Category: Phaser Tutorials

This will be the first part in a new series I plan on creating for creating HTML5 games with the Phaser framework. We will be focusing on how to create bare-bones versions of common game mechanics with Phaser. The same basic game mechanics can be used to create a multitude of different styles of games. […]

One of the core concepts in Phaser is States. States split your game code up into logical chunks, and you progress through these states one at a time. Typically, you would have individual states for a level in your game, a title screen, a game over screen, a bonus round game, and so on. You […]

Many mobile games are 2D, and when building Phaser games for mobile 3D games are not really an option. To keep our games from looking boring and flat there are some techniques we can use to give them more of a three dimensional feel, while still actually being in two dimensions. One of these techniques […]

Since starting with Ionic 2 I’ve fallen in love with ECMAScript 6 (ES6), and once I started working with Phaser again it just didn’t feel as nice working with ES5. In this tutorial I am going to show you how you can use ES6 in your own Phaser games, but first let’s talk a little […]

In a few of my projects I’ve been using a pretty simple timer, the general idea was I’d start off with some variable to hold the total time of the game and then create a timer loop to decrement that value. I would visually represent that somewhere on the screen (usually a bar that gradually […]

In the last part of this tutorial, we started working our way through building a Christmas themed game in Phaser. If you haven’t read Part 1 yet, click the link below to catch up: Creating a Christmas Themed Game with Phaser: Part 1 To quickly refresh your memory though, this is what we are trying […]

It’s holiday season, and I thought I’d get into the spirit of things with a little Christmas themed content. I’ve been putting out a lot of Ionic 2 content lately so I’ve been meaning to put out some more Phaser content and figured this would be the perfect opportunity to make a Christmas themed gamed […]

In the last tutorial we started building a word searching game in Phaser. We set up the tile grid and a dictionary so that we could check if any particular word actually exists or not (or according to the dictionary we are using at least). In this tutorial we are going to extend on that […]

When it comes to games (and apps in general really), I’m a big believer that making your game just that little bit more juicy can make the overall quality and enjoyability of your game increase drastically. Juicy is clearly a pretty vague term, but I think it’s pretty fitting (think biting into a juicy orange […]

Puzzle games are all the rage on the mobile app stores, with the most notable being the absolute giant that is Candy Crush. Puzzle games are usually pretty casual games, but they have mass appeal right through from the most hardcore gamers to your friends mother who doesn’t know how to send emails. I recently […]

Rather than starting from scratch I started to take a look around to see if somebody had already done it and came across Bombevo which executes the concept very well in a fun game where you fight an alien space ship. This game was made for Ludum Dare and you can download the original source […]

Recently I wrote a tutorial on building an infinite climbing game in Phaser which borrowed some concepts from Thomas Palef’s tutorial on building a Flappy Bird clone but kind of flipped it on its head a little bit by generating the game vertically rather than horizontally. This game is going to be similar again in […]

I remember playing quite a few simple platformer games when I was younger where you would basically have platforms running vertically down the screen, each with a space somewhere to get up to the next level, and you would have to try and climb up the platforms before you hit the bottom. As I’ve mentioned […]

Recently I covered how to make a running platformer game in Phaser with Tilemaps, which used the Arcade Physics system. I’ve also covered how to set up the Ninja Physics system in Phaser. Now we’re going to combine both of those to make a running platformer game in Phaser that uses the Ninja Physics system. […]