---
title: "Scenes: Phaser AE API 3.0.0-1"
package: "@phaser-ae/kernel"
version: 3.0.0-1
released: 2026-10-14
updated: 2026-10-17
description: "the scene stack: `go`, `push`, `pop`, and suspension beneath a push"
url: https://phaser.io/kernel/docs/3.0.0-1/scene
site: Phaser - https://phaser.io
---

# Scenes

the scene stack: `go`, `push`, `pop`, and suspension beneath a push. Kernel 3.0.0-1, from `engine/kernel/src/scene.ts`.

## Types

### `SceneDef`

```ts
interface SceneDef
```

*From* `@phaser-ae/kernel`

A scene: a name and what happens on the way in and out. Scenes are a kernel service because ownership hangs off
them: every object, timer, `game.step`, `game.frame` and `own` disposer belongs to the scene that was current when
it was made, and goes when that scene exits.

- `readonly name: string` — Unique; registering the same name twice throws.
- `enter?(): void` — Runs after the `scene.enter` hook, with this scene current: what it spawns, schedules and steps is this scene's.
- `exit?(): void` — Runs first when the scene leaves, before the `scene.exit` hook, while the scene's objects still exist.

### `Scenes`

```ts
interface Scenes
```

*From* `@phaser-ae/kernel`

The scene stack, bottom to top. Every name must be registered before `go` or `push`; unknown names throw.

- `register(def: SceneDef): void` — Define a scene. Throws if the name is taken.
- `has(name: string): boolean` — Is a scene registered under this name? For a pack that wants to supply a default only when the game has not.
- `go(name: string): void` — Exit the entire stack, top first, and enter the destination: everything the exited scenes made goes with them. Going to the current scene restarts it. Use push/pop for overlays.
- `push(name: string, opts?: { transparent?: boolean; suspend?: boolean }): void` — Push a scene over the current one. By default the scenes beneath are SUSPENDED: their objects stay on stage and keep rendering, frozen — out of every query, their anims and timers and `game.step`s held — until `pop()`. This is the game-level pause (a pause menu, a shop, a dialogue). `suspend: false` runs them in parallel (a HUD). `transparent: false` also hides the scenes beneath. A scene already on the stack cannot be pushed again: it throws.
- `isSuspended(name: string): boolean` — Is this scene currently suspended beneath another?
- `pop(): void` — Leave the top scene and resume what it suspended. The scene beneath is current again: objects, timers and steps made after `pop` belong to it. No-op when only one scene is on the stack.
- `readonly current: string` — The top of the stack; '' before the first `go`.
- `readonly stack: ReadonlyArray<string>` — Bottom to top.

---

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