Making a Phaser 3 Tutorial Series?

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Hi,

I have some time to spear and thought about making video tutorials on how to make my phaser platformer game

I have already recorded 30min of coding and would like to know what you think.

Although I read and write a lot in English, I rarely speak. So I ask you native speaker, how does it sound? Should I practices a bit more before making a series or is it just fine? And what about the content? Do you like my style or is it a no go to code more or less unprepared?

Here is the playlist of the first video examples.

Hope you like it and can give me some feedbacks :slight_smile:

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I watched the videos 10times and noticed that my voice sounds a bit boring and sleepy. Guess I have to work on this.

Also I should use a second screen which includes the code I want to write. Guess this will help making less boring.

Any thoughts?

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I only sped through them, but as a native English speaker I think you
sound absolutely fine!

As someone who has just started working with Phaser3 only a month or so
ago, my advice would be to start from your starter project insteadā€¦

Most of the concepts you cover in the current 3 videos are the boilerplate
people will pickup as they get more familiar with Phaser, but I donā€™t
believe anyone (especially a newbie) should be coding that from scratch.

What I would have loved to see a month ago. is a review of the top starter
kits with pros and cons on why you would choose them. Then take the ā€˜bestā€™
and show them how to get the environment setup. (node, vscode, vscode plugins)

Then start by showing how you would implement the elements of a typical
game following on from the proper structure set by the starter kit.

I went with phaser-plus as my starter/generator. But now that I am a
little more experienced I definitely would have preferred a typescript
based one for the better intellisense!

Related to this, a guide to finding what you are looking for in the
Phaser docs & source would be helpful for a newcomer too - Iā€™ve
had to dive into the phaser source code on many occasionsā€¦ this forum
is ok for the basics. but I havenā€™t ever had any of my questions answered.

Thinking back, my most painful experience learning phaser was getting
a grip on the coordinate and viewport system! Now itā€™s just second
nature, but to begin with it was hard to break out of the top/left/width/height
style systems I have used in the past.

Prior to starting this project Iā€™d never used ES6, babel, webpack, gulp,
etcā€¦ IMHO all of these things (or equivalents) are absolutely essential for
developing anything more advanced than a simple demo - and when included in
the starter kit you donā€™t need to understand how they work right away. So
starting with a quick overview of what the kit provides and why, then jump
straight into how to structure the typical game elements with the kit - is what a
newcomer would really benefit from.

Then as you answer all of the resulting ā€œhow do I do thisā€ questions,
it would really fill in the documentation for your starter kit. A large
part of the reason I chose phaser-plus was because of the excellent
instructions and a youtube video walking through the demo.

But Iā€™ll definitely be trying your typescript starter kit on my next project
so thank you for that! :slight_smile:

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Thanks :slight_smile:

The plan was actually to start the first 3 videos with creating a very simple setup (maybe with a even simpler index.html file) to understand better how Phaser works. Then I will start using a simplified version of my TypeScript template.

Since, I do only use linux for years, I did not know how to use node on windows and mac. When creating the production ready movies, I will explain how to set up the environment on all 3 operating systems. For example, on windows git-bash should be installed and the terminal of vscode should automatically use bash instead of powershell.

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Youā€™re welcome :smiley:

Thanks for all your feedback. I am very certain now that I can and will make a great tutorial :grin:

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On a second thought, maybe it would be better to start with the simplified version (where the npm packages are locked to a specific version) of the template directly :thinking:

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You read this in a book that you wrote yourself? Correct me if Iā€™m wrong, but your post look to me like a total SPAM!

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