Phaser Physics Arcade Groups are one of the most powerful features of Phaser3, let’s take a look at how they work, by creating a small spaceship shooter example.TLDR; Get the repository on GithubWhat we’ll coverHow to set up a Phaser 3 Arcade Physics GroupCreate an Arcade physics group for pooling objectsUse the mouse to make the space ship […]

In this post we’ll focus on improving performance in your games, by making use of spritesheets.
When using separate assets in your game, the amount of draw calls your GPU needs to make is huge. This has a big performance impact and can lead to framedrops, which we want to avoid at all times.

Sometimes using a built-in hittest functionality isn’t sufficient for checking if 2 objects collide. In these cases the distance formula will come in handy.

Inheritance in Javascript can be a bit confusing if you come from a class-based language (C++ for example).

Groups are one of the most powerful features of PhaserJS, let’s take a look at how they work, by creating a small spaceship shooter example.