This course uses Phaser 2, which is no longer officially supported.

To learn about our new Phaser 3 curriculum check out the HTML5 Game Development Mini-Degree

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The Complete Mobile Game Development Course is the world’s most comprehensive online curriculum on game development with JavaScript and Phaser 2. Start by learning to code in JavaScript from scratch by building a game. Dive into the Phaser game engine (version 2.x) and build several games of all genres – from platformers to puzzle games to RPG’s! At the end of the course you’ll also learn to publish your HTML5 games to native mobile platforms (iOS and Android) using Phonegap.

Besides making games you’ll also gain valuable app and web development skills

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Become a proficient JavaScript and HTML5 developer.
Understand the hybrid app development process.
Learn to publish games with Phonegap to iOS and Android
Monetize your games and apps with ads and in-app purchases.

Course author

Pablo Farias Navarro is a game developer and founder of ZENVA, where he has taught game development to +200,000 students and authored +50 courses. As part of his work in game development education, Pablo was invited to join the Intel Software Innovator Program, and has run game programming workshops in San Francisco, Brisbane and Bangalore. Pablo has been making games and coding since 1996.

These are the fun modules we’ve built for you

Module 1: Learn JavaScript by Making a Game

If you’ve never coded in JavaScript before or you feel like you need a refreshment, this module will give you the basic background to get started. In this module we build a zombie avoiding mobile game using JavaScript and the CANVAS API.

learn javascript by making a game screenshot

Module 2: Toddler’s Farm Animals

In this module we introduce the HTML5 Phaser library which is what is used throughout the course to create the rest of the games. The game we make in this module is a toddlers game similar to Fisher Price Animal Sounds.

Screenshot of the game we've built for this module.

Module 3: Grumpy Virtual Pet

In this module we introduce more Phaser concepts and we’ll craft a simple virtual pet game where you have to feed and entertain a demanding but cute virtual pet.

Screenshot of the game we built for this module.

Module 4: Monster Kong

In this module use the Arcade 2D physics engine to make a platformer game similar to old-school Donkey Kong, where you have to avoid fire and barrels that an angry gorilla throws at you. We also add mobile on-screen touch controllers.

monster kong game screen

Module 5: Space Hipsters Galactica

In this module we’ll build a multilevel spaceship game featuring cool particle explosions.

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Module 6: Infinite Runner

Infinite runners are a must! in this module you’ll create your first mobile infinite runner game that goes on, well, forever! We’ll look into how to increase difficulty over time and keep high scores stored on the phone.

Module 7: Multi-level Mario Style Platformer

In this module we’ll cover the free Tiled map editor so that you can visually create levels for your games and load them in your code. We’ll create a multi-level platformer game with enemies.

TIle-based Multilevel Platformer

Module 8: Veggies vs Zombies Defence Game

Veggies vs Zombies is a multi-level defence game where you have to defend your home from a zombie attack. Build your defences, collect resources and keep that zombie army at bay!

veggies vs zombies

Module 9: RPG

This module includes a retro RPG game (a bit rogue-style) with different enemies and quests. You can collect gold and increase your attack and defence stats. The game includes on-screen touch controls that you can customize and reuse in other games.

rpg

Module 10: Angry Chickens

In this module we use the Phaser P2 physics system to build a game similar to Angry Birds, where you have to throw chickens towards a bunch of ugly pigs and tear down towers of boxes. The P2 module is based on a standalone JavaScript library called P2.js which is used to make amazing 2D simulations.

Angry Chickens 2D simulation game

Module 11: Hipster Town Simulation

Town building game where the whole economy of a town is simulated: population growth, food consumption, jobs and revenue! Build houses, farms and factories to keep everything up and running. This game includes a draggable map as seen in most strategy games.

hipster town

Module 12: Candy Match-3

Let’s create a match-3 game. You know what I’m talking about 😉

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Modules 13: Point and Click Adventure Game

Backers of the Kickstarter campaign voted for this game genre!

This module teaches how to build a flexible point and click adventure game where all the elements and behaviors are loaded from external JSON files. Also, this module covers how to include custom fonts in your games.

Point and Click HTML5 adventure game

Modules 14: Strategy Game with Hexagon Tiles

Backers of the Kickstarter campaign voted for this game genre!

In this module we build a basic strategy game with a hexagon tile map. You control an army and your goal is to fight the enemy army and conquer their township. Enemy using have basic AI so be careful as they’ll attack you back.

Hexagon Phaser Game

Module 15: Dungeon Crawler Puzzle Game

This last module was kept a secret until release. This Dungeon Crawler game features procedural level generation, map exploring and very fun gameplay. A mixture between Windows mineswipper, RPG games, rogue-games, this game combines many of the different elements covered in the course.

dungeon crawler

Module 16: How to Publish Games to iOS, Android and Amazon

This module covers how to build and publish games to iOS, Android and Amazon using Cordova and the free IntelXDK tool.

Everything taught in this module applies not only to games, but to apps as well.

Module 17: App Monetization

This module teaches how to monetize your games (or apps) by adding ads to your games (using Admob), and in-app purchase (IAP) for iOS and Android.

You are free to re-skin, improve and build upon ALL the games, and publish them under your own developer account in the Apple App Store, the Google Play Store, the Amazon App Store and all other platforms.

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By making 15 projects you will have a strong portfolio that will impress potential employers, customers and of course your friends and family 🙂

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M1 – Introduction

M1 – Hello JavaScript

M1 – Variables

M1 – Arithmetic Operations

M1 – Console

M1 – Objects

M1 – Challenge – Objects

M1 – Challenge Solution – Objects

M1 – Strings

M1 – Arrays

M1 – Add and Remove Array Elements

M1 – Multidimensional Arrays

M1 – Arrays and Objects

M1 – Challenge – Adding Enemies

M1 – Challenge Solution – Adding Enemies

M1 – Functions

M1 – Scope

M1 – Nested Functions

M1 – Methods

M1 – Function Expressions

M1 – Drawing a Rectangle in the Canvas

M1 – Animating the Canvas

M1 – If – Else Statements

M1 – Boolean Expressions

M1 – Challenge – Conditional Movement

M1 – Challenge Solution – Conditional Movement

M1 – While Loops

M1 – For Loops

M1 – Break and Continue

M1 – ForEach

M1 – Bouncing Enemies

M1 – JavaScript Load Event

M1 – Mouse Events

M1 – Touch Events

M1 – Collision Detection

M1 – Adding the Goal

M1 – Sprites

M1 – Namespaces

M1 – Classes

M1 – Final Challenge – Multilevel

M1 – Final Challenge Solution – Multilevel

M1 – Outro

M2 – Intro

M2 – Setting up a Local Web Server

M2 – Creating a New Phaser Game

M2 – Loading a Sprite

M2 – Anchor Point

M2 – Scaling

M2 – Flipping

M2 – Rotating

M2 – Screen Scaling

M2 – User Input

M2 – Groups

M2 – More on Groups

M2 – Switching Animals

M2 – Tween Animations

M2 – Tween Callbacks

M2 – Spritesheet Animations

M2 – Audacity Basics

M2 – Adding Sound

M2 – Adding Text

M2 – Where to Find Free Artwork

M3 – Introduction

M3 – Basic Structure

M3 – Draggable Pet

M3 – Item Selection

M3 – Rotating the Pet

M3 – Placing Items

M3 – Moving the Pet to the Item

M3 – Pet Spritesheet Animation

M3 – Game Stats

M3 – Decresing Pet Stats

M3 – Multiple States

M3 – Boot State

M3 – Loading Screen

M3 – Home Screen

M4 – Intro

M4 – Basic Structure

M4 – Physics and Gravity

M4 – Collision Detection

M4 – Keyboard Control

M4 – On-screen Controls – Part 1

M4 – On-screen Controls – Part 2

M4 – Platform Group

M4 – Camera

M4 – Loading JSON Files

M4 – Player Animation

M4 – Fire

M4 – Level Goal

M4 – Pool of Objects

M4 – Bouncing Barrels

M4 – Using Rectangles to get Started

M5 – Intro

M5 – Introducing the Intel XDK

M5 – Basic Structure

M5 – Adding the Player

M5 – Shooting Bullets

M5 – Prefabs

M5 – Enemy Prefabs

M5 – Enemy Movement

M5 – Damaging Enemies

M5 – Particle Effects

M5 – Enemy Bullets

M5 – Reset Enemies

M5 – Pause Timer

M5 – Enemy Pool

M5 – Load Level

M5 – Multiple Levels

M5 – Level JSON Files

M5 – Soundtrack

M6 – Intro

M6 – Basic Structure

M6 – Pool of Floor Tiles

M6 – Adding the Player

M6 – Body Bounding Box

M6 – Player Jump

M6 – Collision with a Group of Groups

M6 – Platform Movement

M6 – Show Hard-Coded Platforms

M6 – Killing Platforms

M6 – Pool of Platforms

M6 – Random Generation

M6 – Random Coins

M6 – Kill Coins (text)

M6 – Collecting Coins

M6 – Moving Background

M6 – Game Over

M6 – Saving the High Score

M6 – Game Over Overlay

M7 – Intro

M7 – Basic Platformer

M7 – Introducing Tiled

M7 – Creating Layers

M7 – Loading Layers

M7 – Using All the Screen

M7 – Objects Layer

M7 – Read Tiled Objects

M7 – Creating the Goal

M7 – Multilevel Game

M7 – Enemy Prefab

M7 – Enemy Behavior

M7 – Loading Level Enemies

M7 – Hitting Enemies

M7 – Player Falling

M7 – More Info on Tilemaps

M8 – Intro

M8 – Basic Structure

M8 – Plant Prefab

M8 – Zombie Prefab

M8 – Damaging Plants

M8 – Pools of Plants and Zombies

M8 – Bullet Prefab

M8 – Shooting Plants

M8 – Shooting Animation

M8 – Sun Prefab

M8 – Sun Resource

M8 – Random Sun Generation

M8 – Sunflowers

M8 – Killing Zombies

M8 – Buttons Bar

M8 – Buttons Selection

M8 – Land Patches

M8 – Planting Plants

M8 – Loading Levels

M8 – Multilevel Game

M9 – Intro

M9 – Basic Map

M9 – Player Prefab

M9 – Hello World Phaser Plugin

M9 – Customzable Touch Controls

M9 – Top-down Movement

M9 – Item Prefab

M9 – Item Collection

M9 – Quests

M9 – HUD

M9 – Loading Items from Tiled

M9 – Enemy Prefab

M9 – Battle Object

M9 – Fighting Enemies

M9 – Loading Enemies from Tiled

M9 – Health Bar

M9 – Quest Overlay

M9 – Show Quests

M9 – Duplicating Objects

M10 – Intro

M10 – Basic Structure

M10 – How to Learn P2

M10 – Creating P2 Sprites

M10 – Collision Groups

M10 – Loading Level

M10 – Enemy

M10 – Loading Enemies

M10 – Setup Chicken

M10 – Preparing Shot

M10 – Throw Chicken

M10 – Maximum Velocity

M10 – Pig Chicken Stats

M10 – Ending the Turn

M10 – HUD

M11 – Intro

M11 – Basic Structure

M11 – Population Growth

M11 – Housing

M11 – Food

M11 – Industrial Output

M11 – Integrating Town

M11 – Buidling Creation

M11 – HUD

M11 – Dragging Map

M11 – Buttons

M11 – Button Selection

M11 – Building

M11 – Checking Building Overlap

M12 – Intro

M12 – Basic Structure

M12 – Populate Grids

M12 – Swap and Check Adjacent Blocks

M12 – Is a Block Chained

M12 – Find All Chains

M12 – Clear Chains

M12 – Drop Blocks

M12 – Update Grid

M12 – Create Block

M12 – Draw Board

M12 – Kill Block

M12 – Block Dropping Animations

M12 – Swap Blocks

M12 – Pick Block

M12 – Consecutive Chains

M13 – Intro

M13 – Basic Structure

M13 – Loading Things

M13 – Showing Text

M13 – Custom Fonts in Phaser

M13 – Collect Items

M13 – Item Selection

M13 – Interactions

M13 – Unlock Door

M13 – Change Room

M14 – Intro

M14 – Hexagons

M14 – Showing a Hex

M14 – Terrains

M14 – Auxiliary Methods

M14 – Getting Adjacent Cells

M14 – Showing Units

M14 – Showing Moving Options

M14 – Move Unit

M14 – Attack

M14 – Checking for Battles

M14 – Turn Logic

M14 – Enemy AI

M14 – Game Ending

M15 – Intro

M15 – Basic Structure

M15 – Surrounding Cells

M15 – Item Collection

M15 – User Stats

M15 – Get Free Cell

M15 – Procedural Generation

M15 – Procedurally Generate Items

M15 – Generate Exit

M15 – Multilvel

M15 – Generate Enemies

M15 – Enemy Stats

M15 – Battle

M15 – Fog of War

M15 – Clearing Darkness

M15 – Monsters Block Discovery

Phonegap – Introduction

Phonegap – Creating a phonegap project

Phonegap – Configuration, icons and splash

Phonegap – Phonegap build

Phonegap – Google Play publishing

Phonegap – App Store publishing

Phonegap – Challenge time

M16 – Intro to Hybrid Apps

M16 – Intro to Cordova

M16 – Using Cordova in the XDK

M16 – Hello World Cordova Plugins

M16 – Android vs Crosswalk

M16 – Integrating Cordova and Phaser

M16 – Preparing for Buildings

M16 – Publishing to the Google Play Store

M16 – iOS Overview and Certificate

M16 – Ad Hoc Building

M16 – Publishing to the Appstore

M16 – Intro the Amazon App Store

M16 – Amazon Account Creation

M16 – HTML5 Apps in the Amazon App Store

M16 – Publishing to the Amazon App Store

M17 – Admob Setup

M17 – Admob in Phaser

M17 – In-App Purchases on iOS

M17 – Example of iAP on iOS

M17 – In-App Billing on Android

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The Complete Mobile Game Development Course – Platinum Edition [2015]

Besides making games you’ll also gain valuable app and web development skills

Course author

These are the fun modules we’ve built for you

What do our current students say?

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