This is a great resource of examples; the author uses Phaser for all the samples:
http://gamemechanicexplorer.com
Phaser – A fast, fun and free open source HTML5 game framework
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#12I built a shooter with limited bullets with his. It was fun. I now encourage students to use this library. See my silly game at http://escape.bphogan.com. It should work with a mouse or keyboard.
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#13I really REALLY like the examples they put up. This is a good resource for an entry level game-designer/programmer to try out some ideas.
It's true, the examples are nicely presented. Full game examples would be good though. The community section has some, but I couldn't find anything really impressive.
The car on terrain box2d example looks promising, but the question is, how does it perform in the context of a full game? Hillclimb Racing is the benchmark to aim for... great native app game. If we can get that performance happening in the browser with these engines then we're doing okay, but I can't help doubting these engines are up to Hillclimb Racing standards. That is, fast and smooth with lots of track loaded in memory. Even the native app suffers a slight stutter on occasion as it loads more track ahead, so I wonder how much track can be in memory in the browser. (I'm guessing these side scrolling games have a maximum window of game area available at any one time).
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#14I looked at phaser recently, but couldn't find any examples of successful games made with it. Are there any success stories?
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#15After trying out several HTML5/JS game libraries, I'm pretty sure that Phaser is the best one for 2D games. It has frequent updates, great documentation and an awesome community support, too. One can learn a tremendous amount of game development techniques just be reading the source code of Phaser.
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#16I looked at phaser recently, but couldn't find any examples of successful games made with it. Are there any success stories?
The makers of Phaser.io were commissioned to make a game for each of the emotions from "Inside Out". I believe it's on their blog or the main developers blog.
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#17Is there any way to eliminate mouse lag? For example, in http://gamemechanicexplorer.com/#raycasting-2 the light source lags visibly behind the pointer. I'd prefer it it was locked to the pointer.
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#18I looked at phaser recently, but couldn't find any examples of successful games made with it. Are there any success stories?
You know, this is one of the things that I think is really important in a game engine: Has a fully polished game ever shipped using the engine.
It's easy, by comparison, to get to the 80% point with a game -- especially if you have a sample to start from that's somewhat close to what you want to create. What's hard is making every little bit work correctly; creating a finished product that doesn't have glitches, that works on all devices/in all browsers, and that has a good "feel" throughout. That last bit of polish, that last "20%", probably takes well over 80% of the time; I'd estimate it at about 95% of the time. And if you start with an "80%" engine that hasn't gone through that polish phase at least once, then you're doing all that work yourself.
This isn't precisely what you asked: You asked for success stories. A casual browsing of the site doesn't find any published game lists, though. The creators of Phaser.io do have a list of games THEY'VE published with it:
http://www.photonstorm.com/games
Look at the "HTML5" options; they used to make games in Flash.
I looked at Phaser a while back, and decided against using it. None of those games actually look much more complicated than a proof-of-concept, 80%-at-most demo.
On the other hand, Cocos2d-X has been used in dozens of hit games, and they are up to v3.0 of Cocos2d-js, which looks awesome, has an amazing free toolchain you can use, works in a browser, AND can be embedded in a custom wrapper on mobile (something like PhoneGap/Cordova, only tuned and optimized for game development -- it includes SpiderMonkey directly, for instance, so you don't have to worry about what browser it's running in).
The choice wasn't that hard.
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#19I looked at phaser recently, but couldn't find any examples of successful games made with it. Are there any success stories?
The homepage, http://phaser.io/, is literally covered with games created with Phaser, many of them non-trivial.
You can find the full blog roll here: http://phaser.io/news/category/game
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#20I looked at phaser recently, but couldn't find any examples of successful games made with it. Are there any success stories?
You know, this is one of the things that I think is really important in a game engine: Has a fully polished game ever shipped using the engine. It's easy , by comparison, to get to the 80% point with a game -- especially if you have a sample to start from that's somewhat close to what you want to create. What's hard is making every little bit work correctly; creating a finished product that doesn't have glitches, tha…
I shipped one of the first large games with Haxe on iOS (in ~2011), and I am at a loss for words to describe just how right you are.
My game was complete, but the garbage collector would randomly crash, every hour or so. I spent nearly two weeks reading through incomprehensible C++ code, and completely failed to fix the problem myself.
Hugh, the creator of NekoNME, graciously helped me after I sent in a deterministically crashing test case, and that's the only reason the game was shipped at all. I consider myself a competent developer, but utterly incapable of debugging someone elses GC.
I also had to make a whole bunch of smaller fixes (eg adding in app purchases, fixing leaks etc), but those things I expected.
If you're evaluating an engine for use, there should either be a flawless game more complex than what you're trying to accomplish, or you should be ready, willing and able to traverse the full stack fixing whatever comes up.
(Note: Haxe is battle tested now.)