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title: "Grid Physics Plugin"
subtitle: "A new plugin to help with grid / tile based movement and physics, with loads of cool features."
date: 2017-02-16T00:00:00.000Z
category: tutorial
url: https://phaser.io/news/2017/02/grid-physics-plugin
site: Phaser - https://phaser.io
copyright: © 2026 Phaser Studio Inc. All rights reserved.
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# Grid Physics Plugin

*A new plugin to help with grid / tile based movement and physics, with loads of cool features.*

![image](grid-physics-plugin.png)

nkholski has released his Grid Physics Plugin for Phaser. This adds support for grid / tile based movement and physics. It's still in early stages, but the feature list is impressive and the source is on GitHub:

Current features

* Any grid size  (not necessarily squares, i.e. 8x16 is possible, and not restricted to sprite or tile sizes).
* Turn-based or real-time.
* Visual debugging
* Tile dimensions may differ from grid dimensions (but needs to be multiple of the grid dimensions, like 16x16 tiles on an 8x8 grid).
* Collision detection against tile layers
* Tile collisions on specified directions only
* Body size is not restricted to grid-size, and different body sizes may co-exist (but must be equal or a multiple of grid dimensions. The sprite graphics may differ from body size.)
* Path finding (easystar.js dependency)
* Moveable objects (can be chained, i.e. the player push one crate against another crate that will also move).
* Mass (and strength that limit total mass that can be pushed by the power of one sprite)
* Velocity, ("struggle" property that can slow down a body based on mass pushed)
* Populated properties like isMoving.x (boolean) or isBlocked.top (boolean).

[Read More](http://www.html5gamedevs.com/topic/28051-grid-physics-plugin/)

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