The scene compiler

• Executing the compiler
• User code
  • Editing the generated code
• Compiler settings
• Scene settings

Traditionally, a game engine has its file format to create scenes and part of its API is focused on the integration with a scene editor.

Phaser is not a traditional game engine, it is a framework, and is not attached to any particular tool. To create a Phaser game you only need a simple text editor.

Of course, Phaser provides API to interact with some widely used, third-party formats like texture atlas, tilemap, bitmap fonts, etc… But there is not a complete scene format where all the elements could be integrated.

For the Scene Editor, we use a custom scene-file format, but instead of creating a custom library to parse and create the Phaser scenes on the fly, we created a compiler.

The scene compiler takes as input the custom scene files (based on JSON) and generates well-written Phaser code. In other words, the scene compiler writes the Phaser code for you.

This has some advantages:

• Your game doesn’t need to load an extra, third-party library.

• You have full comprehension of how the scene objects are created.

• A modern JavaScript editor can process the scene code and integrates it with the content assist tools.

• You can customize certain aspects of the generated code and/or insert your code.