Understanding preload() and create()

[Chupup Games]

Where in the documentation can I find this functions? I searched under the Game class, but didn't find anything.

 

var game = new Phaser.Game(..., { preload: preload, create: create})

 

What happens here? Is preload (the 1.) one Variable and the 2. preload is the function assigned to it?

 

Why is it not: preload: preload()   ?

 

I think this is one basic javascript thing, but i couldn't find more information about this. 

 

Can somebody please point me to this topic in the Javascript Documentation, where I can find one explanation about this?

 

Thanks

[rich]

Preload() (with braces) would have invoked the function immediately. Without braces just stores a reference to it which phaser calls later once it has finished booting.

[jerome]

some clues here : https://github.com/photonstorm/phaser/wiki/Phaser-General-Documentation-:-Game

[Chupup Games]

Thanks for the answers, i also should have looked here first: http://www.html5gamedevs.com/topic/1372-phaser-function-order-reserved-names-and-special-uses/