Sorry if I’m not posting in exactly the right place but I’m new here and have a problem. I’ve tried every game engine there is almost and given up on all of them because, usually, the examples or documents don’t match the state of the actual engine so relevant help is near impossible to find. Godot, Gdevelop, etc. All the tutorials tell you to do something that you finally figure out days later is deprecated to the point that it breaks the damn thing and all your effort goes out the window. I have NO programming skill, just a passion for something I hold no talent for. Sorry, I just keep trying. I hope for a time when game design is truly within reach of a stereotypical right-brained artistic type. But in the meantime I kind of committed to learning Phaser, and I’m doing the most simple, very first tutorial, y’all may remember it: Make Your First Game. I do have Node installed and thanks to my DOS days I am able to get to the right directory and get the server up to see the result of my work. But on part 3 where the sky is supposed to appear, nothing does - it’s just blank. And nothing I do fixes it. I finally opened the example, which does work of course, in Notepad and spent hours comparing the two, but couldn’t find any difference. Then, I downloaded phaser.js and put a local copy in my assets folder and changed that to be the source - no improvement, so I switched it back. I finally opened up the example html in notepad and compared it to mine for like an HOUR - no difference. Then I gave up and resorted to copy/paste-ing the working example code onto mine. Yes, I saved it as html. But it was still broken!!! How can two html documents with identical contents have different results? Like I said, I am (and probably will always be) an amateur coder but even I know this isn’t supposed to happen. The only thing I can think of is that it has something to do with Node, which I haven’t even begun to attempt to unravel - for now I’m content to let it do it’s job. But could that be where my issue is? The damn things are exactly the same! Why could this be happening. Any help would be greatly appreciated, but there’s no reason to come down on me - like I said, I never claimed to be able to program. Surely this has happened to others.
Open your browser’s Developer Tools → Console and look for errors.
Just a shot in the dark, but perhaps you’ve got a mixed content error. Like maybe you’re trying to load files from https and the SSL on your server is not set up?
For just getting started, it might be worth taking a look at Phaser Launcher . The app will handle setting up and configuring the dev server, and allows you focus on just the code. It also has some built in tutorials for getting started.
Another option is, if you are using an editor like VS Code or Brackets, there are are extensions/built in options to start a dev server and this can help rule out issues.