---
title: "Party Effects"
package: "@phaser-ae/vfx-party"
tier: Free
version: 3.0.0-4
released: 2026-10-14
updated: 2026-10-19
description: "Twelve ready-made 2D celebrations for reward moments, from confetti, bubbles and coins to three fireworks, streamers, balloons, hearts, a gem shower and a party popper."
url: https://phaser.io/packs/vfx-party
site: Phaser - https://phaser.io
---

# Party Effects

Twelve celebrations for the reward moments of a game. Bright, saturated and layered, they turn a level clear into an
occasion.

## What it does

Each effect layers a flash, a body, sparks and glitter, with colours that cool and fade over life. Paper flips and
flutters, coins show a bright face and a dark edge as they turn, and fireworks trail and crackle. Shapes with parts
ride together as sub-emitters: a balloon with its shine and string, a heart drawn from 44 dots, a gem with its facet.

Spawn one with `game.particles.effect(name, opts)`. All but `bubbles` are one-shots that remove themselves, so a
firework show is a rocket spawned every fraction of a second, each bursting in its own random colour. `scale` sizes
everything, so a firework at scale 2 climbs twice as high, and `angle` aims the popper, the confetti and the streamers;
the confetti still falls down whatever the angle.

## Features

- **Small rewards** — a `starBurst` and flipping gold `coins`.
- **The win** — a `confetti` cannon, twisting `streamers` and an aimed `partyPopper`.
- **The finale** — `fireworks` that burst in one of seven colours, a `fireworkRing` and a gold `fireworkWillow`.
- **Gentle moments** — `balloons` on strings and rising `hearts`.
- **The jackpot** — a `gemShower` of cut gems in six colours.
- **A loop** — soap `bubbles` that wobble up and pop.

## Good for

- **Mobile puzzle and casual games** — level clears, combos and daily rewards.
- **Score attack and arcade games** — a star burst on a high score, fireworks for a new record.
- **Shops and loot** — coins on a purchase, gems for a jackpot, a popper as a chest opens.
- **Social and dress-up games** — hearts for a like, balloons for a birthday.

## Make it yours

Choose by the size of the reward and fit it with `scale`. A match-3 throws a `starBurst` at the score on every combo
and fires `confetti` over the board at a level clear; an end-of-season show launches a `fireworks` rocket every 0.6
seconds from a random point along the bottom of a night sky. A copy of any effect can be retuned, such as a firework in
one colour or slower balloons.

## A quick look

Confetti over the board, a star burst at the score, a popper from the corner and bubbles from a diver:

```ts
game.particles.effect('confetti', { x: 320, y: 200, layer: 'fx' });
game.particles.effect('starBurst', { x: scoreX, y: scoreY, layer: 'fx', scale: 0.8 });
game.particles.effect('partyPopper', { x: 40, y: 340, layer: 'fx', angle: 40 });
const breath = game.particles.effect('bubbles', { follow: diver, offset: { x: 6, y: -10 } });
```

## Works with

- `particles-2d` and `particle-textures` — required; `core-2d` includes both.
- `audio` — a fanfare under the confetti.
- `feel` — a zoom punch on the reward.
- `vfx3d-party` — the same twelve names in 3D.

## Good to know

- The fireworks are the heaviest: a willow peaks near 1,050 live particles, so five at once is about 5,000.
- Sub-emitter children do not turn with `angle`, and stay where they were born when a followed object moves.
- Additive glows, such as the fireworks, fade on white backgrounds; paper, balloons, coins and gems read on any.

---

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