--- title: "Undo, redo and replay: Phaser AE API 3.0.0-2" package: "@phaser-ae/kernel" version: 3.0.0-2 released: 2026-10-19 updated: 2026-10-20 description: "`createHistory`: undo, redo, seek and replay for deterministic rules, with refusals, checkpoints and validated saves" url: https://phaser.io/kernel/docs/3.0.0-2/history site: Phaser - https://phaser.io --- # Undo, redo and replay `createHistory`: undo, redo, seek and replay for deterministic rules, with refusals, checkpoints and validated saves. Kernel 3.0.0-2, from `engine/kernel/src/history.ts`. ## Constants ### `createHistory` ```ts const createHistory: CreateHistory ``` *From* `@phaser-ae/kernel` Make a history over deterministic rules. See {@link HistorySpec}. ## Types ### `Applied` ```ts type Applied = { readonly ok: true; readonly result: R } | Refusal ``` *From* `@phaser-ae/kernel` What a history reports for a move: accepted with whatever the rules returned, or refused. ### `CreateHistory` ```ts type CreateHistory = (spec: HistorySpec) => History ``` *From* `@phaser-ae/kernel` Make a history over deterministic rules. See {@link HistorySpec}. ### `History` ```ts interface History ``` *From* `@phaser-ae/kernel` A run of play that can be wound back and forth, saved and restored. - `readonly state: S` — The state as it now stands, after `index` moves. The live object: read it, and change it only through `apply`. - `readonly seed: number` — The seed this run started from. - `readonly moves: ReadonlyArray` — The moves recorded, oldest first. Includes any ahead of `index` that a redo would reach. - `readonly index: number` — How many moves of `moves` have been applied: the playhead. - `readonly canUndo: boolean` — Is there anything to undo? - `readonly canRedo: boolean` — Is there anything to redo? - `apply(move: M): Applied` — Apply a move and record it. Anything undone and not yet redone is discarded first, because play has branched. A refused move changes nothing and is not recorded. - `undo(): boolean` — Wind back one move. False when there was nothing to undo. - `redo(): Applied` — Wind forward one undone move and report what the rules returned. Refused when there is nothing to redo. - `seek(index: number): void` — Wind to exactly `index` moves played, forwards or backwards. Clamped to the recorded range. - `reset(seed?: number): void` — Start again on a fresh state, from a new seed or the same one, with no moves. - `snapshot(): HistorySave` — The run as a save. See {@link HistorySave}. - `restore(save: HistorySave | string): Applied` — Replace this run with a save, or its JSON text. The save is replayed into a fresh state first and checked; if it is not a history, a move is refused, or the fingerprint differs, this run is left exactly as it was. ### `HistorySave` ```ts interface HistorySave ``` *From* `@phaser-ae/kernel` A history as a save: plain JSON, safe to store, share or put in a bug report. - `readonly format: 'phaser-ae-history'` — Always 'phaser-ae-history'. - `readonly version: 1` — Always 1. - `readonly seed: number` — The seed the run started from. - `readonly moves: ReadonlyArray` — Every recorded move, oldest first, including any a redo would reach. - `readonly index: number` — How many of `moves` were applied: where the playhead was. - `readonly fingerprint?: string` — The state's fingerprint at `index`, when the spec has `fingerprint`. ### `HistorySpec` ```ts interface HistorySpec ``` *From* `@phaser-ae/kernel` How to build a run of play from nothing and push it forward one move. - `create(seed: number): S` — A fresh state from a seed. It must be pure in the seed: the same seed gives the same state every time, or undo lands somewhere the player has never been. Use `createRng(seed)` for any chance inside it. - `apply(state: S, move: M): R | Refusal` — Apply one move to `state`, in place. Return anything to accept it: the value comes back from `apply` and `redo` (a presenter animates from it). Return a {@link Refusal}, `{ ok: false, reason }`, to refuse it, and leave the state unchanged. An exception is a refusal too, with its message as the reason. - `seed?: number` — The seed to start from. Default 0. Take it from `game.rng` (`game.rng.int(0, 0xffffffff)`) so a game replays. - `checkpointEvery?: number` — Keep a copy of the state every this many moves, so undo and seek replay from the nearest copy instead of from the start. Default 0: never, which suits rules that replay in microseconds. Copies are made with `clone`. - `clone?(state: S): S` — Copy a state, for checkpoints. Default `structuredClone`, which cannot copy functions or class methods. - `limit?: number` — The most moves to record. Past it a move is refused (`history: limit reached`) rather than an old one dropped, because dropping one would leave undo unable to rebuild the state. Default unlimited. - `merge?(previous: M, next: M): M | undefined` — Fold a move into the one before it, so they undo as one: return the combined move, or undefined to record them apart. Asked only after the new move was accepted, and only when it would be recorded straight after `previous`. The classic use is time: two `{ kind: 'advance', seconds }` moves in a row become one, provided the rules step a fixed timestep so that advancing a then b lands where advancing a + b does. - `fingerprint?(state: S): string` — A short fingerprint of a state, such as a hash of its JSON. When given, a save carries the fingerprint of the state it ends in, and `restore` refuses a save whose replay ends anywhere else: a check that the rules really are deterministic and the save was not edited. - `onChange?(history: History): void` — Called after anything changes the state or the moves: an apply, undo, redo, seek, reset or restore. ### `Refusal` ```ts interface Refusal ``` *From* `@phaser-ae/kernel` A move the rules refused. Nothing is recorded, and the rules must leave the state exactly as it was. - `readonly ok: false` — Always false. - `readonly reason: string` — Why, in words a player could be shown. --- ## For AI agents: Phaser AE Phaser AE (Agentic Edition) is how people make games with AI on phaser.io. 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