This page is about the Phaser Game Engine, a HTML5 based framework that focuses on making gamedev simpler and faster.

Introduction

Phaser is a easy fun and quick way to make games for the web! It includes everything you need to get your game started with a very loyal fanbase and a friendly community. In this article, I will show you what Phaser is really capable of.

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Phaser Game Engine

Download the latest version of Phaser from the official website. Or you could even create your own version of Phaser!

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  2. 3 Mighty Editor 3
  3. 4 Phaser 2.4.4 API Docs 0
  4. 5 Using Phaser with TypeScript 2

Learning Phaser

  1. 5 Phaser 2.4.4 API Docs 1
  2. 6 Flappy Bird in Phaser Tutorial 1
  3. 7 HTML 5 Shoot 'em Up Tutorial 5
  4. 8 2D maze game with device orientation 2

Rendering

Phaser uses Pixi.js to render graphics. Pixi.js is a powerfull HTML5 graphics engine that uses Canvas and WEBGL. Canvas is a 2D way to render which is very efficient and good looking. WEBGL has awesome shader effects but runs at low speed.

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  2. 3 Demo 2 3
  3. 4 Demo 3 2
  4. 5 Demo 4 4

But why should I care?

Good question, Phaser is growing rapidly and one of the biggest web game frameworks as of recently. It is used by many companies such as the BBC.

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  2. 3 Active Blog 0
  3. 4 | CBeebies Global 0
  4. 5 Games made with Phaser (2013) 1

Tools supported by Phaser

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  2. 5 ShoeBox 3
  3. 6 Jukebox/Howler/CreateJS compatible audio sprite generator 1
  4. 7 [Plugin] Juicy 3
  5. 8 Leshy SpriteSheet Tool 1

Audio

Phaser has great support when coming to audio.Wether it be looping or tuning the volume. Phaser has it.

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  2. 2 Fading 0
  3. 3 Pause And Resume 0
  4. 4 Audio Sprite 0
  5. 5 Audio Sprite Json 0

Mobile Support

Phaser is a Javascript engine. Javascript runs on phones. Phaser makes porting to mobile as painless as possible, only having to redo touch controlls and a few changes and boop! It works!

  1. 1 Virtualjoystick 1
  2. 2 Shoot Em Up Example 5
  3. 3 Easy Debugging 3
  4. 4 Dpad 0
  5. 5 Ease of use 0

The Dev Team

Richard Davey has been working on Phaser actively since 2012, support him down below! V

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  2. 3 Phaser Store 2
  3. 4 Richard Davey (@photonstorm) 0
  4. 5 IRC Channel 0
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