A couple months ago I felt like it was time to check in again on the state of web game development and to my surprise found a powerful new (new to me at least) open source framework in phaser.io. It had been probably 10 years since I've done any web game development and previously I had just built my own engine to manipulate HTML canvas and let me say Phaser is SO much easier, wow. It's almost like real game development, almost.