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Interphase Book

The other week I purchased the interphase ebook , it is partially sold as a look at all the fun things you can do PhaserJS in not many lines of code and partially as a increase your skills in PhaserJS. I was considering writing a few games in Javascript and if I had then I would have used PhaserJS. The mini games they produce attempt to demonstrate various features of PhaserJS while also attempting to remain fun. A retro feel pervades the whole ebook. Overall I quite liked the feel and their production standards are quite high although if you were not a child of the eighties or at least partial to updated games from that era you may not enjoy it so much. For unrelated reasons I decided to return to libgdx before getting very far into the book. The writing was good enough and what they were producing interesting enough that I continued to read the book and learn a few tricks. In my mind that reflects well on the author and PhaserJS in general. The only negative side is while it tells yo

A Rambling February Post

Yep it would be fair to say I have taken a bit of an unintentional break from blogging. Well more of an unintentional break from coding at home which usually leads me to blog. Christmas was a big part of it with that time being  follow by the feeling of being incredibly burnt out. My final living grandparent also died which is not a fun thing. It feels like all of January and a fair bit of February have been a bit unproductive. Usually I find the start of a new year to be a fairly productive time in terms of home projects. My other half thinks I have had some kind of virus that has been slowing me down. Anyway enough negativity I try to not be one of 'those' people :) Well this is definitely a rambling post so I think I will indulge myself and just go with the flow and see where the writing takes me. I quit coffee a week or so ago after realising I was definitely drinking way too much. The headaches were awesome to say the least. I find I tend to sleep a lot when I am going thr