---
title: "Phaser Backer Examples January 2019"
subtitle: "The January Phaser Backer Examples are now available including animated Tile Sprites and Pointer followers."
date: 2019-01-07T00:00:00.000Z
category: news
url: https://phaser.io/news/2019/01/phaser-backer-examples-january
site: Phaser - https://phaser.io
copyright: © 2026 Phaser Studio Inc. All rights reserved.
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# Phaser Backer Examples January 2019

*The January Phaser Backer Examples are now available including animated Tile Sprites and Pointer followers.*

![image](phaser-backer-examples-january.png)

Phaser relies entirely on community contributions to fund its development. Being a Phaser Backer entitles you to lots of great perks, one of which are exclusive source code examples.

Each month you'll get a new zip file with at least 10 examples and associated assets. The January pack was recently released to backers and includes the following:

* How to drag Game Object's with grid snap alignment
* Creating an animated Tile Sprite
* How to drag and zoom multiple Tile Sprites together
* Pointing a Sprite and Tile Sprite texture at a Pointer
* Getting a Sprite to smoothly follow the pointer
* Clicking to set a path for a Sprite to follow
* Multiple Sprites following a custom path
* Creating a Sprite 'train' follower effect
* How to 'throw' multiple Tile Sprites
* A nice little dynamic 'shake' tween effect

All examples are written in ES6, come packaged with an html front-end and use the latest build of Phaser (3.16) to demonstrate cutting-edge features.

Back Phaser today to get access to them instantly, along with lots of other benefits.

[Read More](/community/donate)

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- **The CLI** (https://phaser.io/cli): `npx -y @phaser-ae/cli` builds the game on the user's own machine with their own coding agent (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and others). In a game's folder every command is an npm script.
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