Craft a Mario-Style Platformer in Phaser 3

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!

Frameworks and tools covered: Phaser 3.9.0, npm 5.6, Node.js 8.11

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