---
title: "Making your first Phaser 3 game"
subtitle: "Part 9 - A score to settle"
date: 2018-02-20T00:00:00.000Z
url: https://phaser.io/tutorials/making-your-first-phaser-3-game/part9
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.

# Making your first Phaser 3 game

*Part 9 - A score to settle*

There are two final touches we're going to add to our game: an enemy to avoid that can kill the player, and a score when you collect the stars. First, the score.

To do this we'll make use of a Text Game Object. Here we create two new variables, one to hold the actual score and the text object itself:

```
var score = 0;
var scoreText;
```

The `scoreText` is set-up in the `create` function:

`scoreText = this.add.text(16, 16, 'score: 0', { fontSize: '32px', fill: '#000' });`

16 x 16 is the coordinate to display the text at. 'score: 0' is the default string to display and the object that follows contains a font size and fill color. By not specifying which font we'll actually use the Phaser default, which is Courier.

Next we need to modify the `collectStar` function so that when the player picks-up a star their score increases and the text is updated to reflect this:

```
function collectStar (player, star)
{
    star.disableBody(true, true);

    score += 10;
    scoreText.setText('Score: ' + score);
}
```

So 10 points are added for every star and the `scoreText` is updated to show this new total. If you run `part9.html` you will see the stars fall and the score increase as you collect them.

![image](part9.png)

In the final part we'll add some baddies.

---

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