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Making Connect 4+ Browser Games

Creating "Match 3+" Mechanics for Phaser.js Gaming Frameworks v3.x.x & v2.x.x

Stephen Gose

This is a single chapter from the Phaser Game Starter Kit Collection. This chapter leads you through Connect-4+ game development. This tutorial has both v3.16+ & v2.x.x encoding. It's perfect for novices, experienced web developers, and just anyone wanting their own bespoke game, artwork, and features.

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Discover how to create online Connect 4+ games using the methods in this single chapter from the Phaser Game Starter Kit Collection. When you finish this tutorial, you will have a production pipeline to create as many different "connect 4-in-a-row" games as your imagination can dream of!

You'll also get bonus content, download examples, and source code references on how to do every single thing in this game design workbook, so you can copy and paste any examples into your own productions and then modify those resources for your own purposes. General Game Licenses are included in the purchased book.

I would like to guide you in creating several styles of Connect 4+ and "four-in-a-row+" game mechanics. We will use the game mechanics, mechanisms and the development methods discussed in Phaser Game Prototypes. By the end of this workbook, you should have a fully functional Connrvt 4+ game (with "artificial intelligence") - not just a copy of my game, but your very own product using your own gaming assets. There is a supporting website where you can download the bonus content included with your workbook's purchase.  

This extraordinarily comprehensive guide will teach you how to: 

- Use the Phaser JS Gaming Framework! either v2.x.x or v3.16+.

- How to integrate "Connect-4" game mechanics into other game genres such as RPG adventure, and story plots!

- Use your game as a "Progressive Web Application" or "Single Page Web Application" for any device.

- Analyze current business demand for this game's genre, how and where to deploy it.

- Automatically generate various game board features.

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Stephen Gose

Avatar is an adorable cartoon sketch of my wife. My 48th anniversary is this coming Sept 1, 2026!

Stephen Gose, Ph.D. Information Systems (honorary) (and second-generation German) is a retired Professor Emeritus with a 41-year career as a certified network engineer, and "Certified Cisco Academy Instructor" (CCAI) since 2002. He is listed in the Who's Who for Information Technology for his directly related work for the Internet backbones in the Caribbean, Netherlands, Israel, and Russia. He was awarded "Letters of Appreciation" from AT&T, and the German, Israeli, Dutch, and Russian Governments. Steve has nearly three decades of international "teaching and conference lecturing" in both Local-Area and Wide-Area Networks, network security, Internet backbones, software engineering, and program/project management. He is a retired US Army Signal Corps Officer. He earned, in 2014, the ITT Technical Institute's "Instructor of the Year" out of 8,000 instructors across 144 campuses throughout the USA. 

He graduated from Grand Canyon University with his first B.A. in Religions and Music Education, then a B.S. in Business Admin. from the University of Maryland, and an M.B.A. in International Management from Liberty University.

He is currently pursuing his Th.D. He has been a licensed minister since 1972 and a missionary to Okinawa, Japan. He earned the US Army Chaplain Outstanding Service Award in 1983. 

In his spare time(?), Steve enjoys creating online casual games, software engineering, and managing his online gaming businesses. 

My driving theme: "Always stay humble and kind"

His website is: https://www.Stephen-Gose.com/

His game showcase is: http://www.renown-games.com

His theology website: http://kingdomofgodprinciples.com/

Game Support Site: http://makingbrowsergames.com/

Review my profile on LinkedIn.com: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephen-gose/

Contents

Table of Contents

Distribution Permission

  1. Supporting website

Disclosures

Disclaimer

About this Workbook

  1. Links and References
  2. Workbook Content
  3. How to Read & Use this workbook:
  4. Viewing this eBook:
  5. Who should use this workbook?

Your newly obtained skills …

Game Design Resources

  1. Game Studio - Book Series
  2. Game Studio - Online Courses
  3. “Making Browser Games” - Books Series
  4. “Making Browser Games” Series - online Courses
  5. Programming Courses
  6. “Walk-Thru Tutorial” Series - Online Courses
  7. IMaking HTML5 Games

1Introduction to Game Design

  1. Approaching Game Development
  2. Focusing Your Game
  3. 1.1Game Genre Defined
  4. GG Interactive — Game Design Course
  5. 1.2Game Tools & Generators
  6. 1.3References From

2Standard Project Setup

  1. 2.1Standardized File Structure
  2. 2.2Barebones Set-up
  3. 2.3Web Server Required - Batteries not included!

3Starting a Game Project

  1. 3.1Step 0: Review your competition and their games
  2. Game Examples
  3. 3.2Step 1: Create your “front-door”
  4. 3.3Step 2. Create your “Game Shell” & Phases
  5. Critical Rendering Path
  6. Network Impact
  7. Gamer’s Local Activity
  8. D.R.Y. Speed Limit - 5 GPH (Games Per Hour)!
  9. 3.4Select a JS Format
  10. ES5 Format
  11. ES6+ Format as “FAT Arrow” Function
  12. ES6+ Format as “Phaser.Class”
  13. ES6+ Format as “Phaser.Scene”
  14. IIPart II: Making “Connect 4+” Browser Games

4Connect 4 — Core Game Construction

  1. 4.1Game Project Overview
  2. 4.2Our Goal
  3. 4.3Connect 4 Genre Description
  4. 4.4Historical background
  5. 4.5Game Mechanics (GM) - Logic & Rules
  6. Game Genre Commercial Components
  7. Rule Variations
  8. 4.6Game Mechanics (GM) - Data Structure
  9. 4.7Game Recipe™ Featured Ingredients
  10. Game Genre Components
  11. 4.8Design Considerations:
  12. Gameboard Development
  13. Game Disc-Tokens
  14. 2-player or “AI-bot”
  15. Using “AI Design”
  16. 4.9Doing the AI-thing!
  17. Sample Resources
  18. Deeper Dive: A.I. in Connect4 & Go
  19. 4.10Step 3: Create “Play.js”
  20. 4.11Step 4: Create Supporting functions.
  21. 4.12Conclusion

5Phaser v3.16+ Code Review

  1. 5.1HUDRow input Button functions
  2. 5.2Creating the Game Grid
  3. 5.3Toggling Players’ Turn
  4. 5.4Game Over Testing
  5. Controller
  6. Horizontal Checks
  7. Diagonal Checks
  8. Vertical Checks
  9. 5.5HUD Banner Display

6Phaser v2.x.x Code Review

  1. 6.1Play.js Deconstruction
  2. 6.2Play.create Essential Function - Line 43 to 130
  3. 6.3Play.selectCol() - Lines 144 to 191
  4. 6.4HUD Mouse functions
  5. 6.5Validate “4-in-a-row” Winning Conditions
  6. 6.6Declaring a Winner
  7. 6.7Anticipation of Change - Play.js version 2
  8. Other problems for your bespoke solution?
  9. 6.8Conversion Process

7Game Shell - The CMS!

  1. 7.1Generic Main.js
  2. 7.2Generic Boot.js
  3. 7.3Generic Preload.js
  4. 7.4Generic Splash.js or Language.js
  5. 7.5Generic Menu.js
  6. Sample CMS page — Credits.js
  7. Deeper Dive: Using JAMStack as an SSG …
  8. Visit JAMStack http://jamstack.org
  9. Deeper Dive: Static Site Generators (SSG)
  10. 7.6Inside each Game Phase

8Plug-in Enhancements

9Conclusion

10Bonus Development Content

  1. IIIWhat’s next?
  2. 10.1Game Distribution & Marketing
  3. “How to publish a game on the web??”
  4. Introduction: 8-Step Deployment Method.
  5. Shareably (SBLY) looking to rent your Phaser games
  6. 10.2Book Review Protocol
  7. 10.3Tell the world about your game!
  8. Appendix

More Resources

  1. JavaScript Garden
  2. Additional Appendices
  3. Other resources:
  4. Selling your Game Assets

Appendix: Online Game Development

Appendix: Making WebXR Games!

Appendix: Phaser III Plugins

Appendix: “How to Start a WebSocket”

  1. Testing Your Browser
  2. Test sites:
  3. WebSocket Protocol Handshake
  4. Deeper Dive: WebSocket API
  5. Sample Source Code: Client-side WebSocket
  6. Step #1: Game index page
  7. Step #2: Generate Event handlers
  8. Appendix: OLOO - Safe JavaScript
  9. JS Objects: “TL;DR”
  10. 15.2.2 Inside the body of a class definition
  11. Deeper Dive: JS Delegation (aka “Inheritance”?)
  12. The old way
  13. “Object-Oriented JavaScript Pattern Comparison”
  14. ECMA-262 7th Edition / June 2016
  15. Objects Linking to Other Objects (OLOO)
  16. Compare your code
  17. Object.create
  18. Exercise Lesson 9:
  19. Exercise 1
  20. Game Singletons
  21. Deeper Dive: Object Manipulation objects in ES5/6
  22. Lesson Summary
  23. Resource References:

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