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title: "Facebook Instant Games Leaderboards"
subtitle: "Part 7 - Conclusion"
date: 2018-11-06T00:00:00.000Z
url: https://phaser.io/tutorials/facebook-instant-games-leaderboards/part7
site: Phaser - https://phaser.io
copyright: © 2026 Phaser Studio Inc. All rights reserved.
---

> 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.

# Facebook Instant Games Leaderboards

*Part 7 - Conclusion*

In this tutorial we have covered how to create a Facebook Instant Games leaderboard, what all the different score formats mean and their respective limitations, how to save a score, with optional score data, and how to retrieve them.

If you worked through the optional extra Retro Highscore Table tutorial, as well, then you've even got a fully working modern-retro input system to use in your games too.

For further reading on the subject, please see the official [Facebook Leaderboard API Documentation](https://developers.facebook.com/docs/games/instant-games/guides/using-leaderboards).

Leaderboards are a great way to maintain user engagement in your games. If you come up with an interesting way of displaying a leaderboard, or making use of the score data bundles, then please let us know - we'd love to see what you've been creating!

Now got Leaderboards working, why not learn about [how to display adverts](/tutorials/facebook-instant-games-ads) in your game?

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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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