---
title: "Title, pause and game over: API"
package: "@phaser-ae/flow"
tier: Free
version: 3.0.0-4
released: 2026-10-14
updated: 2026-10-20
description: "The title, pause and game-over scenes every game needs, with the run's score and a best score to beat, ready from the first build."
url: https://phaser.io/packs/flow/api
site: Phaser - https://phaser.io
---

# Title, pause and game over: API

`@phaser-ae/flow` — The scenes every game has and nobody wants to write again — with the score and best score that thread through them.

## The pack

### `flow`

```ts
function flow(opts: FlowOptions = {}): Pack<{ flow: FlowApi }>
```

The flow pack: a title, a game over and a pause menu as real scenes, with the score and best score that
thread through them. Requires `world:screen` and the `typography` pack. Composing it alongside a game that
registers its own `title` is a loud error — rename flow's with `names`.

## Types

### `FlowApi`

```ts
interface FlowApi
```

`game.flow`.

- `score: number` — The run's score. Setting it beats the best if it should.
- `readonly best: number` — The best score seen; persisted through `save` when that pack is composed.
- `add(n: number): number` — Add to the score and return the total.
- `start(): void` — Start a run: zero the score and go to the play scene.
- `end(win?: boolean): void` — End a run: to the game-over scene, which says YOU WIN when `win`.
- `readonly paused: boolean` — True while the pause scene is on top.
- `pause(on?: boolean): void` — Push or pop the pause scene.
- `readonly won: boolean` — Did the last run end in a win — what the game-over scene reads.

### `FlowNames`

```ts
interface FlowNames
```

What the scenes are called, so a game with its own `title` can rename flow's rather than colliding.

- `title?: string` — The title scene. Default 'title'.
- `gameOver?: string` — The game-over scene. Default 'gameOver'.
- `pause?: string` — The pause scene, pushed over play. Default 'pause'.
- `play?: string` — The scene a start goes to. Default 'play'.

### `FlowOptions`

```ts
interface FlowOptions
```

Manifest options.

- `heading?: string` — The big word on the title. Default 'GAME'.
- `subtitle?: string` — A line under it. Default none.
- `prompt?: string` — What to press. Default 'PRESS SPACE', or 'TAP TO START' on a touch device.
- `scenes?: ReadonlyArray<'title' | 'gameOver' | 'pause'>` — Which scenes to register. Default all three.
- `names?: FlowNames` — Scene names, for a game that already owns one of them.
- `confirmKeys?: ReadonlyArray<string>` — Key codes that start, confirm and dismiss. Default Space and Enter.
- `pauseKey?: string` — Key code that pushes and pops the pause scene. Default 'Escape'.
- `tint?: string` — Text colour. Default '#e6e9f5'.
- `dim?: string` — Dimmer colour for secondary lines. Default '#8a93b5'.
- `layer?: LayerName` — The layer to draw on. Default 'hud', or the last layer.
- `bestKey?: string` — Where the best score is kept, if `save` is composed. Default 'best'.

---

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