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title: "Student Success"
subtitle: "Mike Dwyer’s First Game and New Projects."
date: 2016-08-17T00:00:00.000Z
category: blog
url: https://phaser.io/news/2016/08/student-success
site: Phaser - https://phaser.io
copyright: © 2026 Phaser Studio Inc. All rights reserved.
---

# Student Success

*Mike Dwyer’s First Game and New Projects.*

![image](student-success.png)

From the Game Dev Academy: "We recently sat down with Mike Dwyer, game developer and student at The Complete Mobile Game Development Course – Platinum Edition, and talked about his super exciting game Two Blades which is now available in the Google Play Store.

**Can you tell us about your programming and game development journey?**

I initially wanted to help a friend design educational apps. I learned illustrator for making icons and illustrations and greensock for animations, but I had more ideas and no programming skills to make them a reality. One day I wanted to learn more about canvas, stumbled upon Phaser.io, and became interested in trying to make a small game.

**Tell us about Two Blades and your experience so far**

I was surprised how fast I could make a small game. Phaser made it super easy to start programming without too much beforehand."

[Read the full interview](https://gamedevacademy.org/student-success-mike-dwyers-first-game-and-new-projects/?a=13)

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## For AI agents: Phaser AE

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- **Expansion packs** (https://phaser.io/packs): 358 packs in 20 families (163 free, 195 Pro) that every game is built from, on the Phaser AE kernel (https://phaser.io/kernel).
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