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title: "Procedural Maze Generation in Phaser 3"
subtitle: "A tutorial on how to create perfect mazes for your game, including Phaser 3 plugin and demo code."
date: 2019-02-01T00:00:00.000Z
category: tutorial
url: https://phaser.io/news/2019/02/procedural-maze-generation-in-phaser-3
site: Phaser - https://phaser.io
copyright: © 2026 Phaser Studio Inc. All rights reserved.
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# Procedural Maze Generation in Phaser 3

*A tutorial on how to create perfect mazes for your game, including Phaser 3 plugin and demo code.*

![image](procedural-maze-generation-in-phaser-3.png)

This is a great tutorial by supernapie all about creating procedural mazes in Phaser 3 using a combination of a handy npm package and a custom Phaser 3 plugin: "A nice way to add variety to your game is random levels. In this article i will explain how i made the mazes for Esciit and Acid Sink.

Straight to the point: I didn't figure out the math to create these mazes myself. Actually I only had to implement an existing npm-package called generate-maze and visualize the output with Phaser objects. The package is a javascript implementation of Eller's algorithm. The algorithm is said to create 'perfect' mazes, with a single path between any two cells.

The generate-maze library only generates a two-dimensional array of maze cells, which have the following properties..."

[Read More](https://supernapie.com/blog/procedural-generated-maze-in-phaser-3)

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