Build a Space Shooter with Phaser 3

Build a Space Shooter with Phaser 3 – 5

In the last part of this course, “Build a Space Shooter with Phaser 3”, we have added the bulk of our code for our space shooter. We have covered adding enemies, player lasers, enemy lasers, frustum culling, and collisions in the last part. There are a few things we will finish up in this part to conclude this course. We will be adding a scrolling background, filling in the main menu, and create the game over screen....

Build a Space Shooter with Phaser 3 – 4

In the last part of “Build a Space Shooter with Phaser 3”, we finished writing our base Entity class, our player class, and the player movement. In this part we will implement a couple enemies and give them basic AI. At this point you should have an error-free game where you can move the player around via the W, S, A, D keys. If so, it’s time to open Entities.js back up....

Build a Space Shooter with Phaser 3 – 3

In the last part, we finished setting up the basis for our scene files: SceneMainMenu.js, SceneMain.js, and SceneGameOver.js. At this point you can try running the game by navigating to localhost/(game folder name)/index.html. There might be a port that’s needed when viewing files on some web servers, for example, localhost:8000. If everything is right, you should see a black rectangle on the page. The black rectangle is the area where your game will be drawn....

Build a Space Shooter with Phaser 3 – 2

In the last part of this course, we finished creating the files and folders we need for our game. The next thing we need to do is start building out our index.html. In order to start coding our HTML and JavaScript files, you will need a text editor. If you have not programmed yet, any text editor will work such as Notepad, Visual Studio Code, Atom, etc. I personally use Visual Studio Code for web development, it’s fast and simply works....

Build a Space Shooter with Phaser 3 – 1

With the latest release of Phaser 3 (as of now, v3.16.1), there has never been a better time to jump into Phaser than now! In this free course, we will be exploring creating a basic space shooter with Phaser 3. I will start by saying that it is quite beneficial to have the basics of JavaScript under your belt. If you don’t, be sure to check out my free course, “JavaScript Beginner Blocks“....