The jam was "genre shift", where participants were supposed to take an existing game and shift it to another genre. I chose the Atari 2600 classic Air Sea Battle and turned it into a simple golfing game.
I liked the idea of using the 2600 as a starting point so I could worry less about the graphics and more about the physics and gameplay.
It's simple but it works. It's almost much more fun on a phone - the touch screen is more fun than a mouse for this one. :)
Watch the demo at the beginning of the game — you don’t want to click on the ball as your pivot point for the swing — use the upper right part of the window. That’s part of the reason I made the demo — to show the best place to start your swings. :)
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I went from knowing nothing about Phaser to a working game in about two weeks for a game jam earlier this year. Really enjoyed working with it.
http://www.lmnopc.com/air-sea-golf/
The jam was "genre shift", where participants were supposed to take an existing game and shift it to another genre. I chose the Atari 2600 classic Air Sea Battle and turned it into a simple golfing game.
I liked the idea of using the 2600 as a starting point so I could worry less about the graphics and more about the physics and gameplay.
It's simple but it works. It's almost much more fun on a phone - the touch screen is more fun than a mouse for this one. :)
That is really fun! It plays very smoothly on my iPhone.
Glad you dig it! :)
It seems like it's just limited on desktop? After dragging a certain amount on a desktop, I can't pull the swing back any further.
Watch the demo at the beginning of the game — you don’t want to click on the ball as your pivot point for the swing — use the upper right part of the window. That’s part of the reason I made the demo — to show the best place to start your swings. :)
You have to start dragging the mouse from higher up the window as far as I can tell.