So there are many ways to go about working with time in Phaser. Yes if I really want to I can just create my own date objects, and use them as a way to control frame rate, and when certain events will happen when making a project. That is a fine and good when it comes to making a game vanilla js style, however if I am using a frame work I should use what is given in that in order to help save time with making my own solutions. In most cases the framework built in solution for something works just fine, and I should only bother making my own solutions if doing so is called for. In any case this post is about timer events in phaser ce, and how working with them can help make quick work of setting up things that need to happen every now and then when making my game logic.

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When making node.js command line tools there might be a desire to make a command line tool where I drop into a shell in which I can enter commands to preform certain actions. Some examples of this might be the shell in mongodb where I can call methods, and full scripts from a shell that I can enter when calling the mongodb binary. Another example would be some of these command line text editors that involve entering commands to insert text, delete, and so forth. Once node.js built in module of interest when it comes to this might be the readline module, it allows for me to write an event handler for each time return is entered from the standard input in a command line interface. In this post I will be writing about this module, and give some copy and paste examples.

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In phaser the world is where all game display objects are. It is a 2d, well, world in which these display objects can move around by way of player input, or some kind of ai script. In this post I will be writing about some examples in which I am just creating one or more display objects, and then moving around in this world. There are some basic things one should know about such as how to have the camera follow a sprite, which is often desirable for most projects. So this should be a fun post.

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For this post on phaser ce I will be writing about ways to go about making a sprite sheet from a canvas element, rather than loading an external asset. This can be done a number of ways, but in this post I will be using the 2d canvas drawing context in a canvas element and pass that element to a method that can be used in the phaser cache to create a sprite sheet from a canvas element.

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So for todays post on the html5 game framework known as phaser ce, the community edition of phaser ce. I will be writing about a way to go about making sprites form 2d canvas elements. This means making a sprite using the html 5 2d drawing context via a canvas element that has been made before hand elsewhere, or directly drawing to a new one. In any case the canvas can be used to make an instance of bitmap data that can then be used as a texture for a sprite, rather than an external image. I will not be getting into how to go about spritesheets for now, as I think that should be a whole other post.

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