Games created with Phaser require a modern web browser that supports the canvas tag. This includes Internet Explorer 9+, Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Opera. It also works on mobile web browsers including stock Android 2.x browser and above and iOS5 Mobile Safari and above.
For developing with Phaser you can use either a plain-vanilla JavaScript approach or [TypeScript](https://typescript.codeplex.com/). We made no assumptions about how you like to code your games, and were careful not to impose any form of class/inheritance/structure upon you.
Phaser was born from a cross-polination of the AS3 Flixel game library and our own internal HTML5 game framework. The objective was to allow you to make games _really_ quickly and remove some of the speed barriers HTML5 puts in your way.
Phaser fully or partially supports the following features. This list is growing constantly and we are aware there are still a number of essential features missing:
We've a number of features that we know Phaser is lacking, here is our current priority list:
* Tilemap collision and layers
* Better sound controls
* Touch and MSPointer support
* Game scaling on mobile
* Text Rendering
* Buttons
Beyond this there are lots of other things we plan to add such as WebGL support, Spline animation format support, sloped collision tiles, path finding and support for custom plugins. But the list above are more priority items and is by no means exhaustive either! However we do feel that the core structure of Phaser is now pretty locked down, so safe to use for small scale production games.
Test Suite
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Phase comes with an ever growing Test Suite. Personally we learn better by looking at small refined code examples, so we create lots of them to test each new feature we add. Inside the Tests folder you'll find the current set. If you write a particuarly good test then please send it to us.
The tests need running through a local web server (to avoid file access permission errors from your browser).
Make sure you can browse to the Tests folder via your web server. If you've got php installed then launch:
Tests/index.php
Right now the Test Suite requires PHP, but we will remove this requirement soon.
Contributing
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Phaser is in early stages and although we've still got a lot to add to it, we wanted to just get it out there and share it with the world.
If you find a bug (highly likely!) then please report it on github.
If you have a feature request, or have written a small game or demo that shows Phaser in use, then please get in touch. We'd love to hear from you.
