shg42 / star_catcher

Quick, simple Phaser 3 project from a junior dev's attempts at learning the Phaser basics.

star_catcher

Local Install Instructions:

• Run npm install
• Run npm start

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A simple, fun exercise I did to get accustomed to Phaser and expand my capabilities with the framework. This was my first "solo" attempt at a Phaser 3 project (that is, not following along with a tutorial's source code), as well as my first experiment with using the Tiled map editor. The challenge I gave myself in this project: to have the stars spawn at random coordinates... but only where they wouldn't be overlapping the platforms. To resolve this, I turned to the Phaser community for help, at the Phaser Discourse group. With their guidance, I arrived at the solution of filtering empty tiles on the collision layer and spawning each star at the coordinates of a randomly selected tile from the array of empties.

Check it out on Heroku