Welcome to Issue 26 of Phaser World
Wow, it's been quite a week! On Tuesday it was Phaser's 3rd birthday. And while I forgot to bake a cake, I did write a retrospective about how it all started, and what Phaser v0.5 looked like :)
On the same day I was also interviewed by GitHub on their Developer Profile blog, which was an honour. And as if that wasn't enough I released Phaser 2.4.7 RC1 as well.
As usual we've got some great games and tutorials this issue too, including the frankly insane Cucumber Invasion.
Until next issue, happy coding! And drop me a line if you've got any news you'd like featured. If you get the newsletter by email you can just hit reply, or grab me on the Phaser Slack channel.
News
A Happy Birthday retrospective about how Phaser began, and where it's headed.
The latest version of Phaser is ready for you to test, with new features galore!
Read an interview with the creator of Phaser in the GitHub Developer Profile.
Games made with Phaser
Quest for enlightenment (and pasta!!1)
Game of the Week
As the pirate Al Dente can you find the gold, rum and fabled relics on your Holy Quest?
Staff Pick
Collect the blood as you fly to victory, then challenge the AI!
A brain teasing puzzle game where rotation and spinning is needed to solve.
Prepare to lose all sense of feeling in your trigger fingers!
Phaser Tutorials
Understanding Signals Tutorial
A guide on how to use Phaser Signals to dispatch your own events.
The second part of a tutorial series re-creating the game Pop The Lock.
Manage leaderboards in your game with App42 Cloud API.
How to create fun and interactive JavaScript games using Phaser.
Development Progress
Phaser 2.4.7 has come on a long way this week and we're now at Release Candidate 1. Please do grab it, merge it with your games, and let me know if anything falls apart as a result.
There are some nice new things in 2.4.7 including long-awaited camera effects. There are three new special effects: Camera Shake, Camera Fade and Camera Flash, working properly across Canvas and WebGL. You can configure each of them in various ways such as setting the effect color, duration and intensity. On complete signals are available for each effect so you know when they're done.
I also added in camera lerp support, with per-axis values, for really smooth camera motion and sprite tracking. It should make a big difference to how your games feel.
I'll see how 2.4.7 testing goes, but I think it should be safe for a release around April 21st. Generally, even though I ask for feedback, I don't usually get it until I release the build to master / stable :) Who knows, maybe this time will be different?
After 2.4.7 is out I'm going to focus on Interphase 2 authoring, so I'll be talking about that here, and showing you what's in store.
Geeky Links
These proved massively popular last week, with hundreds of clicks! So here's another batch. Nothing to do with Phaser, but enjoy them all the same.
Make Indie Games in Cape Town :)
Classic Programmer Paintings - I love 'java.date.util' !
The Encyclopedia of Atari demo effects - R is for Raster Bars
Phaser Releases
The current version of Phaser is 2.4.6 released on February 18th 2016.
Phaser 2.4.7 is at Release Candidate 1 stage and needs your help testing.
Get it from the GitHub dev branch.
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