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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Learn from World-Class Instructors

Our course instructors participate in elite developer programs and have been recognized for their demonstrated excellence in development and teaching.