Let's Build a Multiplayer Phaser Game (eBook)

Oscar Lodriguez has been developing software as a freelancer for close to 13 years. During this time, he has worked with software giants such as Adyen, BNP Paribas, Ebay, Bol.com, Schiphol, and Backbase. He has a bachelor's degree in computer science and is a motivated and avid learner who stays up to date with web industry standards. He has written three books and speaks regularly at Golang/JavaScript meet-ups in and around Holland.

Chapter 1:  Introduction Chapter Goal: How to approach this book 

Chapter 2: Setting Up Our Development Environment Chapter Goal: Getting started • Checking out Github and switching to the start branch • A simple hello world inside of our setup

Sub - Topics:      

1.   Where to start

1.   Setting up Node.js and Git

2.   The main ingredient

3.   Our Frontend architecture

4.   Our general architecture

Chapter 3: Orchastrating Our Domain Model Chapter Goal: Have a concise model to work with.

Sub - Topics:

1.  The building blocks

2.  Creating our first model

3.  The player model

4.  The Keyboard model

5. Putting it all together

6. Creating our directories

7. Directories construction tactics

Chapter 4: Implementing Our Game Domain Models Chapter Goal: Introduction to phaser and implementing our models

Sub - Topics:

1.       About Phaser

2.       Talking about Phaser…

3.       The Player model

4.       Phaser Arcade Physics

5.       The Game Model

6.       The Keyboard model

Chapter 5: Seeing It in Action! Chapter Goal: Alpha version of the game

Sub - Topics:

1.       Hooking it all up together

Chapter 6: Projectiles! Chapter Goal: Allow the gunships to fire!

Sub - Topics:

1.       Making it to the big screen

2.       Overlap

3.       Gimme the gun!

4.       More on Overlap

5.       Updating the keyboard with fire!

6.       The HUD

Chapter 7: Hooking Up Our Server Chapter Goal: The backend of things

Sub - Topics:

1.       On to the server side of things

2.       Models and events

3.       Setting up our static file server

4.       Socket connection

5.       Back to the client

6.       Marvellous explosions!

Chapter 8: The World Should Remember Your Name Chapter Goal: Authentication

Sub - Topics:

1.       Login

Chapter 9: Bonus! Chapter Goal: Cleaning up

Sub - Topics:

1.       Refactoring & Asteroids

2.       Adding more features

3.       Some more refactoring

4.       Asteroids!

Chapter 10: Further reading and discovery Chapter Goal: Where to go from here

Sub - Topics:

Other Phaser resources