Phaser - help with movement/update function

[ziga-miklic]

Hello!

 

I just started working with Phaser (really enjoy working with it) and now that I have gone through their examples, I want to create a game like the old school Nokia Snake game (it is a tradition for me that the first game I create is the old school snake when starting working with a game framework/library )

 

My question is: what is the best way to create a "block like movement" - one sprite moves exactly one sprite size per update (currently using the velocity or changing the x/y position moves the sprite fluidly, because of the update ratio).

 

Do I change the update function to be triggered less frequently? Do I create a counter inside of the update function and only trigger the movement on a specific count? Or is there another more elegant solution?

 

Sorry for the wall of text And thank you for your help

 

TL;DR: how to create a non-fluid movement (one size per interval)

[Mike]

Short answer:

 

1. Tile map with movement on tiles so when user press "Right" it goes from tile  1,1 (x,y)   to 1,2

 

2. Ditch physics for the moment Nokia Snake doesn't have one so you don't need it too

 

Also you can do the whole thing without tilemaps and with arrays.

 

Here a little jquery based Snake game:

http://jquery-snakey.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/index.html

 

I'll try to make a little example for "blocky" movement in the weekend.