In the first month of this year I decided to learn about Game Development with JavaScript as the language. The goal was simple learn how video games actually work and rediscover my love of programming and building things and learn JavaScript OOP.

I decided to use a language that I’m already “comfortable” with which is JavaScript. I quoted “comfortable” because during this journey of rediscovery I’ve learned that I’m not really that comfortable with JavaScript, I’ve learn so many new things that I didn’t usually use like class based programming.

With that in mind, I went and research about different game development frameworks that runs on JavaScript. I decided to use Phaser because I wanted to do the coding and learn the ins and outs of video games concepts and design. Instead of learning a new tool like Godot or Unity as there’s a lot GUI to know though Phaser have their own editor, I wanted to do much on coding than relying on tools GUI.

The very first thing I did was to learn using the 

, which is really informative and beginner friendly. And then after that I supplied it with AI and asked it to create a study plan for me that I can finish with 4 weeks ( but was able to finish in 8 )

This is the study plan AI created for me which is pretty good, easy, digestible and almost complete, just need some follow up questions, additional information and personal research as I go, which is why I didn’t finish it on time.

 repository on how he creates Phaser games. I recommend his channel as he explain it in so much detailed and I also to check his repositories as his file organization where pretty solid.

This is the start of a new learning series for me which I will call “Building Games with Phaser”. I’ll posting more about how I built a game and showing off the Demo if I finish a game. I’ll try to be more detailed on what’s the game is about and what I’ve learned during the process.

My journey to learning game development with JavaScript and Phaser.

Game Development with Phaser

Creating sticky navigation or a sidebar? Here's a quick html and css only approach.

This is good when you want a sticky  table of content on your post

Sticky Navigation / Sidebar

Making sure my layout is full height when using Flexbox. Header always on top, footer always on the bottom is key 🔑

Make sure that the parent container of the header, main, and footer is where I’m applying the styles for the above example the 

. ( example: React you have to apply it into. App as this is the parent container )

Making sure my layout is full height when using flexbox. Header always on top, footer always on the bottom is key 🔑

Tags

Game Development with Phaser

Sticky Navigation / Sidebar

Flexbox: Full Height Layout