---
title: "Multi-Touch Game Object Events"
description: "Demonstrates how to enable multiple simultaneous touch pointers and handle pointer events on several Game Objects at once."
phaser: "4.1.0"
size: "800x600"
files: 1
url: https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/input/multitouch/view/multi-down-test
site: Phaser - https://phaser.io
---

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# Multi-Touch Game Object Events

Demonstrates how to enable multiple simultaneous touch pointers and handle pointer events on several Game Objects at once.

A Phaser 4.1.0 example in [Input / Multitouch](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/input/multitouch.md). It runs at 800 × 600, and loads its assets from https://cdn.phaserfiles.com/v410. See it running, with its code, at https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/input/multitouch/view/multi-down-test.

To run it, load Phaser 4.1.0 (`https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/phaser@4.1.0/dist/phaser.min.js`), then the file, on a page with a `<div id="game-container">`.

## Code

### multi down test.js

```js
class Example extends Phaser.Scene
{
    preload ()
    {
        this.load.setBaseURL('https://cdn.phaserfiles.com/v410');
        this.load.setPath('assets/input');
        this.load.image([ 'p', 'h', 'a', 's', 'e', 'r' ]);
    }

    create ()
    {
        this.input.addPointer(5);

        const p = this.add.image(0, 0, 'p').setInteractive();
        const h = this.add.image(0, 0, 'h').setInteractive();
        const a = this.add.image(0, 0, 'a').setInteractive();
        const s = this.add.image(0, 0, 's').setInteractive();
        const e = this.add.image(0, 0, 'e').setInteractive();
        const r = this.add.image(0, 0, 'r').setInteractive();

        Phaser.Actions.GridAlign([ p, h, a, s, e, r ], {
            width: 6,
            cellWidth: 132,
            cellHeight: 200,
            x: 68,
            y: 300
        });

        this.input.on('gameobjectdown', (pointer, gameObject) =>
        {

            gameObject.setTint(0xffff00, 0xffff00, 0xff0000, 0xff0000).setTintMode(Phaser.TintModes.FILL);

        });

        this.input.on('gameobjectup', (pointer, gameObject) =>
        {

            gameObject.clearTint();

        });
    }
}

const config = {
    scale: { mode: Phaser.Scale.FIT },
    type: Phaser.AUTO,
    parent: 'game-container',
    width: 800,
    height: 600,
    backgroundColor: '#efefef',
    scene: Example
};

const game = new Phaser.Game(config);
```

## More in Multitouch

- [Multi-Touch Drag](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/input/multitouch/view/multi-drag.md): Demonstrates how to enable multi-touch dragging by adding extra input pointers and making multiple Game Objects interactive and draggable simultaneously.
- [Multi-Touch Hover States](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/input/multitouch/view/multi-over-test.md): Demonstrates how multiple pointers can independently trigger 'over' and 'out' events on interactive objects simultaneously, enabling multi-touch hover detection.
- [Multi-Touch Input with Multiple Pointers](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/input/multitouch/view/two-touch-inputs.md): Demonstrates how to enable support for multiple simultaneous touch points by adding extra pointers to the input manager and tracking their individual states.
- [Multi-Touch Piano](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/input/multitouch/view/multi-touch-test.md): A demonstration of multi-touch support using a playable piano. It shows how to enable multiple simultaneous pointers and handle interaction events across several objects at once.

---

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