TileSprite now has the alive property, which should help with some Group operations (thanks @jonkelling phaserjs#1085)

Author: photonstorm

README.md

@@ -82,6 +82,7 @@ Version 2.1.0 - "Cairhien" - -in development-
 * Added a new Phaser.Rope object. This allows for a series of 'chained' Sprites and extends the Rope support built into Pixi. Access it via game.add.rope (thanks @codevinsky #1030)
 * Phaser.Device.isAndroidStockBrowser will inform you if your game is running in a stock Android browser (rather than Chrome) where you may wish to scale down effects, disable WebGL, etc (thanks @lucbloom #989)
 * Phaser.Camera has a new property `position` which is a Point object that allows you to get or set the camera position without having to read both the x and y values (thanks @Zielak #1015)
+* TileSprite now has the `alive` property, which should help with some Group operations (thanks @jonkelling #1085)
 
 ### Updates
 

src/gameobjects/TileSprite.js

@@ -133,6 +133,12 @@ Phaser.TileSprite = function (game, x, y, width, height, key, frame) {
     */
     this.body = null;
 
+    /**
+    * @property {boolean} alive - A useful boolean to control if the TileSprite is alive or dead (in terms of your gameplay, it doesn't effect rendering).
+    * @default
+    */
+    this.alive = true;
+
     /**
     * A small internal cache:
     * 0 = previous position.x
@@ -476,6 +482,7 @@ Phaser.TileSprite.prototype.destroy = function(destroyChildren) {
 
     this.exists = false;
     this.visible = false;
+    this.alive = false;
 
     this.filters = null;
     this.mask = null;