That's awesome to hear! And yes my "one game per week" challenge was in 2014.

This game was definitely inspired by Flappy Bird, but no I didn't think about that name before today.

I'm having a hard time believing it but Flappy Bird was launched over 8 years ago in 2013!

Yes, I was definitely inspired by Flappy Bird for this game. I could have called it Flappy Pong I guess.

I came to the comment section just to say that I was surprised this wasn't called Flappy Pong.

Nice game!

Pongy McPongface

This is awesome to hear! I stopped making games for a few years to focus on other things, but now I'd like to get back to it.

That's a good point. I'll see what I can do about this, thanks!

It would be great if tapping anywhere on the page made the ball jump.

Awesome, thanks for the comment! Yes first the paddle shrink, and then later the ball starts to speed up.

Excellent. My favorite implementation of Pong is PLBM Pong from the DOS days: you can make the ball crawl at first and speed up gradually until it's all frantic jiggling of the paddles. Much fun've been had in the two-player mode.

https://archive.org/details/PLBMPongOut_1020

You could in fact do likewise: let the player choose the initial parameters and the speed of change. Maybe with preset difficulty tiers if high scores are kept.

Difficulty +1 ; Let the ball split into multiples at some stage

Hi! This is my brand new blog where I write tutorials on Javascript. Let me know if you have any questions or feedback :-)

Hi HN!

I'm the guy working on MilkyJS.

If people are interested in it, I'll try to fix the last few bugs and put it on GitHub. So I'm really interested in your feedback, especially: Would you use a framework like this? And do you see ways to improve the API?

Thanks :-)

Phaser is the perfect framework to get started making HTML5 2D games. I can't wait to look into this new release!

If you want to learn more about Phaser, you can check out my Flappy Bird tutorial here: http://blog.lessmilk.com/how-to-make-flappy-bird-in-html5-1/

I also wrote and self-published the first book about Phaser: https://www.discoverphaser.com/

Let me know if you have any questions! :-)

I just started with Phaser last month and it's great. Your tutorials page was a great reference for me(http://www.lessmilk.com/phaser-tutorial/). 2.4 looks great. Have you experimented with the support for boned Creature animations? I've ben testing out Creature for 2D skeletal animation and it seems quite nice.

I wrote an ebook on how to make HTML5 games with the Phaser framework. It's been pretty successful, making me over $12,000 on launch day.

My book: https://www.discoverphaser.com/ My sales number: http://blog.lessmilk.com/ebook-sales/

nice book idea! If I had any time on top of job, side project and family i'd buy it!

question. I see you use Gumroad. Reasons not to go with Clickbank? No need for affiliates?

I wrote an ebook on how to make games in HTML5 with the Phaser framework. It's been out for a month now, and it has made me over $16,000 in sales. I keep making a couple hundred dollars per day with it.

Link to the book: http://www.discoverphaser.com

More sales number: http://blog.lessmilk.com/ebook-sales/