---
title: "Creating Animated Scoring Tutorial"
subtitle: "A handy guide to adding scoring effects to your games."
date: 2015-10-26T00:00:00.000Z
category: tutorial
url: https://phaser.io/news/2015/10/creating-animated-scoring-tutorial
site: Phaser - https://phaser.io
copyright: © 2026 Phaser Studio Inc. All rights reserved.
---

# Creating Animated Scoring Tutorial

*A handy guide to adding scoring effects to your games.*

![image](creating-animated-scoring-tutorial.gif)

"When it comes to games (and apps in general really), I’m a big believer that making your game just that little bit more juicy can make the overall quality and enjoyability of your game increase drastically.

Juicy is clearly a pretty vague term, but I think it’s pretty fitting (think biting into a juicy orange filled with flavour). In the context of a game this would mean adding things like:

* When the player collides with something or kills an enemy, add some particle effects
* If the player is running fast have their hair or cape blow in the wind
* Create tweens and animations for things
* Add sound effects

To give you an example, in a game I’m working on right now I’ve created a more interesting scoreboard by adding some animations."

[Read More](http://www.joshmorony.com/creating-animated-scoring-in-an-html5-phaser-game/)

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