Building a game without sprites

[PeterUstinox]

Hi!

I just started out with Phaser and am trying to build a little "mouse shoot on targets" game.

Those targets are just Phaser.Circle objects and i have drawn them on the canvas with graphics on the same place.

The problem:

since those circle objects aren't display objects (i.e. sprites) i can't add them to groups. which makes it harder for me to put mouse click handlers on them. 

basically everything i do feels like a huge workaround without sprites. 

Initially i didn't want to use sprites, because of the missing textures. i just wanted them to draw in a plain color. 

 

I saw this game http://phaser.io/news/2015/08/zero

which looks like it doesn't use sprites either. rather geometry objects.

am i wrong? 

 

do i have to have a texture for a sprite?

is it insanely stupid to avoid sprites for my kind of game?

[rich]

You've a couple of options:

 

1) Use the new Create class (http://phaser.io/examples/v2/category/create)

 

2) Use a Graphics object to render your Circles, and then call generateTexture() on it - and use those textures for your Sprites.

[Tilde]

Woah, is that sixteen colors from the Create class the exact same sixteen I'm using for my game? Is this palette more popular than I thought?

 

That's awesome, now I can just easily add an emblem creator and have it match the colors I'm using.

[PeterUstinox]

awesome thanks! such a huge framework! great things to discover!

[rich]

Woah, is that sixteen colors from the Create class the exact same sixteen I'm using for my game? Is this palette more popular than I thought?

 

That's awesome, now I can just easily add an emblem creator and have it match the colors I'm using.

 

Arne's 16 colour palette is pretty popular with pixel artists, yes.