Phaser Plugin: VirtualGamepad

The Virtual Gamepad is an overlay for Phaser games intended for mobile devices. The joystick and button will work with a mouse, but it's pretty pointless if you want to use the joystick and button at the same time.

How to Install

• Copy js/phaser-plugin-virtual-gamepad.js to your page's JavaScript directory
• Copy assets/gamepad/gamepad_spritesheet.png to your page's assets directory

How to Use

• In your game, load gamepad_spritesheet.png as part of your preload
• Add the plugin with var gamepad = game.plugins.add(Phaser.Plugin.VirtualGamepad)
• Add a joystick with var joystick = gamepad.addJoystick(x, y, scale, '<SPRITESHEET>')
• Add a button with var button = this.gamepad.addButton(x, y, scale, '<SPRITESHEET>')
• Joystick properties can be read with joystick.properties.<PROPERTY>. Properties include:
• inUse
• up
• down
• left
• right
• x
• y
• distance
• angle
• rotation
• Button state can be read with button.isDown

See code in js/start.js as an example on how to use the VirtualGamepad.

Demo

A playable demo of this repository can be found at http://shawnhymel.github.io/phaser-plugin-virtual-gamepad/.

Version History

• v0.1.1 - Fixed direction bug (.right stuck) on joystick. Added credits to Eugenio Fage in comments.
• v0.1.0 - Initial release

Known Bugs

• Right now, only one joystick and one button are supported

Credits

Joystick math is based on work by Eugenio Fage, whose original touch control plugin can be found here.

License Information

The MIT License (MIT) Copyright (c) 2016 Shawn Hymel

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