Input: Keyboard, Mouse, Touch, and Gamepad

Phaser provides a unified input system accessed via this.input in any Scene. It supports keyboard polling and events, mouse/pointer interaction with Game Objects (click, hover, drag), multi-touch, mouse wheel, and gamepad input. Input can be handled through event listeners or by polling state each frame.

Key source paths: src/input/InputPlugin.js, src/input/Pointer.js, src/input/keyboard/KeyboardPlugin.js, src/input/keyboard/keys/Key.js, src/input/keyboard/keys/KeyCodes.js, src/input/keyboard/combo/KeyCombo.js, src/input/gamepad/GamepadPlugin.js, src/input/gamepad/Gamepad.js, src/input/events/, src/input/keyboard/events/ Related skills: ../sprites-and-images/SKILL.md, ../events-system/SKILL.md, ../scenes/SKILL.md

Quick Start (basic keyboard + pointer input)

class MyScene extends Phaser.Scene {
    create() {
        // Keyboard: create cursor keys (up, down, left, right, space, shift)
        this.cursors = this.input.keyboard.createCursorKeys();

        // Keyboard: listen for a specific key event
        this.input.keyboard.on('keydown-SPACE', (event) => {
            console.log('Space pressed');
        });