Welcome to Issue 25 of Phaser World
There are some truly inspired new games this week, including an isometric banana collect-em-up, and a point and click music adventure. And if the insane difficulty of Cube Story is too much for you, you can always swear and rant at Big Man!
Once you've seen the great new games and tutorials be sure to scroll down to the Development Progress article. Because I've been busy this week! and there's plenty of cool stuff inbound in Phaser 2.4.7.
Until next issue, happy coding! And don't forget to drop me a line if you've got any news you'd like featured.
Games made with Phaser
Game of the Week
Collect the bananas in this lovely procedurally generated puzzler.
Staff Pick
A point and click music adventure full of audio and time based puzzles.
A colorful bridge running game for iOS and Android.
The short story about a cube and its journey in the infinite world of ups and downs.
The world's first artificially intelligent, stress relieving game.
Phaser Tutorials
How to Use Phaser Signals to Save Game Statistics.
A Mandelbrot fractal explorer in a few lines of Phaser code.
The first part of a tutorial series re-creating the game Pop The Lock.
The second episode in the video series covers Tilemaps.
Hello World AirConsole tutorial: your first AirConsole project.
Development Progress
It has been fantastic working on Phaser again. I have to admit that while building out Lazer is fun, going back into the Phaser source is like putting on a comfy slipper. Last week I promised that I would dedicate time to preparing Phaser 2.4.7. Thanks for those of you who buy the plugins and books we sell, as well as our fantastic patrons, that is exactly what I've been able to do. And what a productive week it has been!
I've spent hours pouring through the GitHub issues and swatting bugs left, right and center. It's at the point where the issues list is down to just 20 items (5 of which are feature requests or Pixi bugs). This is a very nice place to be for sure.
There's a lot of stuff in 2.4.7, some of which is pretty exciting. You can view the change log for an idea of what to expect. So far we've 17 brand new features, 20 updates and 23 bug fixes.
But one of the biggest changes is with Arcade Physics. I sat down and optimized the collision process, reducing the number of intersect calls by a third for every single Game Object checked. I also reduced the calls made to seperateX and seperateY by the same factor, and internally optimized them significantly.
Over the past few days I've also been adding circular body shapes to Arcade Physics. Traditionally it has always been about rectangles, but sometimes you need circles, and ramping up to use p2 or box2d may have been a jump too far, especially on mobile. So I've bought circles into Arcade Physics. It's still in testing, but early results are very promising.
Right now I'm aiming to release 2.4.7 next week, after which I'll keep a close eye on the GitHub issues so they don't rack-up again. I will then move back to Lazer development, and finishing authoring Interphase 2.
Geeky Links
I thought I'd share a few things that caught my eye this week. These are nothing to do with Phaser, but I hope you find them fun all the same.
A 3D dungeon game in 10 lines of BASIC on an 8-bit Atari!
A stunning audio-visual mix (begging to be a game?)
Apparently there's a new Star Wars film coming out, or something.
My newest addiction: watching the WotC team play the D\&D game Curse of Strahd on twitch every Tuesday.
Phaser Releases
The current version of Phaser is 2.4.6 released on February 18th 2016.
Phaser 2.4.7 development is taking place in the dev branch on GitHub.
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