How to create a rotating crank for a Puppet Bird style game.

Posted on 18th Jun 2021. Follow @phaser_ and get the Phaser World newsletter.

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Emanuele Feronato writes: "Some years ago I had a couple of hours of fun playing Puppet Bird, a game in the Flappy Bird family, which unfortunately seems to be no longer available on the stores, but if you do not know the game, here it is a video of the gameplay.

You control a little string-secured puppet with a wheel at the bottom of the screen and move it through a moving obstacle course.

In this first part, we’ll build a prototype to move the character in this original way.

The core of the concept is you must drag to rotate a wheel, or a crank, and since there is no need to reinvent the wheel, there is an interesting plugin by rexrainbow at this page.

This is what I was able to build in about 50 lines of code ..."

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