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Hey. So, while working on Brickout, I was adding a feature that allows the bricks to descend one level after clearing so many of them, much like Atari’s Super Breakout. Everything was working fine, until I encountered a problem. Eventually, the collision between the ball and bricks wasn’t working. The ball was going right through …
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Hey. I added scoring. I’ll be adding balls (lives) logic next, when you lose a ball, followed by “game over” logic. Then will come additional levels. This is one of those games that will have infinite levels, ending only once the number of balls remaining is zero. Then, I’ll add items (yeah, I got a …
Hey. When I’m building a game, I prefer to have a visual editor when placing as many objects as possible. This includes user interface such as HUDs and text. So, I’m adding text to my Tiled map to have Phaser’s Tilemap object load it for display. I’m using Phaser.BitmapText, but Tiled uses fonts installed on …
Hey. Just a quick update on this Memorial Day weekend. Made some more progress and got the ball colliding with the walls and the payer’s paddle. Added a repeating background as well. Next will be the bricks collision. For now, it’s pulling those multi-colored bricks from a tiles layer in the map, but I’ll be …
Hey. I want to fill you in on the tools and resources I use when I’m coding games. This is not an exhaustive list. Coding Editors/IDEs FlashDevelop My current go-to IDE for all things ActionScript 3. I also like how it can download and configure updates of the Adobe AIR and Flex SDKs. Adobe Flash …
Hey. I’m currently working on the first game engine to post (which will be a Breakout engine, using Phaser). Since I prefer to have some sort of visual editor, so I decided to use Tiled Map Editor. I found some tiles to use for the game. Very awesome looking set, by a dude names Matriax. …