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title: "Stack the Crates Tutorial"
subtitle: "The Tipsy Tower prototype evolves into a full game, with orientation and responsive support, including source code."
date: 2018-01-16T00:00:00.000Z
category: tutorial
url: https://phaser.io/news/2018/01/stack-the-crates-tutorial
site: Phaser - https://phaser.io
copyright: © 2026 Phaser Studio Inc. All rights reserved.
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# Stack the Crates Tutorial

*The Tipsy Tower prototype evolves into a full game, with orientation and responsive support, including source code.*

![image](stack-the-crates-tutorial.png)

Emanuele Feronato has been writing a series of tutorials about creating a game like Tipsy Tower. In this concluding post he turns his tutorials into a complete game, Stack the Crates:

"It has all features required from a HTML5 game, including the “wrong orientation” detection and a responsive way to place some elements which should make the game look nice on every device (it could be a song: my game looks nice / on every device / play it once or twice / drinkin’ lemon ice), but it only has one game state."

[Read More](http://www.emanueleferonato.com/2017/12/22/play-stack-the-crates-html5-game-my-take-on-tipsy-tower-concept-source-code-available/)

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