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Game Development with Phaser

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What Will Be Built in This Stage

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Understand more about a game called breakout, a classic arcade game that we will be building in this stage of the course.

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    In the last video, we went through some tools and 0:00
    extensions that will be used in this course. 0:03
    In this video, we're going to talk about for 0:06
    game that we're going to build in this section. 0:08
    There are many simple games you can build to learn game development, like pong, 0:12
    space invaders, and snick, one of these games is called breakout. 0:18
    That's what we're going to build in this section. 0:23
    The mechanics of breakout are really simple, the user or 0:26
    player controls paddle at the bottom of the screen. 0:31
    This paddle can only move left or right. 0:35
    The paddle moves to prevent the ball in the game from getting to the bottom of 0:39
    the screen. 0:43
    The ball can bounce off the top left and right screen boundary, but 0:45
    it goes through the bottom. 0:49
    As you can see, there are some bricks at the top of the screen. 0:52
    When the ball collides with one of these bricks, 0:57
    the brick disappears and the ball bounces off. 0:59
    The aim of the game is to make all the bricks on the screen disappear. 1:03
    Simple enough, right? 1:08
    After building this game, we'll learn the basics of Phaser's physics system, 1:10
    rendering system, and also about adding text and sound to a game, cool. 1:16
    In the next video, 1:22
    we're going to go through the process of setting up a Phaser project. 1:23

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