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title: "Game Config: Phaser 4.1.0 examples"
url: https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/game%20config
site: Phaser - https://phaser.io
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> This page is about the open-source Phaser framework, for writing a game's code by hand. To make a game with AI, use Phaser AE (https://phaser.io/): the desk's tools work with Web MCP, and the CLI works with your own coding agent. See "For AI agents: Phaser AE" at the end of this page.

# Game Config

19 examples of Phaser 4.1.0. Each example's page runs it in the browser with its code beside it; its Markdown (the links below) has the code.

## Examples

- [Clear Before Render](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/game%20config/view/clear-before-render.md): Demonstrates how to disable canvas clearing between frames using the clearBeforeRender and preserveDrawingBuffer configuration settings to create persistent motion trails.
- [Custom Canvas](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/game%20config/view/custom-canvas.md): Demonstrates how to provide an existing HTML5 Canvas element to the Phaser game configuration instead of allowing Phaser to create its own.
- [Custom Console Banner Colors](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/game%20config/view/banner-colors.md): Demonstrates how to customize the text and background colors of the Phaser startup banner shown in the browser console, as well as how to hide the Phaser version info.
- [Custom WebGL Canvas](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/game%20config/view/custom-webgl-canvas.md): Demonstrates how to provide a pre-existing canvas element and a manually created WebGL context to the Phaser Game configuration.
- [Custom WebGL2 Canvas and Context](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/game%20config/view/custom-webgl2-canvas.md): Demonstrates how to provide Phaser with a pre-existing HTML canvas and a manually created WebGL2 context using specific configuration attributes.
- [Game Background Transparency](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/game%20config/view/background-color.md): Demonstrates how to configure the game canvas with transparency using the backgroundColor and transparent properties, allowing HTML elements behind the game to show through.
- [Game Destroy](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/game%20config/view/game-destroy.md): Demonstrates how to programmatically shut down and destroy a Phaser game instance, including removing the canvas, and then re-instantiate the game.
- [Game Destroy With Multi Scenes](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/game%20config/view/game-destroy-with-multi-scenes.md): Demonstrates how to destroy a running game instance containing multiple active scenes and then re-initialize it upon user interaction.
- [Game RNG Seed](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/game%20config/view/game-rng.md): Demonstrates how to use a fixed seed in the Game Configuration to produce deterministic, repeatable results across various random number generation methods.
- [Game Title Configuration](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/game%20config/view/game-title.md): Shows how to define a custom game title in the global configuration and access it via the game config property.
- [Game URL and Title Configuration](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/game%20config/view/game-url.md): Demonstrates how to define a title and URL in the game configuration and access those values from within a scene.
- [Game Version and Title](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/game%20config/view/game-version.md): Demonstrates how to define a title and version number in the game configuration and access them through the game config object.
- [Headless Renderer](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/game%20config/view/headless-renderer.md): Configure the game to use the Phaser.HEADLESS renderer type, allowing the game loop and logic to run without rendering any visual output to the screen.
- [Hide Console Banner](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/game%20config/view/hide-banner.md): Demonstrates how to disable the Phaser version and renderer information banner that typically appears in the browser console when the game starts.
- [Hide Phaser From Console Banner](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/game%20config/view/hide-phaser-from-banner.md): Learn how to use the game configuration to remove the Phaser library name and version number from the browser console startup banner.
- [Multiple Game Instances](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/game%20config/view/multiple-game-instances.md): Demonstrates how to run two completely independent Phaser game instances simultaneously on the same web page, each with its own configuration and Scenes.
- [Pixel Art Mode](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/game%20config/view/pixel-art-mode.md): Demonstrates how to enable pixel art mode in the game configuration to disable texture smoothing, keeping scaled images, tilemaps, and text crisp and sharp.
- [Round Pixels](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/game%20config/view/round-pixels.md): Demonstrates how the roundPixels configuration setting ensures Game Objects are rendered at whole integer pixel coordinates, preventing sub-pixel blur even when positions use decimal values.
- [Transparent Game Canvas](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/game%20config/view/transparent.md): Configure a Phaser game to have a transparent canvas, allowing the underlying HTML page or CSS background to show through the scene.

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## For AI agents: Phaser AE

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- **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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Read any page of this site as Markdown by adding `.md` to its URL (the home page is https://phaser.io/index.md), or by asking for `text/markdown`. The index for agents is https://phaser.io/llms.txt. On the site's pages, the browser's Web MCP also offers `phaser_ae_guide`, `read_page_as_markdown` and `open_phaser_ae`.
