---
title: "Multiple Scenes From Instances"
description: "This example demonstrates how to create and add multiple Scene instances to a game configuration and launch one scene from another."
phaser: "4.1.0"
size: "800x600"
files: 1
url: https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/scenes/view/multiple-scenes-from-instances
site: Phaser - https://phaser.io
---

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# Multiple Scenes From Instances

This example demonstrates how to create and add multiple Scene instances to a game configuration and launch one scene from another.

A Phaser 4.1.0 example in [Scenes](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/scenes.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/scenes/view/multiple-scenes-from-instances.

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

### multiple scenes from instances.js

```js
const demo = new Phaser.Scene('Demo');
demo.preload = function () {
    this.load.setBaseURL('https://cdn.phaserfiles.com/v410');

    this.load.image('face', 'assets/pics/bw-face.png');

};
demo.create = function () {

    console.log(this.sys.settings.key, 'is alive');

    this.add.image(400, 300, 'face');

    this.scene.launch('Test');

};

const test = new Phaser.Scene('Test');
test.preload = function () {
    this.load.setBaseURL('https://cdn.phaserfiles.com/v410');

    this.load.image('barbarian', 'assets/pics/barbarian-loading.png');

};
test.create = function () {

    console.log(this.sys.settings.key, 'is alive');

    this.add.image(400, 300, 'barbarian').setScale(0.5);
}

const config = {
    scale: { mode: Phaser.Scale.FIT },
    type: Phaser.CANVAS,
    parent: 'game-container',
    width: 800,
    height: 600,
    scene: [ demo, test ]
};

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

## More in Scenes

- [Add Scene After Game Instance](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/scenes/view/add-scene-after-game.md): Demonstrates how to dynamically add and start a Scene to a Phaser Game instance after it has been initialized, including passing data to the Scene's create method.
- [Add Scene From Another Scene](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/scenes/view/add-scene-from-another-scene.md): Demonstrates how to dynamically add a new Scene to the Scene Manager and start it immediately while passing custom data to its create method.
- [Adding and Starting Scenes Manually](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/scenes/view/scene-add-manual-start.md): Demonstrates how to add a scene to the Scene Manager and start it manually using the game instance API instead of the game configuration object.
- [Boot Data](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/scenes/view/boot-data.md): Demonstrates how to pass a data object when starting a scene and access it within the init, preload, and create methods for dynamic asset loading and positioning.
- [Bring Scene to Top](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/scenes/view/bring-to-top.md): Demonstrates how to move a specific Scene to the top of the Scene list so it renders above all other active Scenes.
- [Call Function In Another Scene](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/scenes/view/call-function-in-another-scene.md): Demonstrates how to access a specific Scene instance via the Scene Manager to call its public methods and retrieve data from a different active Scene.
- [Call Function in Another Scene](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/scenes/view/call-function-in-another-scene-es6.md): Demonstrates how to obtain a reference to another scene via the Scene Manager and call its custom methods.
- [Change Scene From Create](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/scenes/view/change-scene-from-create.md): Demonstrates how to transition between multiple scenes immediately by calling scene.start within the create method.
- [Change Scene From Create Method](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/scenes/view/change-scene-from-create-es6.md): Demonstrates how to chain scene transitions by calling scene.start within the create method of multiple ES6 Scene classes.
- [Changing Large Scenes](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/scenes/view/changing-large-scene.md): Learn how to switch between different scenes that contain a large number of Game Objects.
- [Changing Scenes](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/scenes/view/changing-scene.md): Demonstrates how to transition between multiple Scene classes using the Scene Manager's start method.
- [Drag Scenes Demo](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/scenes/view/drag-scenes-demo.md): This demo demonstrates a multi-window desktop interface where each window is a separate, independent Scene. It shows how to use draggable Zones to move Scenes by dynamically updating their camera viewports and how to manage Scene depth using bringToTop.
- [All 52 examples in Scenes](https://phaser.io/oss/examples/v4.1.0/scenes.md)

---

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