--- title: "Palm Strike Miami Fight: A Little Havana Browser Fighting Game Built with Phaser" subtitle: "A flying flip-flop against a spray can, and the first fighter to win two rounds takes the match." date: 2026-10-23T13:00:00.000Z category: game url: https://phaser.io/news/2026/10/miami-fight-phaser-fighting-game site: Phaser - https://phaser.io copyright: © 2026 Phaser Studio Inc. All rights reserved. --- # Palm Strike Miami Fight: A Little Havana Browser Fighting Game Built with Phaser *A flying flip-flop against a spray can, and the first fighter to win two rounds takes the match.* _**Palm Strike: Miami Fight**_ is a **pixel-art arcade fighting game** that brings Miami personality to the browser. The showdown takes place on **Calle Ocho in Little Havana**, it is a game from [Purple Horizons](https://purplehorizons.io/), and it runs with **no download required**. It is a **free prototype** with two playable fighters and one stage. ## Doña Chancleta vs Kilo: Two Fighters, One Block There are two fighters to choose from. **Doña Chancleta** is the original enforcer, a Cuban grandmother armed with a flying flip-flop. **Kilo** is the Wynwood wildcard, armed with a spray can. Land light and heavy attacks, block your rival, jump over projectiles and build meter for a **super**. The first fighter to win **two rounds** takes the match. A roster of **eight fighters** has been designed, and two are playable today. The six waiting on the bench are El Cafetero, Brisa, Reina Salsa, Capitán Gator, Patina and Don Yate. ​ ![]($/news/2026/10/palm-strike-1.png) ## How to Play _**Palm Strike Miami Fight**_: Solo, Local Versus and Controls You can fight the **CPU** or choose **local two-player mode** and share one keyboard, since versus play takes place on the same device. Touch controls are available on touch devices. * **Player 1:** WASD to move, jump and crouch, J, K and L for light, heavy and special attacks, and I for the super when the meter is full * **Player 2:** the arrow keys to move, jump and crouch, 1, 2 and 3 for light, heavy and special attacks, and 0 for the super * **Blocking:** hold away from your opponent, and use down plus away to block in place * **Pause and restart:** Escape pauses and R restarts The game also offers a few street smarts: time your jump to clear projectiles, and save your meter for a super. Under the hood, the game runs a fixed **60 simulation steps per second** with buffered inputs, and it has automated tests, which is what keeps the fights feeling fair. ​ ![]($/news/2026/10/palm-strike-2.png) ## Little Havana at Sunset: Stage, Music and Sound The stage is **Little Havana at sunset on Calle Ocho**, with three parallax layers and six looping animations: the crowd, the domino players, a rooster, café steam, a neon sign and a palm tree. Stand still for a second and the block keeps moving around you. The sound gets the same attention, with **eight Cuban and arcade music tracks**, 32 sound effects, 27 voice lines including an announcer, and crowd ambience. > "Make yourself at home. Then throw a chancleta." The game's help screen puts it best. > > ​ > > ![]($/news/2026/10/palm-strike-3.png) ## Inspect the 3D Arcade Cabinet _**Palm Strike: Miami Fight**_ also comes with a **3D cabinet viewer**, built with Three.js, where you can inspect the textured Palm Strike machine and see a preview of the game on its screen. Drag to rotate, scroll or pinch to zoom, and close the viewer to return to your paused match. ![]($/news/2026/10/palm-strike-4.png) ## How _**Palm Strike Miami Fight**_ Was Built: Phaser 3.90, AI-Generated Art and Human QA _**Palm Strike: Miami Fight**_ runs on **Phaser 3.90 on WebGL**, written in TypeScript and bundled with Vite, with Three.js powering the cabinet viewer. Purple Horizons, co-founded by Gianni D'Alerta, went from starting the project to a playable game in about **four hours**. The team is upfront about how the art was made: the characters and the Miami concept are original, but the art was **generated with AI under human direction** and then edited through a lot of QA, and the sprites were not hand-painted. The project took 208 generations at a cost of $18.80, and the code was written with AI assistance too. > _Palm Strike: Miami Fight_ is a **prototype** from [Purple Horizons](https://purplehorizons.io/), playable at [miamifight.com](https://miamifight.com/). Next up are more characters from the roster, full animation sets and online multiplayer, and the team is asking players which fighter they want next. ## Play _**Palm Strike Miami Fight**_ in Your Browser Free, no download required. Fight the CPU, or share one keyboard with a friend. [Play Now](https://miamifight.com/) --- ## For AI agents: Phaser AE Phaser AE (Agentic Edition) is how people make games with AI on phaser.io. 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