Shootemup Bullet/Weapon types: Best Practices

[magnadrake]

Hello,

I'm new to Phaser 3 and I'm trying to make a vertical scrolling shooter as I learn. So far I've been able to make the player shoots bullets by translating this tutorial from Phaser 2 into Phaser 3:

https://phaser.io/tutorials/coding-tips-007

But I'm stumped when I try to implement the weapon changing system into Phaser 3. I'm not very experienced in javascript and how it handles classes/objects and I'm mainly a Unity developer. And as far as I know, Phaser 3 docs are still incomplete so I can't actually look through it to find equivalent or similar methods from Phaser 2.

For now, I'd like to create a weapon type that slows enemy movement speed. Pointers on how to approach this in Phaser 3 would be very helpful.

Thanks.

[samme]

Use an Arcade.Group for each projectile type. Look at the Pools examples. You probably won't have to create any classes.

You can add an overlap collider with a callback for each Group. You can slow enemies by reducing their maxVelocity.