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title: "Phaser Matter Collision Plugin"
subtitle: "A helpful plugin that wraps up the Matter collision logic in a friendly and more modular way."
date: 2018-09-13T00:00:00.000Z
category: tutorial
url: https://phaser.io/news/2018/09/phaser-matter-collision-plugin
site: Phaser - https://phaser.io
copyright: © 2026 Phaser Studio Inc. All rights reserved.
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# Phaser Matter Collision Plugin

*A helpful plugin that wraps up the Matter collision logic in a friendly and more modular way.*

![image](phaser-matter-collision-plugin.gif)

"This is a plugin for making it easier to manage collisions with the Phaser game engine and the Matter.js physics engine.

Matter is one of the cool physics engine choices you have in Phaser 3. Phaser has a thin wrapper over Matter's API, so you need to dig into Matter's native collision event system if you want to detect and respond to collisions. That system just gives you a dump of all the pairs of bodies that collided in a tick of the engine. This plugin wraps up that collision logic in a friendlier, more modular way."

[Read More](https://github.com/mikewesthad/phaser-matter-collision-plugin)

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