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title: "Make a Rope or Swing using Matter Physics"
subtitle: "Create a rope/swing prototype in less than 100 lines of code using Phaser and Matter.js."
date: 2019-07-23T00:00:00.000Z
category: tutorial
url: https://phaser.io/news/2019/07/make-a-rope-or-swing-using-matter-physics
site: Phaser - https://phaser.io
copyright: © 2026 Phaser Studio Inc. All rights reserved.
---

# Make a Rope or Swing using Matter Physics

*Create a rope/swing prototype in less than 100 lines of code using Phaser and Matter.js.*

![image](make-a-rope-or-swing-using-matter-physics.png)

Emanuele Feronato starts a new series of Matter Physics related tutorials: "Mikey Hooks is a great game. Fullstop.

I liked so much the way the player used the hook, and I built prototypes using Flash + Box2D, Flash + Nape (Nape seems to be discontinued), Phaser + Box2D and Unity.

No matter the language, engine or framework you are using to build your hooks, they will all rely on a constraint called distance joint.

A constraint on a system is a parameter that the system must obey. In this case, the constraint is a distance joint which says “no matter what happens, there must be a given distance between two bodies”.

And that’s all:"

[Read More](https://www.emanueleferonato.com/2019/02/22/build-a-html5-game-like-mikey-hooks-using-phaser-and-matter-js/)

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