PHASER GAME DEMO

The commits in this repo go step by step through the process of building a polished space shooter game with the Phaser.js HTML5 game framework.

You can follow through a written tutorial of this game with more commentary at on my blog.

Credits

• Many of the assets and the base for the game come from the invaders phaser examples.
• Cool enemy ship graphics from http://opengameart.org/users/skorpio
• Nice enemy lasers from http://opengameart.org/users/bonsaiheldin
• Font face is http://www.fontspace.com/nimavisual/trench

Very brief introduction to game dev concepts

Games are all about interactivity. A game is an experience that unfolds over time through a collaboration between the game creator(s) and the player.

3 facets to game design

1. Production values - graphics, sounds, special effects, polish
2. Content - story, theme, concept, characters, artwork
3. Gameplay - mechanics, challenge, pacing, fun, controls, "feel"

4 basic parts of game dev

1. Game loop - means to change and display state over time (usually for animation (at 60fps) but could be turn based)
2. Input - get input from the player (otherwise it is a simulation, not a game)
3. Update - change the game state based on internal logic and values and responding to player input
4. Render - redraw the visual representation of the game state at that time

Resources

Phaser:

• Examples - http://examples.phaser.io/
• API documentation - http://docs.phaser.io/
• Starting templates - https://github.com/photonstorm/phaser/tree/master/resources/Project%20Templates
• Forum - http://www.html5gamedevs.com/forum/14-phaser/
• Interactive mechanics examples - http://gamemechanicexplorer.com/
• Tons of online tutorials - http://www.lessmilk.com/phaser-tutorial/

Game assets:

• Sound effects (sfx) generator - http://www.superflashbros.net/as3sfxr/
• Custom bitmap font generator - http://kvazars.com/littera/
• Free art and sound database - http://opengameart.org
• Links to other more assets - http://letsmakegames.org/resources/art-assets-for-game-developers/
• Assets on redit - http://www.reddit.com/r/GameAssets

Additional topics not covered

• Best practices for more maintainable code and smaller files
  • Modular development (commonJS, etc)
  • Custom classes inheriting from phaser classes
  • Build tools (browserify, gulp, etc)
  • yoaman for scaffolding
• Scaling modes
• Optimization / profiling / debugging / testing
• Mobile
• Wrapping for native (CocoonJS, Cordova/PhoneGap)
• Communicating with server / multiplayer
• Tilemaps and other game types
• Marketing / distribution / monetization / 3rd party APIs