--- title: "Bubble shooter: API" package: "@phaser-ae/bubbleshooter" tier: Pro version: 3.0.0-4 released: 2026-10-14 updated: 2026-10-20 description: "Bubble-shooter rules from the shot to a whole arcade session, with bank shots, a hanging hex grid, pops and drops, a pressing ceiling, timers, scoring and rounds." url: https://phaser.io/packs/bubbleshooter/api site: Phaser - https://phaser.io --- # Bubble shooter: API `@phaser-ae/bubbleshooter` — Aim, bank off walls, snap into a hex grid, pop three and drop what is cut loose; press, hurry timer and arcade scoring, as in Puzzle Bobble and its sequel. ## The pack ### `bubbleshooter` ```ts function bubbleshooter(): Pack<{ bubbleshooter: BubbleshooterApi }> ``` The `bubbleshooter` pack. Pure logic, so it needs no backend and runs headless. ## Helpers ### `BUBBLE_DIFFICULTY` ```ts const BUBBLE_DIFFICULTY: Readonly> ``` Easy and Normal show the guide line and slow the press; Arcade is the original (guide only after a continue). ### `bubbleDifficulty` ```ts function bubbleDifficulty(name: BubbleDifficultyName = 'normal'): BubbleDifficulty ``` The difficulty table entry for a name. ### `ceilingInterval` ```ts function ceilingInterval(c: CeilingConfig, live: number): number ``` Shots between ceiling drops for `live` colours on the board. ### `createBubbleField` ```ts function createBubbleField(cfg: ShooterConfig): BubbleField ``` Creates a `BubbleField` from the given configuration. ### `createBubbleGame` ```ts function createBubbleGame(config: BubbleGameConfig): BubbleGame ``` Creates a session. ### `DEFAULT_LEGEND` ```ts const DEFAULT_LEGEND: Readonly> ``` The default layout legend. Colours follow Puzzle Bobble's eight, in the order the pack numbers them: B blue, Y yellow, R red, G green, P purple, O orange, K black, W white; digits 0-9 are colour indices too. `#` clear (uncoloured) bubble, `*` star, `X` stone; `.`, `_` and `-` are empty. ### `dropScore` ```ts function dropScore(n: number, base = 10, cap = 17): number ``` Puzzle Bobble's dropped-bubble bonus: 10 x 2^n for n bubbles dropped by one shot, n capped at `cap` (17). ### `exportRounds` ```ts function exportRounds(rounds: readonly BubbleRound[]): string ``` Export rounds in the `importRounds` format. ### `importRounds` ```ts function importRounds(text: string): BubbleRound[] ``` Import rounds from text. Rounds are separated by blank lines; a line starting with `=` names the round and may carry `cols=N` for a wide board ("= Big one cols=17"). Other lines are layout rows (see `parseLayout`): colour letters BYRGPOKW or digits, `#` clear, `*` star, `X` stone, `.` empty; spaces are ignored. ### `parseLayout` ```ts function parseLayout(rows: readonly string[], legend: Readonly> = DEFAULT_LEGEND): [number, number, LegendEntry][] ``` Parse a layout: one string per row from the ceiling; whitespace is ignored, so rows may be written with the half-bubble indent of the screen. Returns [col, row, entry] for every occupied cell. Throws on unknown characters, naming the row and the character. ### `PUZZLE_BOBBLE_2_BOARDS` ```ts const PUZZLE_BOBBLE_2_BOARDS: Readonly> ``` Puzzle Bobble 2 (Taito, 1995): the 135 boards of the alphabet tree, keyed by stage and round ("A-01"). Shapes, stones (X), uncoloured bubbles (#), stars (*) and colour counts from the level-map FAQ; colours authored. Wide boards are 17 bubbles across. ### `PUZZLE_BOBBLE_2_TIME_BONUS` ```ts const PUZZLE_BOBBLE_2_TIME_BONUS: TimeBonusConfig ``` Puzzle Bobble 2's: 500,000 within 5 s, falling linearly (about 11,850 a second, timed finer than a second), none from 48 s. The slope is fitted to the FAQ's sample table. ### `PUZZLE_BOBBLE_2_TREE` ```ts const PUZZLE_BOBBLE_2_TREE: readonly (readonly string[])[] ``` Puzzle Bobble 2's alphabet tree: two choices after every five rounds, six stages, seven endings. ### `PUZZLE_BOBBLE_CEILING` ```ts const PUZZLE_BOBBLE_CEILING: CeilingConfig ``` The press: with all eight colours on the board it comes down every `baseShots` shots, one shot sooner per missing colour (FAQ). The base of 12 is an estimate that gives round 1 (four colours) a drop every eight shots. ### `PUZZLE_BOBBLE_COLOURS` ```ts const PUZZLE_BOBBLE_COLOURS: readonly { letter: string; name: string; monster: string }[] ``` Puzzle Bobble's eight bubble colours in pack order, with the Bubble Bobble monster inside each. ### `PUZZLE_BOBBLE_HURRY` ```ts const PUZZLE_BOBBLE_HURRY: HurryConfig ``` About ten seconds to fire, with a countdown for the last five (FAQ). ### `PUZZLE_BOBBLE_LAUNCHER` ```ts const PUZZLE_BOBBLE_LAUNCHER: LauncherConfig ``` The arcade launcher. Tilt range, turn speed, shot speed and reload are estimates from footage-era play. ### `PUZZLE_BOBBLE_ROUNDS` ```ts const PUZZLE_BOBBLE_ROUNDS: readonly (readonly string[])[] ``` Puzzle Bobble (Taito, 1994): the 30 rounds of the one-player game. Shapes and colour counts from the arcade FAQ's round diagrams; colours of rounds 1, 3 and 4 from arcade screenshots, the rest authored. ### `PUZZLE_BOBBLE_TIME_BONUS` ```ts const PUZZLE_BOBBLE_TIME_BONUS: TimeBonusConfig ``` Puzzle Bobble's round-clear bonus: 50,000 within 5 s, 840 less each further whole second, none from 65 s. ### `puzzleBobble2Preset` ```ts function puzzleBobble2Preset(opts: BubblePresetOptions = {}): BubbleGameConfig ``` Puzzle Bobble 2 (Taito, 1995): the alphabet-tree route (choose a stage after every five rounds), stone blocks, uncoloured bubbles that only drop, stars that clear a colour, wide 17-bubble boards, and the 500,000 time bonus. Same launcher, hurry and press as the first game (FAQ: "screen drop method is the same"). ### `puzzleBobblePreset` ```ts function puzzleBobblePreset(opts: BubblePresetOptions = {}): BubbleGameConfig ``` Puzzle Bobble (Taito, 1994): 8 x 11 field above the line, 30 rounds, the arcade's scoring and timers. ### `pyramidRoute` ```ts function pyramidRoute(tiers: readonly (readonly string[])[], roundsPerStage: number, boards: Readonly>): { rounds: BubbleRound[]; route: BubbleRoute; widths: Record } ``` Build a route from a pyramid of stage ids: stage i of a tier leads to stages i and i+1 of the next tier. Each stage's rounds are looked up as `${id}-${nn}` in `boards`, numbered on from the tier's first round. ### `timeBonus` ```ts function timeBonus(cfg: TimeBonusConfig | null, seconds: number): number ``` Puzzle Bobble's time bonus formula from a config. ## Classes ### `BubbleField` ```ts class BubbleField ``` An offset-hex bubble field hanging from a ceiling. Create one with `createBubbleField`. - `readonly cols: number` — Bubbles in a full row. - `readonly rows: number` — Rows that fit above the dead line before any press. - `readonly colors: number` — Palette size for random draws. - `readonly radius: number` — The bubble radius, in world units. - `readonly rowHeight: number` — Distance between row centres. - `readonly oddRows: 'short' | 'full'` — Shifted-row policy. - `readonly hitScale: number` — Contact distance as a fraction of a bubble's diameter. - `readonly popMin: number` — Smallest group that pops. - `score: number` — Legacy: score gained by `shoot` so far. - `shots: number` — Legacy: shots fired by `shoot` that hit the field. - `topOut: boolean` — Legacy: true once `shoot` has left a bubble over the line. - `constructor(cfg: ShooterConfig)` - `shifted(y: number): boolean` — True when row `y` is drawn half a bubble to the right. - `rowWidth(y: number): number` — Cells in row `y`. - `inBounds(x: number, y: number): boolean` — True when (x, y) is a cell of the grid (it may be empty). - `get press(): number` — Ceiling presses so far. - `get ceilingY(): number` — The world y of the ceiling (moves down a row per press). - `get lineRow(): number` — The first row index that lies over the dead line. - `get width(): number` — Field width in world units. - `get lineY(): number` — World y of the dead line (fixed: the ceiling comes down to meet it). - `get height(): number` — Legacy alias: the playfield height from the unpressed ceiling to the dead line. - `get launcher(): Vec` — Where the launcher sits: centred, just below the line. - `centre(x: number, y: number): Vec` — World centre of a cell (includes the press). - `at(x: number, y: number): Cell | null` — The cell at (x, y), or null when empty or outside. - `bubble(x: number, y: number): number | null` — Legacy: the colour at a cell (-1 for uncoloured kinds), or null when the cell is empty or outside. - `allocateId(): number` — Reserve a fresh cell id (a session gives its flying shot the id the bubble will keep when it lands). - `cells(): CellView[]` — Every occupied cell with its position, row by row. - `load(rows: readonly string[], legend: Readonly> = DEFAULT_LEGEND): void` — Replace the contents with a layout (see `parseLayout`); the press and parity reset, ids carry on (never reused). - `set(x: number, y: number, kind: CellKind | null, color = 0): Cell | null` — Set or clear one cell directly (editors, tests, garbage). Returns the new cell. - `neighbours(x: number, y: number): XY[]` — Hex neighbours of (x, y): six, offset-aware. - `liveColors(): number[]` — Colours of the coloured bubbles still in play. Sorted, so draws from it are deterministic. - `remaining(): number` — Cells still to clear (everything except stones). - `get won(): boolean` — True when nothing but stones is left. - `crossed(): boolean` — True when a non-stone cell lies over the dead line. - `lowestRow(): number` — The lowest occupied non-stone row, or -1 when empty: how close the field is to the line. - `trace(tilt: number, from?: Vec, maxBounces = 64): TraceResult` — Trace a shot from `from` (default the launcher) at `tilt` radians from straight up (positive to the right, i.e. clockwise), reflecting off the side walls, until it touches a bubble or the ceiling. The shot is a circle: contact is exact (ray against circle), not a stepped walk. - `place(x: number, y: number, color: number, kind: CellKind = 'bubble', id?: number): Resolution` — Put a shot into cell (x, y) and resolve it: a star it touches clears its colour; otherwise a same-colour group of `popMin` or more pops; then everything no longer hanging from the ceiling or a stone drops. - `dropOrphans(): CellView[]` — Remove everything not connected to row 0 or to a stone; returns what fell. - `pressDown(): boolean` — Lower the ceiling one row (Puzzle Bobble's press): every cell moves down with it. Returns `crossed()`. - `pushRow(colors: readonly (number | null)[]): boolean` — Push a new row in from the top (rising-row modes): every row moves down one, parity flips, and row 0 is filled from `colors` (one entry per cell; null leaves a gap). Returns `crossed()`. - `snapshot(): FieldSnapshot` — A plain-data snapshot. - `restore(s: FieldSnapshot): void` — Restore a snapshot taken from a field with the same geometry. - `aim(tilt: number, launcher?: Vec): { path: Vec[]; hit: XY | null }` — Legacy: `trace` from the launcher (or `launcher`), returning only the path and the snap cell. - `shoot(tilt: number, color?: number): ShotResult` — Legacy: fire a bubble of `color` (or a live colour) at `tilt` and resolve it instantly, scoring with the Puzzle Bobble table. A session (`BubbleGame`) is the timed, rule-complete alternative. - `findShots(samples = 60, colors?: readonly number[], range = 1.3): { angle: number; color: number; pops: number; drops: number; score: number; hit: XY }[]` — Candidate shots scored by pops and drops, best first: a hint, and the brain of the bundled bots. Tilts are sampled evenly across `range` (default ±1.3 rad). Coloured candidates use `colors` (default the live colours). Never mutates the field. - `autoplay(maxShots = 300): ShotResult[]` — Legacy: play best shots (scoring ones only) until cleared, crossed or stuck. - `debugGrid(): string` — The field as text, one line per row (shifted rows indented): colour digits, `#` clear, `*` star, `X` stone. ### `BubbleGame` ```ts class BubbleGame ``` A whole bubble-shooter session. Create one with `createBubbleGame`. - `config: BubbleGameConfig` — The configuration (rules may be edited between rounds through `configure`). - `field: BubbleField` — The field of the current round. - `constructor(config: BubbleGameConfig)` - `turn(dir: number): void` — Hold a turn direction: -1 left, 1 right, 0 none. Also moves the route highlight. - `setTilt(tilt: number): void` — Set the tilt directly (pointer aiming), clamped to the launcher's range. - `aimAt(x: number, y: number): void` — Aim at a world point (pointer aiming). Points below the launcher aim at the nearest limit. - `centre(): void` — Point straight up. - `suggest(samples = 80): { tilt: number; pops: number; drops: number } | null` — The best tilt for the loaded bubble (most drops, then most pops, then the best place to leave it), or null when nothing is loaded: an aim hint and the brain of an attract-mode or CPU player. - `fire(): void` — Fire the loaded bubble (ignored while nothing is loaded); confirms the route choice; continues. - `chooseRoute(index: number): void` — Choose a route stage by index of the offered choices. - `continueGame(): void` — Take a continue during the countdown. - `goToRound(n: number): void` — Jump to a 1-based round (debug, level select). Without a route only. - `skipRound(): void` — Leave the current round unscored and go on as if it had been cleared (route rounds follow the route; a finished stage offers the next choice). For level select, practice and tests. - `configure(patch: Partial>): void` — Replace rule tables in a running session (launcher, hurry, ceiling, scoring, time bonus, guide). - `tick(dt: number): BubbleState` — Advance by `dt` seconds in fixed 1/120 s steps. Returns the state. - `drain(): BubbleEvent[]` — Events since the last drain. - `get state(): BubbleState` — The current state (rebuilt lazily after each tick). - `snapshot(): BubbleSnapshot` — A plain-data snapshot. - `restore(snap: BubbleSnapshot): void` — Restore a snapshot taken from a session with the same configuration. ## Types ### `BubbleDifficulty` ```ts interface BubbleDifficulty ``` Difficulty adjustments over the arcade numbers. - `ceilingShots: number` — Shots added to the ceiling interval. - `hurryScale: number` — Multiplier on the hurry timer. - `guide: BubbleGameConfig['guide']` — When the guide line shows. ### `BubbleDifficultyName` ```ts type BubbleDifficultyName = 'easy' | 'normal' | 'arcade' ``` Difficulty presets: `arcade` is the original's numbers; the others relax them. ### `BubbleEvent` ```ts type BubbleEvent = | { kind: 'round'; round: number; name: string; stage: string | null } | { kind: 'go' } | { kind: 'load'; color: number; next: number } | { kind: 'fire'; id: number; color: number; tilt: number; auto: boolean } | { kind: 'bounce'; x: number; y: number } | { kind: 'stick'; id: number; col: number; row: number; x: number; y: number } | { kind: 'pop'; cells: CellView[]; star: boolean } | { kind: 'drop'; cells: CellView[] } | { kind: 'score'; value: number; x: number; y: number; reason: 'pop' | 'drop' | 'time' } | { kind: 'warn'; shotsLeft: number } | { kind: 'press'; mode: 'press' | 'push' } | { kind: 'hurry'; secondsLeft: number } | { kind: 'clear'; time: number; bonus: number } | { kind: 'lost' } | { kind: 'continue'; left: number } | { kind: 'over' } | { kind: 'route'; choices: string[] } | { kind: 'complete' } ``` What the session reports through `drain()`. ### `BubbleFieldConfig` ```ts interface BubbleFieldConfig ``` Field geometry for every round (see `ShooterConfig` for each option's meaning). - `cols: number` — Bubbles in a full row. - `rows: number` — Rows above the dead line. - `radius: number` — Bubble radius in world units. - `rowHeight?: number` — Distance between row centres. - `hitScale?: number` — Contact distance as a fraction of a diameter. - `oddRows?: 'short' | 'full'` — Shifted-row policy. - `popMin?: number` — Smallest same-colour group that pops. - `lineGap?: number` — Space between the lowest legal row and the dead line. - `launcherDrop?: number` — Launcher centre below the line. ### `BubbleGameConfig` ```ts interface BubbleGameConfig ``` Everything a session needs. Presets build one (`puzzleBobblePreset`, `puzzleBobble2Preset`). - `name?: string` — Display name of the ruleset. - `field: BubbleFieldConfig` — Field geometry. - `palette: number` — Colours in the palette (0 .. palette-1). - `rounds: BubbleRound[]` — The rounds, in order (or referenced by `route`). - `route?: BubbleRoute` — A branching route over `rounds`; without one the rounds are played in order. - `startRound?: number` — 1-based round to start from (ignored with a route). Default 1. - `loop?: boolean` — After the last round, start again from the first instead of finishing. Default false. - `legend?: Readonly>` — Layout characters. Default `DEFAULT_LEGEND`. - `launcher: LauncherConfig` — The launcher. - `hurry: HurryConfig | null` — The idle timer, or null for none. - `ceiling: CeilingConfig` — The ceiling. - `scoring: ScoringConfig` — Points. - `timeBonus: TimeBonusConfig | null` — The time bonus, or null for none. - `guide: 'always' | 'continue' | 'never'` — When the aim guide (the traced path) is shown: always, only for the round after a continue, or never. - `continues: number` — Continues allowed (-1 for unlimited). - `continueScore: 'reset' | 'keep'` — A continue restarts the round with the score reset (Puzzle Bobble) or kept. - `rerollCleared?: boolean` — Re-deal a loaded or next bubble whose colour has just left the board. Default true. - `timings: BubbleTimings` — Phase timings. - `seed?: number` — Seed for the colour deal. - `difficulty?: BubbleDifficultyName` — The difficulty the config was built for (informational). ### `BubblePresetOptions` ```ts interface BubblePresetOptions ``` Options shared by the presets. - `difficulty?: BubbleDifficultyName` — Easy, Normal (default) or Arcade. - `startRound?: number` — 1-based start round (Puzzle Bobble only). - `seed?: number` — Seed for the colour deal. - `rounds?: BubbleRound[]` — Replace the rounds (e.g. from `importRounds`). - `continues?: number` — Continues (-1 unlimited, the default: a continue is a coin). ### `BubbleRound` ```ts interface BubbleRound ``` One authored round: a layout and, optionally, its own width. - `name?: string` — Display name (e.g. "ROUND 1", "A-3"). Default "ROUND n". - `layout: readonly string[]` — Layout rows from the ceiling (see `parseLayout`). - `cols?: number` — Bubbles in a full row for this round (Puzzle Bobble 2's wide boards use 17). Default `field.cols`. ### `BubbleRoute` ```ts interface BubbleRoute ``` A branching route: the player picks a stage at the start and after each stage. - `start: string[]` — The stage ids offered at the start. - `stages: RouteStage[]` — Every stage. ### `BubbleshooterApi` ```ts type BubbleshooterApi = typeof kit ``` `game.bubbleshooter` — every function and type this pack carries, as one namespace. ### `BubbleSnapshot` ```ts interface BubbleSnapshot ``` A plain-data snapshot of a session. - `s: Record` — Session scalars. - `field: FieldSnapshot` — The field. - `cols: number` — Field columns (rounds may change width). - `rng: RngState` — Where the seeded stream stands (a kernel `Rng` snapshot). ### `BubbleState` ```ts interface BubbleState ``` The read-only session state, rebuilt after each tick. - `status: BubbleStatus` — Phase. - `statusTime: number` — Seconds in this phase. - `round: number` — Rounds played in this run, 1-based (the number on screen). - `roundIndex: number` — Index into `rounds` of the round on the field. - `roundName: string` — The round's name. - `stage: string | null` — Route stage id, or null without a route. - `score: number` — Score. - `continuesUsed: number` — Continues used. - `width: number` — Field width (world units) for this round. - `cols: number` — Columns for this round. - `rows: number` — Rows above the line. - `radius: number` — Bubble radius. - `ceilingY: number` — World y of the ceiling (animated during a press). - `lineY: number` — World y of the dead line. - `bubbles: BubbleView[]` — Every bubble on the field. - `shot: { id: number; color: number; x: number; y: number } | null` — The flying shot, or null. - `launcher: { x: number; y: number; tilt: number; maxTilt: number }` — Launcher centre and tilt (radians from straight up, positive to the right). - `current: number | null` — Colour in the launcher, or null while reloading. - `next: number | null` — Colour waiting in the bag. - `loaded: number` — 0 while the next bubble is being loaded, rising to 1 when it can fire. - `shots: number` — Shots fired this round. - `shotsToDrop: number` — Shots left before the ceiling comes down (Infinity when it never does). - `shake: number` — 0 still, 1 shaking, 2 shaking hard: the warning before a drop. - `hurry: number | null` — Seconds left on the HURRY UP countdown, or null when it is not showing. - `roundTime: number` — Seconds since the round started. - `guide: Vec[] | null` — The guide path when shown. - `lastBonus: number` — The bonus paid at the last clear. - `lastClearTime: number` — The time of the last clear. - `route: { choices: string[]; selected: number } | null` — Route choices while choosing, with the highlighted index. - `continueLeft: number` — Seconds left on the continue countdown. - `danger: number` — How full the field is: lowest occupied row / rows above the line (0..1); presenters speed music with it. ### `BubbleStatus` ```ts type BubbleStatus = 'route' | 'ready' | 'playing' | 'clear' | 'lost' | 'continue' | 'over' | 'complete' ``` Session phase. ### `BubbleTimings` ```ts interface BubbleTimings ``` Banner and phase timings, seconds. - `ready: number` — Round banner and READY before play starts. - `clear: number` — CLEAR banner and bonus before the next round. - `lost: number` — Lost animation before the continue countdown. - `continueSeconds: number` — The continue countdown. - `route: number` — Route choice before the highlighted stage is taken anyway. ### `BubbleView` ```ts interface BubbleView ``` A bubble as the presenter sees it: stable id, kind, colour and position (press animation applied). - `id: number` — Stable id: one sprite per id. - `kind: CellKind` — Cell kind. - `color: number` — Colour (-1 for uncoloured kinds). - `col: number` — Column. - `row: number` — Row. - `x: number` — World x. - `y: number` — World y. ### `CeilingConfig` ```ts interface CeilingConfig ``` The ceiling schedule. - `mode: 'press' | 'push' | 'none'` — `press`: the ceiling and everything on it come down a row (Puzzle Bobble). `push`: a new row of live colours is pushed in from the top (rising-row variants). `none`: never. - `baseShots: number` — Shots between drops when every palette colour is on the board. - `palette: number` — The palette size counted as "every colour". - `perMissingColour: number` — Shots taken off the interval per palette colour missing from the board. - `minShots: number` — The shortest interval. - `warnShots: number` — The board shakes when this many shots or fewer remain before a drop (0 disables). - `dropSeconds: number` — Seconds the press takes to come down (no firing meanwhile). ### `Cell` ```ts interface Cell ``` One occupied cell. `id` is stable for the cell's whole life, so a presenter can key one sprite to it. - `id: number` — Stable id, unique within the field. - `kind: CellKind` — What the cell holds. - `color: number` — The colour index for `bubble`; -1 for every other kind. ### `CellKind` ```ts type CellKind = 'bubble' | 'clear' | 'stone' | 'star' ``` What a cell holds. - `bubble`: a coloured bubble. Pops in a same-colour group of `popMin` or more; drops when cut loose. - `clear`: an uncoloured bubble (Puzzle Bobble 2's jama bubble). Never pops; only drops. - `stone`: a fixed block (Puzzle Bobble 2's jama block). Never pops, never drops, and anchors whatever hangs from it as the ceiling does. Ignored by the clear test and the dead line. - `star`: Puzzle Bobble 2's gem. A coloured shot that lands touching it pops every bubble of the shot's colour and the star. Otherwise it behaves as a clear bubble. ### `CellView` ```ts interface CellView extends Cell ``` A cell together with where it is: what queries, pops and drops report. - `col: number` — The column. - `row: number` — The row. - `x: number` — The world centre x. - `y: number` — The world centre y (includes the ceiling press). ### `FieldSnapshot` ```ts interface FieldSnapshot ``` A plain-data snapshot of a field. - `cells: [number, number, number, CellKind, number][]` — Occupied cells as [col, row, id, kind, color]. - `press: number` — Ceiling presses so far. - `parity: number` — Row parity offset (toggled by `pushRow`). - `nextId: number` — Next cell id. - `score: number` — Legacy counters. - `shots: number` — Legacy counters. - `rng: RngState` — Where the seeded stream stands (a kernel `Rng` snapshot). ### `HurryConfig` ```ts interface HurryConfig ``` The idle timer: a warning countdown, then the launcher fires by itself. - `warnAfter: number` — Seconds after a bubble is loaded before the HURRY UP countdown shows. - `fireAfter: number` — Seconds after a bubble is loaded when it fires automatically at the current tilt. ### `LauncherConfig` ```ts interface LauncherConfig ``` The launcher ("pointer"). - `maxTilt: number` — Largest tilt either side of straight up, in radians. - `turnSpeed: number` — Turn speed while a direction is held, radians per second. - `shotSpeed: number` — Shot speed, world units per second. - `reloadSeconds: number` — Seconds after a shot lands before the next bubble is loaded and can fire. ### `LegendEntry` ```ts type LegendEntry = { … } ``` How a layout character maps to a cell. Colour letters map to `{ kind: 'bubble', color }`. - `kind: CellKind` - `color?: number` ### `Resolution` ```ts interface Resolution ``` What `place` did: the bubble that landed, what popped, what fell. - `placed: CellView` — The placed cell as it landed (it is also in `pops` when it popped). - `pops: CellView[]` — Cells cleared by the pop (the placed bubble included), or by a star. Empty when nothing popped. - `drops: CellView[]` — Cells that fell because they no longer hang from the ceiling or a stone. - `star: boolean` — True when a star did the popping. ### `RouteStage` ```ts interface RouteStage ``` A stage of a branching route (Puzzle Bobble 2's alphabet tree). - `id: string` — Stage id shown on the map ("A", "B", "?"). - `rounds: number[]` — Indices into `rounds`, played in order. - `next: string[]` — Stage ids the player may choose after this one; empty for a final stage. ### `ScoringConfig` ```ts interface ScoringConfig ``` Points. - `pop: number` — Points per popped bubble. - `dropBase: number` — Dropped bubbles score `dropBase * 2^n` for n dropped by one shot. - `dropCap: number` — n is capped here (17 in Puzzle Bobble: 1,310,720). ### `ShooterConfig` ```ts interface ShooterConfig ``` Configures a `BubbleField` (and, through `createBubbleField`, the legacy instant-resolution board). - `cols: number` — Bubbles in a full row. Puzzle Bobble: 8 (17 on Puzzle Bobble 2's wide boards). - `rows: number` — Rows that fit above the dead line. A bubble that comes to rest in row `rows` or below (after presses) has crossed the line. Puzzle Bobble: 11. - `seed?: number` — Seed for colour draws made by the field itself (legacy `shoot`, `fillRows`, `pushRow`). Default 1. - `colors?: number` — Palette size used by random draws. Default 6. - `radius?: number` — Bubble radius in world units. Default 16 (the Puzzle Bobble presets use 8, the arcade's 16-pixel bubble). - `rowHeight?: number` — Distance between row centres. Default `radius * 1.75` (14 for the arcade's 8). - `oddRows?: 'short' | 'full'` — `short`: shifted rows hold `cols - 1` bubbles and the field is `cols` bubbles wide (Puzzle Bobble). `full`: every row holds `cols` and the field is half a bubble wider. Default `short`. - `hitScale?: number` — A shot stops when its centre comes within `2 * radius * hitScale` of a bubble's centre. Below 1 lets a well-aimed shot slip into a one-bubble gap, as the arcade does. Default 0.8. - `lineGap?: number` — Extra space between the lowest legal row and the drawn dead line. Default `radius / 4`. - `launcherDrop?: number` — Launcher centre below the dead line. Default `radius * 1.25`. - `layout?: readonly string[]` — Initial layout, one string per row from the ceiling (see `parseLayout`). - `legend?: Readonly>` — Characters for `layout`. Default `DEFAULT_LEGEND`. - `fillRows?: number` — Legacy: pre-fill this many top rows with random colours when no layout is given. Default 0 with a layout, otherwise 5. - `ceilingEveryShots?: number` — Legacy instant `shoot`: push a new random row in from the top after this many shots. 0 disables. Default 0. - `popMin?: number` — Smallest same-colour group that pops. Default 3. ### `ShotResult` ```ts interface ShotResult ``` The outcome of one legacy `BubbleField.shoot` call. - `path: Vec[]` — World-space flight path (launcher to snap), reflecting off walls. - `snap: XY | null` — The cell the shot bubble snapped to, or null when the shot missed. - `pops: XY[]` — The cells cleared by the same-colour pop. Empty when the group was smaller than `popMin`. - `drops: XY[]` — The cells that fell because the pop cut them off from the ceiling. - `ceilingStepped: boolean` — True when this shot pushed a new row in from the top (`ceilingEveryShots`). - `topOut: boolean` — True when a bubble has crossed the dead line: the game is lost. - `won: boolean` — True when the field is now empty. - `gained: number` — The score gained by this shot (Puzzle Bobble table: 10 a pop, 10 x 2^n for n dropped, n capped at 17). ### `TimeBonusConfig` ```ts interface TimeBonusConfig ``` The round-clear time bonus: full until `fullUntil` seconds, then falling by `perSecond`, none from `cutoff`. - `max: number` — The full bonus. - `fullUntil: number` — Seconds within which the full bonus is paid. - `perSecond: number` — Points lost per second after `fullUntil`. - `cutoff: number` — No bonus at or after this many seconds. - `wholeSeconds: boolean` — Count whole seconds (Puzzle Bobble) or exact time (Puzzle Bobble 2). - `step?: number` — Round the bonus down to a multiple of this. Default 10. ### `TraceResult` ```ts interface TraceResult ``` The outcome of `BubbleField.trace`: where a shot goes and what it touches. - `path: Vec[]` — World-space path: the start, each wall bounce, and the contact point. - `hit: XY | null` — The cell the shot would snap into, or null when it never touches anything. - `contact: XY | null` — The bubble it touched, or null for the ceiling (or a miss). - `bounces: number` — Number of wall bounces on the way. ### `Vec` ```ts interface Vec ``` A world-space point, in field units (y down, origin at the ceiling's left end). - `x: number` — The x position, in world units. - `y: number` — The y position, in world units. ### `XY` ```ts interface XY ``` A grid cell position on the field: column `x`, row `y` counted down from the ceiling. - `x: number` — The column of the cell. - `y: number` — The row of the cell (0 hangs from the ceiling). --- ## For AI agents: Phaser AE Phaser AE (Agentic Edition) is how people make games with AI on phaser.io. 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