The geek's guide to code-parenting

What the heck is code-parenting?

• Started making a game with my son
   
• Realised it was a pretty cool activity we could do together
   
• Decided to do a talk about it

Why?

• I don't get to code at work much anymore
   
• Bennie was keen
   
• Life hack!

The brief...

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Phaser.io - JS game framework

What does Phaser offer?

• Features
  https://phaser.io/
   
• Great tutorials
  https://phaser.io/learn
   
• Lots of examples
  https://phaser.io/examples

Featured games

https://phaser.io/games

115

https://jotson.itch.io/115

Xevious

http://nsbrotherhood.com/games/html5/test/xevious/

Example games

What we made first

• Getting started game
   
• Played around with it a bit
   
• Robucks!

Next up...!

• Bennie wanted more...!
   
• Explore, money, monsters, quests, people
   
• Found RPG tutorial
  https://gamedevacademy.org/how-to-create-a-turn-based-rpg-game-in-phaser-3-part-1/
  
   
• Bennie RPG!

Building maps

• Tiled - open source
   
• Free tiles
   
• Demo...

Let's look at the code

berman.tim@gmail.com

Mario in Phaser - timelapse

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-U5YSB3dgaQ