Continuing the series of building a multiplayer poker game, I’ve decided to make a big turn in how the game will be built.
I’ve decided to give Arian’s latest version, Phaser Editor v3, a try.
Why? All my previous projects were deep in v1 or v2. However, I haven’t gotten very far into this Poker project, so it was easy to switch it from v2 to v3 sooner rather than later. Plus, after comparing its functionality with that of previous versions, it made sense to at least give it a try. And so far, it’s working out well!
Now, the biggest attraction, at least for me, was the fact that prefabs were back, which we haven’t seen since v1. Using factories in v2, while they took a bit of work to get them the way that I wanted, allowed me to learn a lot about how custom factories work in Phaser.
At the time of this article, v3 doesn’t yet supply an animations editor, or texture atlas editor. But that’s ok!
For animations, you can use a tool called Animator. You can learn more about animations in v3 here. I haven’t needed to use animations for my Poker game (at least not so far), so I can’t vouch for this tool. However, it is an option.
For texture atlases, you can use Texture Packer, which I’ve enjoyed using quite a bit over the years. To learn more about atlas editor usage in v3, as well as other options, check here.
Since this version now works in your browser (which also significantly reduces its download size), you start it up using your command prompt. So I made a simple batch file which starts the editor with the -desktop option since I work with a local server. My projects workspace is also in a location different than the default workspace, so I use the -ws option. For a full list of options, see this page.
As I’m learning the rules for Poker, the interactive tutorial on this page has been very helpful. Also, playing this game has also been useful. (No, I haven’t been screwing around, getting sucked into playing! Nope. Not me.)
That’s all for now. I’ll continue to keep you updated as I make progress.
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Talk to you later,
– C. out.