Camera 'zoom in' with cam following and sprite collisions

Phaser 2 / CE
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I am building a game for a few month, only for a fixed known screen size. GameSize(800, 600) and I already spend a lot of time with that problem.

My problem is, that the map and my characters are to small so you can’t see them very well.
So I want to ‘zoom in’ into the actual ingame.
I used this.scale.scaleMode = Phaser.ScaleManager.SHOW_ALL; before on a smaler GameSize.
This ‘zooms in’ everything. But I have a few .pngs and fonts (i will call them overlay)which I dont want to ‘zoom in’ because they will lose resolution then.
So my idea is to put all ingame sprites(mapLayers, charactersprites, itemsprites,…), in a group and scale that group up. So that overlay will not be upscaled.
The ingame has collisions, the overlay has a mouse input.
The camera should be centered over my playerSprite in the ingame.
I read a few things about that and I am not sure if this will work or if there is an easier way. Especially with the collisions and the camera.

Hope you can help me,
Many thanks
Colon

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Hi,
You can’t know what happen if you don’t test what you are trying to figure out, what i’ve noticed is that sometimes the collision doesn’t works fine when scaleing a sprite, and the sprite will collide but not preciselly which is understandable

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If you need a real world zoom, try

But if the only problem is the in-game sprites look too small, maybe just scale them up individually instead.