You can access the full course here: Discover Developer Tools for JavaScript Apps In this lesson, we’re going to start the process of converting our client-side code to Node Modules and modern JavaScript. We’ll start by creating a package.json file which holds our Node Package Modules (NPM) configuration. This sets our project directory up to install … Read more
You can access the full course here: Discover Developer Tools for JavaScript Apps Webpack is an open source JavaScript (JS) static module bundler for modern JS Applications. This has two important implications. One, it means that Webpack is a JS Tool that runs at BUILD-time; not RUN-time which makes it an important part of a … Read more
You can access the full course here: Node.js and Express for Game Development Node.js is a cross-platform, Javascript runtime environment that executes Javascript code outside of a browser. To follow the videos, you will need Node.js installed on your machine. Go to nodejs.org on your browser. From here we will be able to download a … Read more
You can access the full course here: Bite-Sized HTML5 Game Development Part 1 Learning Goals Basic Phaser development environment. Setting up a web server. In order for you to start making games with Phaser you will need to have a web browser (Google Chrome will be used for this course), code editor, and a web … Read more
You can access the full course here: Intro to RPG Development with Phaser Part 1 Learning Goals Developer tools. Setting up a web server. Installing VS code. Downloading Phaser. Obtaining the Chrome Web Server Browser Extension Before we can jump in and start coding there are a few setup tasks that we need to complete. … Read more
In Parts 1 and 2 of this tutorial series, we started building our Phaser 3 MMORPG. In Part 2, we did the following: Refactored the client-side logic of our game. Updated the Player creation game logic. Added logic for creating the other players that joined the game. Added the logic for creating the enemy game … Read more
At the beginning of this tutorial series, we started building our Phaser 3 MMORPG. In Part 1, we did the following: We set up the basic project and installed the required dependencies. We added SocketIO to our project and added the server side logic for when a player connects and disconnects to our game. We … Read more
In this multi-part tutorial series, we will be creating a simple Phaser 3 MMORPG. This game will feature simple gameplay that will allow players to wander in a single area together, attack monsters, and chat. It will also include user authentication and use MongoDB for storing chat data. Therefore, it will be built using Nodejs, … Read more
In Part 4 of this tutorial series, we continued working on our Phaser leaderboard and we did the following: Updated our server to serve static files. Worked on the client side code by adding a login and signup page. Created a Phaser 3 leaderboard that displays the high scores from our database. Protected the game … Read more
In Part 3 of this tutorial series, we continued working on our Express server. We did the following: Updated our endpoints to store, retrieve, and update data in MongoDB. Used passportjs to add authentication to our endpoints. In Part 4 of this tutorial series, we will start working on our client side code by adding … Read more
