This title is part of the HTML5 Game Development Mini-Degree

With the massive resurgence of classic, arcade-style games, knowing how to make your own platformer is a must for any game developer. The great news is that with Phaser 3, this is easier than ever before! This course will walk you through creating your own platformer game – similar to that of Donkey Kong or Super Mario Bros – completely from scratch!

As you build the game, you will be given a grounded understanding of all of the basics of platformer game creation – knowledge that you can apply to creating your own unique game projects.

You’ll learn all about:

Phaser’s Arcade System 

• Learn the basics of arcade physics
• Create new Arcade sprites
• Discover how to enable physics in existing Sprites

Movable and Immovable Objects

• Understand the difference between static and dynamic bodies
• How to disable bodies to make bodies immovable
• Creating tile sprites
• Detecting collision and overlap

Player Characters

• Implementing and animating walking and jumping mechanics
• Detecting player inpunt (via arrow/cursor key presses)
• Restricting player movement to the world bounds
• Detecting when a sprite is being blocked

Interactive Objects 

• Creating a looped event
• Generating barrels which bounce off level edges
• Destroying barrels after a certain point in time
• Learn about how you can recycle your objects with object pooling so you don’t have destroy them

….and much more!

About the HTML5 Game Development Mini-Degree

The HTML5 Game Development Mini-Degree is the world’s most effective way to master HTML5 game development. Gain life-long access to a curriculum of online video courses, featuring in-course student support and translatable closed captions as you learn how to code and create impressive games with Phase 3, the JavaScript library that has taken the developer community by storm. With no prior experience needed to enroll, you’ll soon be creating completely cross-platform games that will make your professional portfolio stand out from the rest.