# Code Introduction

This Video Game Code Guidebook is a supplement to the [Video Game Project Guidebook](https://docs.idew.org/project-video-game/).

## What's in this Guidebook?

This guidebook contains a series of **video game code tutorials** to help you get familiar with programming games using the Phaser CE game framework.

In addition, this guidebook contains **coding references** to explain how to use Phaser CE code to create a game world and add various features to the gameplay.

Finally, this guidebook also contains **links to external resources**, such as the Phaser CE API code reference, Phaser CE code examples, and online tools for creating game assets, such as animated sprites and sound effects.

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**HOW TO COPY CODE:**  In this guidebook, you can click the **copy icon** displayed in the upper right of a code block to copy all the code to the clipboard for pasting.
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```javascript
// example code block
var game = new Phaser.Game(800, 600, Phaser.AUTO, 'my-game',
  { preload: preload, create: create, update: update });
```

## Copyright and License

Copyright © 2015-2025 by Jim Lyst and Michael Frontz, Indiana University Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering at Indianapolis.

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