Tap to move

[brianwik]

Hi all, so I'm still very new to Phaser but I really want to learn this!

 

So my first question is ... instead of holding down the left or right key to move I want to set it so that you have to repeatedly tap the right button to move right instead of holding it down.

So every time the right key is tapped a small like 1 frame animation will happen and the character will move say 3 pixels forward. so this will continue every time you tap.

 

hope I made this clear enough and thanks in advance!

[lewster32]

Instead of polling the cursors for isDown in the update like most examples, you'd use the provided Signals (events) on the Key objects, something like this: http://jsfiddle.net/lewster32/mStRx/

 

This solution isn't totally ideal - it loses the ability to move diagonally for instance, but it should be fine for most applications. If you need diagonals as well, you'd have to add a bit more complexity to the code.