HTML5 Game Development: 2D Platform Game Fundamentals

Learn Phaser and modern web development by building a 2D platform game for your web browser

Created by: Jed Hastwell
Games/Web Developer and Teacher

What Will I Learn?

• HTML5 Game development using Phaser
• 2D platform game fundamentals
• Webpack and Phaser: Utilising up a robust base project
• How to work with sprites and spritesheets
• Loading game assets
• Character animations
• Capturing user input
• Platform game physics
• Character movement
• Finite state machine pattern
• Handling collisions
• Level building with the Tiled level editor
• Cameras
• Parallax scrolling

Requirements

• Basic experience with programming in Javascript or another programming language

Target audience

• Anyone with an interest in learning how they can build their own 2D platform game
• Beginner Javascript developers curious about building games for the web