# Phaser: GameObjects

> Learn how to add GameObjects in Phaser inside the create function, drawing shapes with this.add.circle and text with this.add.text and its options.

Author: [Flavio Copes](https://flaviocopes.com/about/) | Published: 2021-04-16 | Topics: [Phaser](https://flaviocopes.com/tags/phaser/) | Canonical: https://flaviocopes.com/phaser-gameobjects/

> This post is part of a Phaser series. [Click here](https://flaviocopes.com/phaser-setup/) to see the first post of the series.

Inside the `create` function we can add GameObjects to the game.

For example we can draw shapes, like a circle:

```js
function create() {
  const circle = this.add.circle(100, 100, 90, 0xffffff)
}
```

This adds a white circle at position (100, 100), with a diameter of 90. Those numbers are expressed in pixels.

The `circle` variable contains a reference to the newly added circle.

`this` in the context of the function refers to the scene object.

Another example is `this.add.text()`, which adds text to the game:

```js
const text = this.add.text(130, 100, 'test')
```

You can customize how text looks, by passing a set of options:

```js
const text = this.add.text(50, 100, 'Test', {
  font: '20px Arial',
  fill: '#FFFFFF'
})
```

Any GameObject as a set of properties. For example we can access the x and y axis positions, in the 2D space, using `text.x` and `text.y`.