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What a week to be building games with Phaser 🦖

Brand new AI tools in Phaser Desktop. A dev who won $15,000 on his very first game. A solo dev who took the Phaser Challenge at Gamedev.js Jam in just 13 days. Phaser 4 putting a million sprites on screen without breaking a sweat. And a quick guide to never losing your project again with Git.

Oh, and we put together a compilation of AI-assisted community games that genuinely caught us off guard. Turns out you've been busy 🎮

Scroll down. It's all in there 👇

🎞️ AI-assisted Phaser games: what the community is building

A few issues back we asked you to send us your AI vibe-coded Phaser games, and you delivered. We went through everything and hand-picked 10 AI-assisted projects. Some of these genuinely surprised us 🤖

Developers are using AI as a co-pilot to move faster, try more things, and ship games they might have shelved otherwise. It's also opened the door for a lot of beginners who are now building things for the first time. The craft is still there. You can feel it 🎮👌

🤖 Phaser now has AI tools: watch them in action!

Want to build your own vibe-coded game? Phaser Desktop is your entire game studio in a browser tab. Generate game art with AI, clean it up, draw sprites, design levels, compose music with AI, write and run your code. All in one place, all in the same workspace 😎

✨ Bring in AI when it helps · Hand-craft when it matters ⌨️

Check out the short below: we took a text prompt, generated an image with AI, and turned it into a clean pixel art game-ready asset in just a few steps. All inside Phaser Desktop 🤖

And if you'd rather do it by hand, Pixel Art Studio is right there too. A full manual pixel-art studio, built into Phaser Desktop. Every pixel placed by you, on purpose 🖌️

🔥 Fresh From the Web This Week

» Git for Phaser Developers: Never Lose Your Game Project Again

Ever pasted in a code change and suddenly your game just breaks? No idea what went wrong, no way back. Git version control fixes that. Create checkpoints as you build, restore a working version in seconds. No GitHub required, no complicated setup 🛟

Scott Westover walks you through the full process using a real Phaser project: setup, commits, and recovering a broken game on camera. Short, practical, and perfect if you've never touched version control before 😬

» Soul Thieves: First Game Ever, $15,000 at a Reddit Hackathon (interview with the dev)

Levasho had never made a game in his life. No experience, no plan. He found a Reddit hackathon with $40,000 in prizes, had 27 days left, and picked up Phaser from zero. Submitted 3 minutes before the deadline, and walked away with the $15,000 grand prize 💰 

The game is Soul Thieves, a pixel art platformer where you race other Reddit users up a trap-filled tower in real time. Built and shipped through Reddit's Devvit platform, it peaked at over 5,000 players in a single day with zero marketing. This is his story 🎮

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» It Was the Robots: Phaser Challenge Winner at Gamedev.js Jam 2026

Richard had 13 days, Phaser, and an idea about a robot waking up in a ruined world with no memory. No external assets, no team. It won the Gamedev.js Jam 2026 Phaser Challenge and players were comparing it to Detroit: Become Human 🏆

You crawl through tight spaces, scavenge modules to rebuild your own body, unlock the ability to fire, and piece together what happened to the world through dialogue and environmental clues. A post-apocalyptic platformer built solo in under two weeks 🤖

» SpriteGPULayer: How to Render Thousands of Sprites in Phaser 4 Without Killing Performance

Phaser 4 introduces SpriteGPULayer: one draw call, static GPU buffer, up to a million sprites on screen at the same performance cost as a few hundred. A whole new level of what's possible in a browser game 👩‍🚀

Position, rotation, tinting, parallax, frame animation. All GPU-driven, no per-frame CPU work. And the same principle applies to tilemaps with TilemapGPULayer: fixed rendering cost per pixel regardless of how many tiles are visible. Zoom out to 16 million tiles, same speed 🔥

» Project X: Light Years: Update 1.6 Adds Reloaded Mode, New Menus and More

Project X: Light Years just got its biggest update. Reloaded Mode adds a full roguelite progression layer to the classic shoot'em up gameplay. Earn orbs, buy upgrades, unlock better ships, push further each run 🚀

Update 1.6 also brings a redesigned menu, a new high score table, and customizable enemy bullet colors. Built with Phaser, on Steam now with a Very Positive rating 🎮

📩 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! 🦉