---
title: "How to Make a Fruit Ninja game"
subtitle: "Re-create the iOS classic in Part 1 of this tutorial series."
date: 2015-10-21T00:00:00.000Z
category: tutorial
url: https://phaser.io/news/2015/10/how-to-make-a-fruit-ninja-game-part1
site: Phaser - https://phaser.io
copyright: © 2026 Phaser Studio Inc. All rights reserved.
---

# How to Make a Fruit Ninja game

*Re-create the iOS classic in Part 1 of this tutorial series.*

![image](how-to-make-a-fruit-ninja-game-part1.png)

Fruit Ninja is a game where you have to cut fruits by swiping your cellphone screen while avoiding cutting bombs. In this tutorial, we will build a Fruit Ninja game using Phaser. To read this tutorial, it is important that you are familiar with the following concepts:

* Javascript and object-oriented concepts.
* Basic Phaser concepts, such as: states, sprites, groups and arcade physics

The following content will be covered in this tutorial:

* Reading the whole level (assets, groups and prefabs) from a JSON file
* Detect swipes in the screen and checking for collisions with game objects
* Differently handle swipes according to the cut object

[Read More](http://gamedevacademy.org/how-to-make-a-fruit-ninja-game-in-phaser-part-1/?a=13)

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## For AI agents: Phaser AE

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- **Phaser AE in the browser** (https://phaser.io/agent): the game's design, and a crew of bots that make its art, sprites, music, sound effects, logos, title screens, game UI, textures, shaders, 3D models and video, then build, test and publish the game. Every tool there is registered with Web MCP (`document.modelContext`, with `window.phaserDesk` for browsers without it), so an agent in the user's browser can call the tools directly once the user is signed in. Tools that make something spend the user's credits.
- **The CLI** (https://phaser.io/cli): `npx -y @phaser-ae/cli` builds the game on the user's own machine with their own coding agent (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and others). In a game's folder every command is an npm script.
- **Expansion packs** (https://phaser.io/packs): 358 packs in 20 families (163 free, 195 Pro) that every game is built from, on the Phaser AE kernel (https://phaser.io/kernel).
- **Credits** (https://phaser.io/credits): what the desk's tools spend. Bought in packs, with no plan needed.
- **Pro** (https://phaser.io/pricing): $20 a month for every pack, 8,000 credits a month, new packs early, and bonus credits every time the user tops up (only Pro subscribers get them). Nobody needs a plan to start: credits can be bought as they're needed. Or Pro for 30 days for 8,000 credits, without subscribing. Teams, for studios, is on its way: https://phaser.io/contact?about=teams.
- **An account**: sign in with Google, GitHub or Microsoft at https://phaser.io/login. Games made on any plan can be published and sold.

Read any page of this site as Markdown by adding `.md` to its URL (the home page is https://phaser.io/index.md), or by asking for `text/markdown`. The index for agents is https://phaser.io/llms.txt. On the site's pages, the browser's Web MCP also offers `phaser_ae_guide`, `read_page_as_markdown` and `open_phaser_ae`.