---
title: "Enabling the Arcade physics on a game object"
docs: "Phaser Editor v4"
url: https://phaser.io/oss/docs/phaser-editor/v4/scene-editor/arcade-physics/arcade-physics-add-body
site: Phaser - https://phaser.io
---

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# Enabling the Arcade physics on a game object

You can enable an Arcade physics body in any game object:

* Select the object and open the context menu.
* In the **Arcade Physics** menu, select the **Add Body** option.
  
  ![Add Arcade body to an object](https://cdn.phaser.io/editor-docs/arcade-physics-add-body-20221005.webp)

* Press the `B` key for [editing the body’s offset & size](https://phaser.io/oss/docs/phaser-editor/v4/scene-editor/manipulation-tools.md#arcade-physics-body-tool):

  ![Edit the body's size with the tool.](https://cdn.phaser.io/editor-docs/arcade-physics-edit-body-tool.webp)

* Or edit any other body’s property in the Inspector view:

  ![Edit the body's properties in the Inspector view.](https://cdn.phaser.io/editor-docs/arcade-physics-edit-body-inspector.webp)

You can remove the body of the object. In the same **Arcade Physics**, select the **Remove Body** option. This option is only available if the selected object is not a [built-in Arcade Image or Arcade Sprite](https://phaser.io/oss/docs/phaser-editor/v4/scene-editor/arcade-physics/arcade-physics-add-object.md) object.

When you add a physics body to the object, the code for creating the object is generated like this:

```javascript
const gorilla = this.add.image(379, 271, "gorilla")
    as Phaser.GameObjects.Image & { body: Phaser.Physics.Arcade.Body };
this.physics.add.existing(gorilla, false);
```

Notice the `as Phaser.GameObjects.Image & { body: Phaser.Physics.Arcade.Body }` expression. It is telling to the TypeScript compiler the object created by the the `image(...)` method is an `Image` but also has an Arcade body. That annotation is required for generating valid TypeScript code.

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## For AI agents: Phaser AE

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- **Phaser AE in the browser** (https://phaser.io/agent): the game's design, and a crew of bots that make its art, sprites, music, sound effects, logos, title screens, game UI, textures, shaders, 3D models and video, then build, test and publish the game. Every tool there is registered with Web MCP (`document.modelContext`, with `window.phaserDesk` for browsers without it), so an agent in the user's browser can call the tools directly once the user is signed in. Tools that make something spend the user's credits.
- **The CLI** (https://phaser.io/cli): `npx -y @phaser-ae/cli` builds the game on the user's own machine with their own coding agent (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and others). In a game's folder every command is an npm script.
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