Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter Goal: How to approach this book
Chapter 2: Setting Up Our Development Environment Chapter Goal: Getting started - Checking out Github and switching to the start branch - A simple hello world inside of our setup
Sub - Topics:
1. Where to start
1. Setting up Node.js and Git
2. The main ingredient
3. Our Frontend architecture 4. Our general architecture
Chapter 3: Orchastrating Our Domain Model Chapter Goal: Have a concise model to work with.
Sub - Topics:
1. The building blocks
2. Creating our first model 3. The player model
4. The Keyboard model
5. Putting it all together 6. Creating our directories
7. Directories construction tactics
Chapter 4: Implementing Our Game Domain Models Chapter Goal: Introduction to phaser and implementing our models
Sub - Topics:
1. About Phaser
2. Talking about Phaser...
3. The Player model
4. Phaser Arcade Physics
5. The Game Model
6. The Keyboard model Chapter 5: Seeing It in Action! Chapter Goal: Alpha version of the game
Sub - Topics:
1. Hooking it all up together
Chapter 6: Projectiles! Chapter Goal: Allow the gunships to fire!
Sub - Topics:
1. Making it to the big screen
2. Overlap
3. Gimme the gun! 4. More on Overlap
5. Updating the keyboard with fire!
6. The HUD
Chapter 7: Hooking Up Our Server Chapter Goal: The backend of things
Sub - Topics:
1. On to the server side of things
2. Models and events
3. Setting up our static file server 4. Socket connection
5. Back to the client
6. Marvellous explosions!
Chapter 8: The World Should Remember Your Name Chapter Goal: Authentication
Sub - Topics:
1. Login
Chapter 9: Bonus! Chapter Goal: Cleaning up Sub - Topics:
1. Refactoring & Asteroids
2. Adding more features
3. Some more refactoring 4. Asteroids!
Chapter 10: Further reading and discovery Chapter Goal: Where to go from here
Sub - Topics:
- Other Phaser resources
About the Author: Oscar Lodriguez has been developing software as a freelancer for close to 13 years. During this time, he has worked with software giants such as Adyen, BNP Paribas, Ebay, Bol.com, Schiphol, and Backbase. He has a bachelor's degree in computer science and is a motivated and avid learner who stays up to date with web industry standards. He has written three books and speaks regularly at Golang/JavaScript meet-ups in and around Holland.
