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title: "Scalemanager: Phaser 4.1.0 examples"
url: https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/scalemanager
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.

# Scalemanager

24 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

- [Device Orientation Detection](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/scalemanager/view/orientation-check.md): How to detect orientation changes between portrait and landscape modes using the Scale Manager to display prompts or adjust game state.
- [Envelop Scale Mode](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/scalemanager/view/envelop.md): Demonstrates the ENVELOP scale mode which scales the game to completely fill the parent container while maintaining aspect ratio, potentially cropping the canvas to fit.
- [Fit and Snap](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/scalemanager/view/fit-and-snap.md): Demonstrates using the Scale Manager's FIT mode combined with a snap configuration to scale the game canvas in discrete increments based on a fixed resolution.
- [Fit Scale Mode](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/scalemanager/view/fit.md): This example demonstrates how to use the FIT scale mode to automatically resize the game canvas to fit its parent container while strictly maintaining the aspect ratio.
- [Fit Scale Mode with Min and Max](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/scalemanager/view/fit-min-max.md): Demonstrates how to use the FIT scale mode while enforcing minimum and maximum width and height constraints on the game canvas.
- [Fit with Auto Center](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/scalemanager/view/fit-with-auto-center.md): Scales the game to fit the parent container while maintaining its aspect ratio and centering the canvas both horizontally and vertically.
- [Fullscreen Mode Toggle](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/scalemanager/view/full-screen-game.md): Demonstrates how to switch the game to fullscreen and back using either an interactive UI button or a keyboard shortcut (F key) via the Scale Manager.
- [Height Controls Width Scale Mode](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/scalemanager/view/height-controls-width.md): This example demonstrates the HEIGHT_CONTROLS_WIDTH scale mode, which automatically adjusts the game width based on the height of the parent container while maintaining the aspect ratio.
- [Input with Camera Transforms](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/scalemanager/view/world-input.md): Demonstrates how to map pointer coordinates from screen space to world space while the camera is panned, zoomed, or rotated.
- [Manual Resize and Aspect Ratio Fit](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/scalemanager/view/resize-and-fit.md): Demonstrates how to use the RESIZE scale mode to manually manage multiple scenes with different scaling rules. One scene fills the entire window while another maintains a fixed aspect ratio and centers itself using camera viewports.
- [Manually Resize](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/scalemanager/view/manually-resize.md): Demonstrates how to handle game resizing manually by disabling automatic scaling and updating the camera and game objects in response to window resize events.
- [Manually Resize With Zoom](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/scalemanager/view/manually-resize-with-zoom.md): Demonstrates how to manually update the game scale and recalculate the maximum zoom level using Phaser.Scale.MAX_ZOOM when the Scale Manager mode is set to NONE.
- [Mobile Responsive Game Layout](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/scalemanager/view/mobile-game-example.md): Demonstrates a multi-scene approach for mobile games where a flexible background fills the entire screen while the main game area maintains a fixed aspect ratio. It uses the Scale Manager's resize event, camera viewports, and manual zoom calculations to keep the game centered and scaled across different device resolutions.
- [No Scale with Auto Center](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/scalemanager/view/no-scale-with-auto-center.md): This example shows how to disable canvas scaling while keeping the game centered both horizontally and vertically within its parent container.
- [Resize Game on Click](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/scalemanager/view/resize-on-click.md): Demonstrates how to dynamically change the game dimensions at runtime using the Scale Manager's resize method in response to user input.
- [Resize with Minimum and Maximum Limits](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/scalemanager/view/resize-min-max.md): Demonstrates how to use the Scale Manager to resize the game while enforcing minimum and maximum dimensions via the game configuration.
- [Scale Manager Envelop Mode with Min and Max](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/scalemanager/view/envelop-min-max.md): Demonstrates using the ENVELOP scale mode to fill a parent container while enforcing specific minimum and maximum size constraints on the game canvas.
- [Scale Manager Fit Mode with Game](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/scalemanager/view/fit-running-game.md): Demonstrates using the Scale Manager FIT mode to resize a platformer game, ensuring it scales to fill the available space while maintaining its aspect ratio and staying centered.
- [Scale Manager Resize Event](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/scalemanager/view/resize.md): Demonstrates how to use the RESIZE scale mode and the resize event to dynamically update camera dimensions and reposition game objects when the browser window is resized.
- [Scale Mode: NONE](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/scalemanager/view/no-scale.md): This example demonstrates how to disable automatic canvas scaling by setting the scale mode to NONE, keeping the game at its fixed internal resolution.
- [Width Controls Height Scale Mode](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/scalemanager/view/width-controls-height.md): Demonstrates the WIDTH_CONTROLS_HEIGHT scale mode, which automatically adjusts the game's height based on the available width while maintaining the aspect ratio.
- [Zoom Manual Resize](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/scalemanager/view/zoom-manual-resize.md): Demonstrates how to dynamically update the canvas zoom level at runtime using the Scale Manager.
- [Zoom With Fit](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/scalemanager/view/zoom-with-fit.md): Demonstrates how to use the zoom property in combination with the FIT scale mode to upscale a low-resolution canvas while maintaining its aspect ratio within the parent container.
- [Zoom With No Scale](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/scalemanager/view/zoom-with-no-scale.md): Demonstrates how to enlarge a low-resolution game canvas using the zoom property while keeping the scale mode disabled.

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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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