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June is turning out to be quite a month 🎉

That event we teased in the previous issue? It's here: a $40,000 hackathon with Reddit with prizes across multiple categories. And the Phaser Game Agent is nearly ready too, more on that very soon 👀

Also this week: Phaser 4.2.0 "Giedi" is out, Geometry Dash has an official Phaser-powered web demo, two super intersting dev interviews, and Chong-U is back with a full Street Fighter clone built entirely with AI.

No loading screens here. Let's go! 👇

⭐ Phaser 4.2.0 "Giedi" is out: stencils, textured meshes, and cone lights are here

Phaser 4.2.0 "Giedi" ships with Mesh2D for textured triangle rendering, a direct Stencil buffer system for hard-edged masks, and new AlphaStrategy options for smarter transparency 🪨

Community contributor FSDevelop added cone lights (flashlights, headlights, vision cones) built right into the existing lighting shader. Also new: a MULTIPLY_TWO tint mode and runtime FPS limiting 🔦

🏆 Phaser x Reddit hackathon: $40,000 in prizes, millions of potential players

Those hints about building for Reddit in the last few issues? This is why 😁

Build a game, social experiment, or community experience for Reddit using Phaser and Devvit, Reddit's developer platform. The goal is a hook: something that keeps redditors coming back. The prize pool totals $40,000 across multiple categories, including a dedicated $5,000 Best Use of Phaser award. Submissions close July 15 🎮

This is a real chance to ship something to millions of users and get paid for it. Top games after the contest can even qualify for Reddit Developer Funds and the Reddit Featuring Program. What are you waiting for? 🏆

🔥 Fresh From the Web This Week

» Geometry Dash has an official web demo, and it runs on Phaser

Geometry Dash needs no introduction: a rhythm platformer with over 10 million downloads on Google Play, 279,000 Very Positive reviews on Steam, and a community that has been creating levels for more than a decade. You tap to jump, obstacles sync to the beat, and one missed spike sends you back to the start 🟩

RobTop Games built the official web demo with Phaser. Jump in for free and see how far you get 🎶

» Interview: Colony of the Forsaken, a solo dev is building an ambitious survival colony sim

Colony of the Forsaken is a survival colony sim where you build during the day, recruit survivors with unique spells, and defend against waves at night. Permadeath, procedural maps, and a spell system straight out of Warcraft III 🌲

A free demo is already live on itch .io. Try it, leave a comment, and wishlist it on Steam ahead of the Q1 2027 release 🤩

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» Interview: Path of Baa Flocklands, a cooperative sheep survival game running inside Reddit

Path of Baa: Flocklands is a cooperative survival game where players explore a shared world, restore biomes, and grow their flock together. It runs directly in the Reddit feed, built with Phaser and Devvit. Patrick from Hammertime Studio has been building with Phaser since 2015, and this is his most ambitious Reddit game yet 🐑

The game is in open beta now, with a full release planned for late June or early July. Jump in, explore the Flocklands, and leave your feedback in r/PathOfBaa. The community has already shaped the game more than you'd expect 🌿

» Chong-U's new tutorial: vibe code a full Street Fighter clone with Phaser

Chong-U is back with a new tutorial, and if you played with last week's beat ‘em up, you know what to expect 😉 This time it's a full Street Fighter clone built with Phaser and AI tools: Cursor, Codex, and Claude Opus 4.8 for the code, GPT Images 2.0 for every asset. Not a single line written by hand 🥊

Characters, backgrounds, animations, UI — all through natural language prompts. The finished game includes light and heavy attacks, blocking, special moves, a round system, and a one-vs-AI mode 💥

📩 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! 🐑