Phaser Language

Motivation

I needed a way to program JavaScript games a lot quicker using PhaserJS 3, which meant I needed to find a way of iterating quickly. I figured that reducing the amount of typing I had to do would be a good place to start. Hence, this project.

Pretty much, what Phaser Language (.pl) allows you to do is type a directive and pass it parameters where possible. This reduces the amount of typing one has to do. For example, instead of this, you can use ::. So, this.player becomes ::player.

Some directives

:: is this;

:::sprite is this.add.sprite (the sprite action/directive needs 3 params to work, so would rightly so add parentheses after it and pass it arguments)

You can find more mappings in the map.config.json file.

Folder structure

So all you need to know is that the scenes folder holds the top level .pl files for now. To include scripts from other files you can use the #import directive (e.g. #import "Player";). External scripts are kept in the scripts folder.

Testing

You can test this by running node index.js in your console at the root of the project. This will compile into the JavaScript needed to run in the browser.

I don't want to use the scenes folder for some reason

Then change the entry point of your app in the map.config.json file.

I want to add my own mappings

Then add a directive/action as a key and it's corresponding JavaScript equivalent as the value.