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Holy moly, what a week 📻🔥

Last week we teased something special was coming. Well... here it is. 👀 The Phaser Desktop just landed: your entire game studio in a browser tab, and it's free.

That alone would be enough, but we also have Reddit games with real cash prizes, Phaser 4 lighting that'll make your jaw drop, open source multiplayer, a hardcore farming sim, and a jam winner built in 13 days out of 495 entries.

Buckle up. This one's a big deal. 👇

⭐ Meet Phaser Desktop: Your Entire Game Studio, Now in a Browser Tab

You know that feeling when you have a game idea but spend the first hour just setting things up? Yeah, we've been there too… for 14 years. So we did something about it. 😄👇

Meet the Phaser Desktop, your entire game studio living in a browser tab.
30+ tools, 2,061 code examples, full API docs, a pixel art canvas with 12 drawing tools, tilemap builder, texture atlas creator, seamless texture generator, AI image generator, music composer, SFX generator, arcade physics editor, background removal, sprite extractor…
all connected, all sharing the same workspace, all ready the moment you open it. 🎨

And here's the part that makes it extra special: while you build, Radio Phaser streams chiptunes and SID classics in the background. There's a live global chat with fellow devs online right now. And yes, we snuck in a minesweeper game for when you need a breather.
No installs. No setup. No excuses. Just open it, pick a template, and start making something awesome. We can't wait to see what you build!🚀

🎞️ Build Phaser Games for Reddit and Actually Get Paid for It

Did you know you can build games for Reddit with Phaser and actually get paid for it? 💰Thanks to Devvit, Reddit's developer platform, you can ship your game directly to 500 million monthly Reddit users, and there are hackathons with serious cash prizes. One Phaser dev won $15,000 on his very first game.. We'll tell you all about that story soon! 🔜

Check out this compilation of Phaser games already live on Reddit for some inspiration. Your game could be next 😃

🔥 Fresh From the Web This Week

» Agrocracy: A Phaser Hardcore Farming Game + Dev Interview

Most farming games give you a watering can and a sunny afternoon. Agrocracy gives you a balance sheet, a weather forecast, and a 30km² isometric map 🌾

Built by a solo dev using Phaser, Angular and Java, this hardcore turn-based farming sim is inspired by classic tycoons like Railroad Tycoon and SimCity. Find out how Filip Wróbel architected the whole thing, handled realistic weather without physics simulation, and why he plans to build all his future games with Phaser 🎮

» Phaser 4 Lighting: Dynamic Lights, Self-Shadows and Normal Maps

Flickering torches. Dungeon shadows. Sprites that look genuinely three-dimensional under a moving light source. Phaser 4 completely rethinks how 2D lighting works, and it's simpler than ever 💡

One method call. Any game object. Dynamic lights, self-shadows and normal maps, all working together with the new Filter system, no pipeline juggling required ✨

» Build Games for Reddit with Phaser: Devvit Starter Template

Ready to build your own Reddit game? The Devvit Phaser Starter Template gives you a complete, production-ready stack: Phaser, Devvit, Vite, Hono, and TypeScript all wired up. One command and you're ready to build 🛠️

Your game runs natively inside Reddit on any device, integrates with Reddit's commenting system, voting mechanics and user profiles — and Reddit handles the hosting for free. No setup headaches, just build and ship 🚀

» Rivalis: Open Source Multiplayer Framework for Phaser and Node.js

Every Phaser dev hits the same wall eventually: the game client is sorted, but what about multiplayer? WebSockets, auth, reconnect logic, rate limiting… it's all plumbing. Nobody wants to write plumbing 🔧

Rivalis is a free, open-source Node.js framework that handles all of it. Rooms, actors and typed messages — that's all you need to learn. It ships with heartbeats, rate limiting, auto-reconnect and a two-player Pac-Man demo out of the box. And it's AI-ready: load the skill file into Claude Code or Cursor and it knows the whole API 🤖

» Bauhaus Builder: The Phaser Game That Won Gamedev.js Jam 2026

Out of 495 entries at Gamedev.js Jam 2026, Bauhaus Builder took first place overall. Built in just 13 days by a two-person team using Phaser and Box2D, it ranked top 3 in Theme, Innovation and Gameplay, and placed #3 in the dedicated Phaser Challenge too 🏆

It's a physics-based puzzle game where you build machines and drive them through levels, wrapped in a stunning Bauhaus and expressionist visual style. All art handcrafted, no AI. Fully playable on mobile too 🎨

Analytics on Live Data Without Leaving Postgres

When analytics on Postgres slows down, most teams add a second database. TimescaleDB by Tiger Data takes a different approach: extend Postgres with columnar storage and time-series primitives to run analytics on live data, no split architecture, no pipeline lag, no new query language to learn. Start building for free. No credit card required.

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📩 20,000 Devs Want to See What You've Built

Games, tutorials, tools, videos. If you made it with Phaser, we want to feature it. Completely free, always. Drop us a line and let's get it in front of them 👇

Happy coding, and see you next week! 🌮🐹