@lewis9029 - Phaser is a joy to develop with because of how well put together it is. The main advantage to using it is that you'll reap the benefit of a veteran game developer's many years of experience rather than having to implement tweens, spritemaps, groups, physics, etc, on your own.

Though I haven't built a turn-based game with it myself yet, I know others have and it would basically save you time and allow you to focus on the logic that makes your game unique.

@deificx - Thanks for letting me know. I'll look into this.

@TheSisb2 - Thanks. Glad you'll find it useful.

Space bar should click on Start whenever that's the only option available. It's a small detail but it would be better not to have to reach for the mouse.

Good idea - Thanks

How did you make it into an app on Android ?

I used Ludei - I was planning on creating a separate tutorial on this a little later. Basically once you get your Phaser game finished, their service will wrap your game into a valid .apk or iOS app for you.

Good post. I've been pondering making posts like this for a book -- HN would you pay for code breakdowns of completed games with source code provided? (Personally I bought the gameprogrammingpatterns.com book but I might be an exception in this crowd)

Thanks - I was thinking of doing something similar. I think there is value in doing the legwork of organizing all this material into a coherent, step by step type of guide / book. The information obviously exists elsewhere in scattered pieces - but I believe devs would pay to have it curated sanely for them.

Thanks for sharing!

I'm curious though: what would a game engine like Phaser offer over general-purpose web app frameworks for building turn-based games (other than maybe performance)?

I've been toying with the idea of a turn-based co-op rogue-like using web technologies. I was considering just using some React-based framework and lots of fancy custom CSS to build it, since it leverages my existing knowledge and experience much better.

Phaser really is fantastic. I'm not much of a programmer but I'm able to churn out some pretty decent projects with it. It's really nice.

It is. It's apparent how much effort went into it when you build a project with it and realize how much of the nitty gritty has been abstracted away for you.

Apart from the source-code being open-sourced, the game really is fun as well.

I haven't gotten far enough, but I hope it becomes more challenging with alien rockets that try to attack you or something.

kudos to author for a cool game.

Thanks phantom_oracle! If you stick it through into level 2 you will indeed get alien rockets lobbed at you :)

I did get to level 2 :)

Have you considered making the alien-bot more dynamic or perhaps adding more bots?

Also, what about adding the ability to destroy bots too?

This is a really great write-up! Thank you very much for sharing. I've always wanted to make a game with Phaser, this will definitely come in handy!

Thanks for doing this. I am planning on getting into Phaser really soon and I will definitely be reading this source code.

Sure thing. Glad it will be of some help. While there are lots of good Phaser code samples available, my goal was to provide a completed project to make it clear how everything fits together.

This page is really hard to read on mobile (android chrome). There's basically one word per line.

Thanks for pointing this out. Should be fixed now.