Beginner - Phaser 3 or Godot

NibzAU · 2020-02-28T23:45:20

Hey all. so here i am, late 30s, and I have recently decided that i would like to career change to be a web developer. I already had a strong understanding of html and css but never learnt Javascript so i have been focusing on this. During the learning stage i got interested in game dev as a hobby. i started a couple games using pure javascript to learn and have been able to make a player run and jump and a pong/breakout game and then i found phaser unity and godot. i need a little help deciding on which i want as a beginner. I know unity is very popular but ive decided i dont want to use it, unsure why i just dont. i've narrowed it down to phaser and godot, i see that godot is a game engine with drag and drop elements and phaser is more a framework and full code (i believe they have a editor now) My entire reason for originally looking at these things was to make games whilest learning javascript I hear alot of people praise phaser but what i wonder, as a beginner, because there is no drag and drop elements, is it the best choice for me? i would go with godot in an instance if it used javascript but alas i dont want to be learning javascript and gdscript and balance work and life on top of that. I'm leaning towards phaser because then i get to code it all, i am running linux for the OS, Krita for graphics, i have tiled for tilesets and phaser and xampp setup is there any reason why i wouldnt want to use phaser? is it too hard? is it the better choice? should i be using godot instead. for my first original game ive got the art work ready and music and planned the levels etc but now i need an engine and to put it all togeather. Any help, tips, stories, anything would be greatly appreciated.

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Started by NibzAU February 16, 2020 10:37 PM

11 comments, last by 8Observer8 4 years, 9 months ago

NibzAU

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February 28, 2020 02:38 AM

@8Observer8

Thanks

I have no interest at all in 3d at the moment.

i want to make a 2d defence game, 2d platformer, 2d puzzle game, 2d dungeon crawler / rogue like game

thats more than enough to keep me busy and then maybe after that i'll try a 3d game ?

8Observer8

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February 28, 2020 11:45 PM

What a 3D game are you going to write? I want to make the 2D Tic-Tac-Toe game with network using Node.js and socket.io with free hosting on Heroku. Try to deploy your “hello, world” using this simple instruction: Getting Started on Heroku with Node.js | Heroku Dev Center

My dream is to make 3D clone of the Battle City game with network. I made a 3D model in Blender and loaded it to pure WebGL and TypeScript from the Collada (.dae) format. You can rotate and zoom it by mouse: https://8observer8.github.io/webgl10-ts/models/battle-city-3d/