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SUMMARY: This post: HOW TO 2nd post: Original question that originated this post 3rd post: Research log concerning some problems and workarounds pertinent to this how-to THIS HOW-TO IS IN AN UNUSABLE STATE, AND HAS BEEN NOW ABANDONED. SORRY FOR THE NOISE. Okay, so after some hours of research here's what I came up with, in case anyone's interested or as a future reference for myself. These are the configuration steps to set up a Phaser project in Eclipse Mars.2 (4.5.2). I guess these might change from version to version, but remain essentially similar. You'll need to set up a local web server, but this is beyond the scope of these instructions. In my case I installed a WAMP (Windows-Apache-MySQL-PHP). 1. Head to http://phaser.io/download/stable and click on "clone". In my case this took me to: https://github.com/photonstorm/phaser/tree/v2.4.8 2. Click on "Clone or download". A dialog unfolds with the git repository URL. Copy to clipboard. In my case it was: https://github.com/photonstorm/phaser.git 3. Go to Eclipse and: Window->Perspective->Open perspective->Other->Git->Ok 4. Select to clone a Git repository. Paste in URI field->Next 5. Select All. Theoretically IIUC you should only need the "Master" branch. But I selected all just in case.->Next 6. It will want to clone in some default directory. It's okay like that, just copy the directory path to the clipboard for later.->Finish 7. Go tease you favorite pet/mate while the repository is cloning. 8. Window->Preferences->JavaScript->Include Path->User Libraries->New->Enter "Phaser" as the library name->Add folder->Paste in the "folder" field->Ok 9. Still in Preferences->General->Web Browser->Use external web browser->Select your html5 browser. In my case I left it at "Default system web browser", which is Chrome. 10. Still in Preferences->Server->Runtime Environments->Add->Basic->HTTP Server->Next->Enter your HTTP local server's web directory in the "Publishing Directory" field. In my case this was: "C:\wamp\www"->Finish->Ok 11. Window->Perspective->Open perspective->Other->Web->Ok 12. File->New->Static Web Project->Enter your project's name in the "Project name" field->Select HTTP Server in Target runtime->Finish 13. Right click on your project->Properties->JavaScript->Include Path->Libraries->Add a JavaScript Library->User Library->Select Phaser->Finish->Ok 14. Download https://github.com/photonstorm/phaser/raw/master/resources/tutorials/01%20Getting%20Started/hellophaser.zip or head to http://phaser.io/tutorials/getting-started/part6 and look for the hello phaser example if the previous link didn't work->Unzip in a temporary folder and drag the contents to your project's "WebContent" folder in Eclipse.->Copy files->Ok 15. Right click on WebContent->Import->General->File System->Next->Browse to your git root directory\phaser\build->Select it->Ok->Check phaser.min.js->Finish->Overwrite?:Yes --- OR --- Use your system browser to open the aforementioned directory and drag phaser.min.js to your WebContent on Eclipse and overwrite. 16. Reformat your code from this: var game = new Phaser.Game(800, 600, Phaser.AUTO, '', { preload: preload, create: create, update: update, render: render }); function preload () { } function create () { } function update () { } function render () { } to this: var state = new Phaser.State(); state.preload=preload; state.create=create; state.update=update; state.render=render; var game = new Phaser.Game(800, 600, Phaser.AUTO, '', state); function preload () { } function create () { } function update () { } function render () { } (More info about this in 3rd post) 17. Right click on your project->Run As->1 Run on Server->Basic->HTTP Server->Next->You might need to change your HTTP Port if your server doesn't default to listening on port 80->Finish Your project should have opened in your browser. NOTE: 1. I have no idea if step 14 is correct, or whether you need to include other files in your project's web content directory. 2. If Content Assist (that's what's called the feature I was calling autocomplete) doesn't pop up, hit CTRL+Spacebar. It should work and display Phaser's API documentation. 3. For following new projects you just need to follow steps: 12 to 17, as long as you don't switch your workspace, of course. 4. I will edit this post to reflect changes if you point out any errors in the procedure, etc. Cheers, Eneko P.S.: Setting up IDEs is always a nightmare, isn't it? Unless you got some template...