Phaser

Phaser is a library that makes it easier to build games for the browser. It helps deal with a lot of the common features that most games have such as managing images, dealing with touch, mouse or keyboard input, or collision detection.

• website
• documentation
• examples
• forum

We'll start off on Tuesday by building a simple Pong game using the tutorial from here:

• http://dailyjs.com/2014/09/16/phaser-tutorial/

If you finish early, check out all of the examples for some inspiration, or work through the platformer tutorial:

• http://www.photonstorm.com/phaser/tutorial-making-your-first-phaser-game

Later this week we'll build our own Flappy Bird style games with Phaser, and next week we'll learn a bit about game design and start on group game projects.