Developer Builds Browser Survival Game Using Phaser, OpenAI Codex, and SpriteShip

A developer combined three tools — Phaser 3, OpenAI's Codex, and the SpriteShip asset platform — to build a fully playable top-down survival game called Last Light. The game features an animated player character, multiple enemy types, sixteen weapons, sixteen collectibles, upgrades, and a boss encounter, all running in desktop and mobile browsers. Development began with a plain functional prototype to establish core systems such as movement, enemy spawning, and difficulty progression before any art was introduced. SpriteShip generated structured animation data including atlas frames, looping behavior, and collision-body definitions, which integrated directly with Phaser 3's native atlas loader. The workflow — describing an asset, generating it in SpriteShip, then letting Codex wire the exported data into Phaser — allowed art and code to evolve together without the asset pipeline stalling the project.