Published on 16th October 2015
Welcome to Issue 1 of Phaser World
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News
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The latest version of Phaser is out, along with lots of site updates.
A brand new advanced particle system for your games. Easily create stunning effects. Comes with over 200 examples.
Games made with Phaser
A relaxing puzzle game in a beautiful location.
Stunning split-screen shooting action for 2!
A retro inspired flip-screen action game.
Help the apes solve 30 challenging puzzles!
Trade, Fight, Harvest and Explore the stars.
A livestream coded Doodle Jump.
Interphase
Interphase is a 400 page bookazine complete with a coverdisk filled with source code, graphics and bonus content. It contains 8 complete games with detailed Making Of guides for each one.
There's a 100+ page comprehensive guide to the Phaser State Manager. If you've ever wondered how Phaser handles states or how to split up your game code, this guide covers it.
You'll also find 4 Tutorials covering topics like making a flip-screen game, projecting physics object trajectories and snazzy 3D effects.
Tutorials
Phase Tips is a lovely little plugin that allows you to create tool-tip styles pop-ups with ease.
This aims to be an exhaustive tutorial and example / boilerplate with hopes of teaching others the usage of Phaser's state management system.
A guide on using P2 with Physics Editor.
A series of 7 videos covering how to make a game with Phaser and TypeScript.
Give your game menu a nice bounce effect.
(French) Learn to make a game with Socket.io
Platformer Tutorial with Tiled Part 3. Adding lives and boss monsters.
This great guide shows you how to configure the Atom text editor with the tern-phaser plugin. Providing code completion for the Phaser library.
Phaser Releases
The current version of Phaser is 2.4.4 released on October 15th 2015.
Development of Phaser 2.4.5 is in progress in the GitHub dev branch.
Code Examples
Here's a selection of some new Phaser code Examples.
Learn how to use sprite.pivot to create interesting rotation results.
This example shows how to use the new Create functions to make sprite textures dynamically.
Use the mouse to click and draw a polyline. Click on the first point to close and fill the poly.