---
title: "Floor-bump platform rounds: API"
package: "@phaser-ae/floor-bump"
tier: Pro
version: 3.0.0-1
released: 2026-10-19
updated: 2026-10-20
description: "A single-screen bump-and-kick platformer as data: enemies pour from pipes, you bump the floor beneath them to flip them, then kick them away for a rising chain."
url: https://phaser.io/packs/floor-bump/api
site: Phaser - https://phaser.io
---

# Floor-bump platform rounds: API

`@phaser-ae/floor-bump` — Bump-and-kick rounds for platform-rounds: the US phase table, pipes, floor bumps, kick chains, the POW block, coin phases, Slipice, icicles, as in Mario Bros.

## The pack

### `floorBump`

```ts
function floorBump(): Pack<{ floorBump: typeof api }>
```

Install the floor-bump preset API (`game.floorBump`) over platform-rounds.

## Helpers

### `marioBrosPreset`

```ts
function marioBrosPreset(o: MarioBrosOptions = {}): RoundsDef
```

Mario Bros (1983 arcade) as a `createRounds` definition: one stage per phase, the US phase table looping from
phase 29, three lives and one extra life at 20000. Pass a difficulty to scale speeds, intervals and flip time.

### `marioKinds`

```ts
function marioKinds(o: { speed?: number; recover?: number } = {}): Record<string, EnemyKind>
```

The Mario Bros enemy kinds for a phase pace (speed multiplier, recovery seconds).

### `marioPhases`

```ts
function marioPhases(): MarioPhase[]
```

The US phase table (StrategyWiki walkthrough): 35 phases, then 29-35 repeat.

### `marioPhaseStage`

```ts
function marioPhaseStage(ctx: StageContext, phase: MarioPhase, n: number, o: MarioBrosOptions = {}): StageDef
```

One phase as a stage definition.

### `marioPlayer`

```ts
function marioPlayer(handling: MarioHandling = "arcade"): WalkerProfile
```

Mario. Arcade handling follows the NES port's disassembly (RussianManSMWC/Mario-Bros.-Dis; no arcade disassembly
is public): a fixed 55 px jump rising for 28 frames then falling up to 4 px per frame (modelled as 240 px/s and
514 px/s²), no air control (speed and direction kept from take-off), walking 1 px per frame reached after about
13 frames, an 8-frame skid on releasing or reversing at speed (28 frames on ice), an 8 x 8 body probed at its
centre column (so he rises past a platform's end and lands on it, and bumps the underside only when beneath it).
Normal and Easy shorten the skid and add some steering in the air.

### `marioRules`

```ts
function marioRules(): Record<string, KindRules>
```

Interaction rules: bump 10 per flip, kicks by chain, coins 800, Slipice 500, red 1000, green 200; POW destroys fireballs for nothing.

## Constants

### `MARIO_ROWS`

```ts
const MARIO_ROWS: readonly string[]
```

The screen: 32 x 28 tiles of 8 ('#' floor, 'F' a floor Slipice can freeze, 'P' the POW block's solid top row). Platform columns and spacing follow PlatformLayoutData_F1E7 in the NES disassembly: tiers 48 px apart, side ledges 8 px below the centre platform, the POW block's top level with the low tier.

## Types

### `MarioBrosOptions`

```ts
interface MarioBrosOptions
```

Options for the Mario Bros preset. Defaults are the US arcade's (estimates where noted in the docs).

- `phases?: MarioPhase[]` — Phase table. Default `marioPhases()`.
- `loopFrom?: number` — Phase index (0-based) to loop back to after the last. Default 28 (phase 29).
- `lives?: number` — Lives (DIP 3, 4, 5, 6). Default 3.
- `extraLife?: number | null` — Extra life score (DIP 20000, 30000, 40000) or null. One only. Default 20000.
- `difficulty?: DifficultyScale` — Difficulty scale. Default Arcade.
- `seed?: number` — Seed.
- `rows?: readonly string[]` — Map rows (same legend). Default `MARIO_ROWS`.
- `recover?: number` — Seconds a flipped enemy stays down before recovering (about five).
- `spawnEvery?: number` — Seconds between enemies leaving the top pipes.
- `kickScores?: number[]` — Kick chain points.
- `kickWindow?: number` — Seconds between kicks that keep the chain.
- `powUses?: number` — POW uses.
- `player?: WalkerProfile` — Player profile override.
- `handling?: MarioHandling` — Mario's handling: 'arcade' (the original momentum), 'normal' (snappier turns, a little air control), 'easy'. Default 'arcade'.

### `MarioHandling`

```ts
type MarioHandling = "arcade" | "normal" | "easy"
```

Handling: 'arcade' is the original's movement; 'normal' turns snappier with a little air steering; 'easy' snappier still.

### `MarioPace`

```ts
type MarioPace = "slow" | "normal" | "fast" | "max"
```

Fireball pace grades from the StrategyWiki phase table.

### `MarioPhase`

```ts
interface MarioPhase
```

One phase: a roster of enemies emitted from the top pipes, or a coin bonus.

- `type: "enemies" | "bonus"` — 'enemies' or 'bonus' (TEST YOUR SKILL).
- `roster?: string[]` — Kinds in emission order ('shellcreeper', 'sidestepper', 'fighter-fly').
- `pace?: MarioPace` — Fireball and enemy pace.
- `slipice?: boolean` — Slipice appears.
- `icicles?: boolean` — Icicles form.
- `reds?: number` — Red fireballs allowed at once. Default 1.
- `seconds?: number` — Bonus: seconds allowed.
- `perfect?: number` — Bonus: perfect bonus.
- `floors?: "normal" | "ice" | "invisible"` — Bonus: floors 'normal', 'ice' or 'invisible' (drawn hidden, normal traction).
- `refillPow?: boolean` — Bonus: refill the POW block.

---

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