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!
Courses by the World’s Best
Our course instructors aren’t just fun to learn from – they’re also serious gamers, qualified coders, and have been formally certified for their excellent programming and teaching skills. That way, you can be confident that you’re developing strong, modern skills that will set you up for success as a game developer.
YOUR COURSES, YOUR WAY
Learn with project-based courses that are designed to be flexible – access them 24/7, fit them around your schedule, and choose the learning materials that suit you best.
You can even download your course videos and watch them offline using the Zenva app, available on iOS and Android.
✅ Watch video lessons
✅ Read text summaries
✅ Explore interactive lessons
✅ Practice with source code
✅ Build real projects
✅ Earn completion certificates
ACHIEVE REAL RESULTS
Our community of 1,000,000+ learners and developers have used the skills learned with us to publish their own games and websites, land their dream jobs, and even start their own businesses – and you have the potential to do the same!
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MONICA MANCUSI
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CRAIG BICKFORD
I chose Zenva because of the large selection of topics and the fact that I can choose what courses I want to take whenever I want to take them. That level of freedom is unique to Zenva.
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ANDREA CARDENAS-ROEDER
The Unity courses at Zenva helped me achieve a level of comfort with game development that I didn’t think was possible. They give you the confidence to expand your skills, and were so easy to understand.
