Since forming Phaser Studio in December 2023, along with our partner, OCV, my priority was hiring the team to help me turn Phaser into what I always dreamed it could be. As you can imagine, this took up most of January, and after plenty of interviews and deliberation, the team has now settled down and is running at full steam.

So, what have we all been doing this week?

Francisco completed our brand new Phaser + Vue 3 Template. He's also the one responsible for publishing the 11 bundler templates we've released over the past few weeks. The Vue template was more involved than a typical bundler one, as it required creating examples of how to communicate in both directions between Phaser and Vue, so you can create your game UI using Vue components if you so wish. This template is soon to be followed with a TypeScript variant and then, of course, a React-based one.

Ben has been deep in the woods, researching our technical implementation of compressed texture support in Phaser. It's a feature I added to Phaser a while ago, but as part of his work on improving the renderer, it needed making more robust. As he dived in, he added support for additional color spaces, new texture formats, and better error handling if a device loads a texture it simply can't handle. All of this work will be available in Phaser v3.80.

Arian finished another new update to Phaser Editor. This brings in the ability to directly add and modify FX on Game Objects, so you can visually tweak things like Glow strength and colors. There are also other quality-of-life UI updates across the Editor. The new version will be released to coincide with Phaser v3.80. We will, of course, publish a separate release post all about this. Right now, Arian is doing R\&D on how we can offer you the ability to build your Phaser games into desktop and mobile apps directly.

Robert has been taking on the thankless but essential task of clearing out as many Phaser GitHub issues as possible and bringing the fixes and changes into v3.80. If you keep an eye on our commit history you'll see all manner of improvements thanks to him! Once 3.80 is released, his main task will be R\&D on ripping out all of the old CJS module structure from Phaser and seeing if there's an easy path to ES Modules without having to start again from scratch.

John has been working on the new website. We're still running the old version for now, which is literally held together with duct tape and staples. To add new articles, I have to literally edit an SQLite database directly! The work he's doing will replace all of this entirely with a proper back-end system, user management, content support, CDN-hosted images, and lots more. I can't wait for this to go live so I can finally stop having to scp files onto the server!

Can is knocking out Phaser game Ad Network templates. This week he finished our templates for AppLovin and Mintegral and started on TikTok. These are in addition to the ones already built for Google, Unity, and Meta. Our vision is that if you want to create a Playable Ad in Phaser, it will be super-easy, and we'll remove the API and integration hassle from the process. Actually, if this is something that interests you right now, feel free to drop me an email to discuss private early access.

Andrzej is our newsletter editor - and he's been doing a great job putting these together each week to keep the news flowing!

RGS - the team of designers at RGS have been working on lots of amazing art for the new Phaser site and products. Here are a couple of their early concept sketches. They've done a lot more, but I'm keeping it under wraps for now! Can't spoil the fun too much, can we?

And me? I've been doing all kinds of things. From helping with the templates to talking to customers, authoring news articles, and - shock-horror- even some coding!

There are some truly ambitious things on our roadmap, lots of which I don't want to mention just yet. Suffice to say, our immediate priority is getting Phaser v3.80 and Phaser Editor released and focusing on launching the new website and all the brand-new content we've been creating. Plus seeing where our R\&D will take us.

All of this is while continuing to talk to you to help steer us in the right direction when it comes to developing new tools and features. If you'd like to schedule an informal video or text chat with me, please click here, so you can tell me about your projects and things that would make your development life easier.