I’m writing a game, I’m really into the logic of it. If I have to stop and look up fonts and colors all the time, my brain has to shift focus. In any case, I don’t like to throw things away. I did something in Phaser 2,
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