--- title: "Platform rounds: API" package: "@phaser-ae/platform-rounds" tier: Pro version: 3.0.0-3 released: 2026-10-14 updated: 2026-10-19 description: "The round rules of a side-view arcade platform game, with objectives, bonus timers, hammers, bumps and kicks, POW blocks, spawns, stage sequences, lives and difficulty, built from data." url: https://phaser.io/packs/platform-rounds/api site: Phaser - https://phaser.io --- # Platform rounds: API `@phaser-ae/platform-rounds` — Round rules for arcade platform games: objectives, bonus timers, hammers, bumps and kicks, POW blocks, spawns, stage sequences, lives and difficulty. ## The pack ### `platformRounds` ```ts function platformRounds(): Pack<{ platformRounds: typeof api }> ``` Install the renderer-independent platform rounds API. ## Helpers ### `bumpModule` ```ts function bumpModule(): RoundsModule ``` Floors bumped from below, kicks, POW, Slipice, icicles and fireballs: the Mario Bros family, as a module. ### `createRounds` ```ts function createRounds(def: RoundsDef): Rounds ``` Create a game session from a definition. Call `attract()` or `start()` before ticking. ### `difficultyPreset` ```ts function difficultyPreset(name: "easy" | "normal" | "arcade"): DifficultyScale ``` The three standard scales. Arcade reproduces the original tables; Normal is the human-playable default. ## Constants ### `BUMP_MODULE` ```ts const BUMP_MODULE: "bump" ``` The id `bumpModule` runs under: its state is `RoundsState.modules.bump`. ## Types ### `BumpDef` ```ts interface BumpDef ``` Floors bumped from below (Mario Bros): flips, kills and kicks. - `radius?: number` — Cells either side of the bumped cell that are affected. Default 1. - `kick?: { scores: number[]; window?: number }` — Kicking flipped enemies: the chain of points; a kick within `window` seconds of the last advances it. - `afterKick?: { emitter: string; kind: string; delay?: number; skipLast?: boolean }` — After each kick, emit this kind from this emitter (Mario Bros coin wafers). ### `BumpModuleState` ```ts interface BumpModuleState ``` The bump module's state: POW uses, the kick chain, and what it keeps per enemy. Plain data, saved in snapshots. - `pow: number` — POW uses left. - `powFull: number` — POW uses when full; 0 until the first stage with a POW block. - `kickChain: number` — Kicks in the current chain, less one. - `kickTime: number` — When the last kick happened, in seconds of play on the stage. - `drops: Record` — By enemy id: seconds after appearing that it lets go and drops (icicles), or -1 once it has. - `freezes: Record` — By enemy id: grounded seconds before a Slipice freezes its floor (`freeze.at: 'anywhere'`). - `grounded: Record` — By enemy id: seconds a Slipice has walked on a floor. ### `DifficultyScale` ```ts interface DifficultyScale ``` Difficulty and population scaling shared by every stage (Easy / Normal / Arcade presets, or your own). - `name: string` — Display name. - `speed: number` — Global enemy speed multiplier (platform-enemies speed scale). Arcade 1. - `interval: number` — Multiplier on every emitter interval (larger: fewer enemies). Arcade 1. - `timer: number` — Multiplier on bonus timer step intervals (larger: more time). Arcade 1. - `aggression: number` — 0..1 multiplier the presets apply to aggressive choices (barrel steering, wild barrels, chasers). Arcade 1. - `population: number` — Multiplier on enemy population caps (emitter `max`, roster sizes where a preset honours it). Arcade 1. - `grace: number` — Multiplier on how long stunned enemies stay flipped and on hammer time (larger: kinder). Arcade 1. ### `FeetRef` ```ts type FeetRef = { x: number; feet: number } | { marker: string; index?: number; dx?: number } ``` Where a body stands: feet position or a marker's floor. ### `InterludeDef` ```ts interface InterludeDef ``` An intermission played before or after a stage (presentation reads `kind` and `phaseTime`). - `kind: string` — Free name read by presenters: 'how-high', 'carry', 'fall', 'phase' ... - `seconds: number` — Seconds. - `everyAttempt?: boolean` — Play it before every attempt, not only the first (Donkey Kong's "How high can you get?"). Default false. ### `JumpOverDef` ```ts interface JumpOverDef ``` Jump-over scoring: points for clearing enemies in one jump (Donkey Kong: 100, 300, 800). - `scores: number[]` — Points by count: index 0 for one enemy, the last entry for that many or more. - `below?: number` — How far below the feet an enemy may pass and still count, world units. Default 24. - `falls?: boolean` — Also score when the player merely falls over enemies (not only in a jump). Default false. - `shown?: number[]` — Values to display instead of `scores` (Donkey Kong shows 800 for three barrels but pays 500). Default `scores`. ### `KindRules` ```ts interface KindRules ``` What happens when the player touches an enemy kind, bumps it, smashes it or jumps over it. - `contact?: "kill" | "harmless" | "collect"` — Touching it while active: the player dies ('kill', default), nothing ('harmless') or it is collected ('collect'). - `stunnedContact?: "kick" | "kill" | "harmless"` — Touching it while flipped: kick it away ('kick', default for kinds with stun rules), 'kill' or 'harmless'. - `collect?: number` — Points for collecting it (`contact: 'collect'`). - `smash?: number | number[]` — Hammer smash points; an array picks one at random per smash. Omit: a hammer cannot destroy it. - `jump?: boolean` — Counts toward jump-over scoring when the player jumps over it. - `bump?: "flip" | "kill" | "none"` — A floor bumped from below under it: 'flip' (platform-enemies hit rules), 'kill' (destroyed), 'none'. Default 'flip'. - `bumpScore?: number` — Points for a bump: per flip ('flip') or per kill ('kill'). Default 0. - `pow?: "flip" | "kill" | "none"` — The POW block destroys it while it touches a floor (or is airborne, with `powAir`). Default: flips it like a bump. - `powAir?: boolean` — POW also reaches it in the air. Default false. - `powScore?: number` — Points when a POW destroys it. Default `bumpScore`. - `counts?: boolean` — Counts toward a 'clear' objective. Default true. - `dropAfter?: number | [number, number]` — Seconds after spawning before a hanging body (flight profile) starts to fall (icicles). - `shatterOnLand?: boolean` — Removed when it lands after falling ('shatter'). Default false. - `expire?: number` — Removed this many seconds after spawning (fireballs that burn out). - `freeze?: { at?: "centre" | "anywhere"; after?: number | [number, number]; material?: string; tag?: string }` — Freezes the floor run it walks on into `material`, then is removed (Slipice): when it reaches the run's centre (`at: 'centre'`, default) or after `after` grounded seconds (`at: 'anywhere'`). With `tag`, only runs whose cells carry that tag freeze. A run already of that material is passed over. - `removeOutside?: boolean` — Removed when it leaves the map through an open side. Default true. - `edgeExit?: boolean` — Removed when it reaches the side of the map it is heading for (fireballs crossing a wrapping screen). Default false. - `young?: { seconds: number; contact: "destroy" | "harmless" }` — While younger than `seconds`, touching it 'destroy's it (no points) or is 'harmless' (forming icicles). ### `ObjectiveDef` ```ts type ObjectiveDef = /** Reach a zone (Donkey Kong: Pauline's girder). */ | { type: "reach"; zone: ZoneRef; grounded?: boolean } /** Defeat `count` enemies of `kinds` (default: every counted kind), none left alive (Mario Bros phases). */ | { type: "clear"; kinds?: string[]; count?: number } /** Remove every map cell tagged `tag` by walking or jumping over it (Donkey Kong rivets). */ | { type: "cells"; tag: string; score?: number; replace?: CellSpec; over?: number } /** Take every item pickup (or those named `names`): gems, stars, keys. */ | { type: "pickups"; names?: string[] } /** Collect `count` enemies of `kinds` (contact 'collect' or bump 'kill'); `perfect` points when all are taken. */ | { type: "collect"; kinds: string[]; count?: number; perfect?: number | number[] } ``` A stage objective. Stages end when ALL their objectives are met. ### `PickupDef` ```ts type PickupDef = /** A hammer (Donkey Kong): smash enemies whose rules allow it; no jumping or climbing while held. */ | { type: "hammer"; id?: string; at: PointRef; w?: number; h?: number; duration: number; warn?: number; reach?: number; above?: number; profile?: WalkerProfileInput; pause?: number } /** A bonus item worth points (Pauline's umbrella, hat and purse). */ | { type: "item"; id?: string; name?: string; at: PointRef; w?: number; h?: number; score: number } ``` A pickup. ### `PickupState` ```ts interface PickupState ``` A pickup's state. - `id: string` — Id. - `type: "hammer" | "item"` — 'hammer' or 'item'. - `name: string` — Item name (render). - `x: number` — Centre x. - `y: number` — Centre y. - `w: number` — Width. - `h: number` — Height. - `taken: boolean` — Taken this attempt. ### `PointRef` ```ts type PointRef = { x: number; y: number } | { marker: string; index?: number; dx?: number; dy?: number } ``` A point given directly (`x` centre, `y` centre) or a map marker's cell centre (plus an offset). ### `PowDef` ```ts interface PowDef ``` A POW block: map cells tagged `tag`; bumping one from below hits every grounded enemy. - `tag?: string` — Cell tag. Default 'pow'. - `uses?: number` — Uses when full. Default 3. - `refill?: boolean` — Refill to full when this stage starts. Default false (uses carry over between stages). - `score?: number` — Points per POW. Default 0. ### `Rect` ```ts interface Rect ``` A world rectangle by its top-left corner and size. - `x: number` — Left, world units. - `y: number` — Top, world units (y down). - `w: number` — Width. - `h: number` — Height. ### `RespawnDef` ```ts interface RespawnDef ``` Where and how the player comes back after a death that does not restart the stage (Mario Bros). - `at: FeetRef` — Respawn point (feet). - `platform?: { width: number; seconds: number; kind?: string }` — A temporary platform under the respawn point: width and seconds before it vanishes (or the player walks off). ### `Rounds` ```ts interface Rounds ``` A running game. - `readonly def: RoundsDef` — The definition. - `readonly state: RoundsState` — A copy of the presenter-facing state. - `readonly stage: StageDef` — The current stage's resolved definition. - `readonly map: PlatformMap` — The current level model. - `readonly movers: Movers` — The current movers. - `readonly world: WalkerWorld` — The current walker world. - `readonly enemies: EnemyDirector` — The current enemy director. - `readonly player: string` — The player body id ('player'). - `readonly difficulty: DifficultyScale` — The difficulty in force: the definition's, or the last `setDifficulty`. A copy. - `levelStages(level: number): string[]` — Stage ids of a level. - `start(o?: { level?: number; index?: number; skipIntro?: boolean }): void` — Start a new game (optionally at a level and stage index). - `attract(o?: { level?: number; index?: number }): void` — Show a stage without playing (attract mode: the player is hidden, enemies run). - `tick(seconds: number, input: RoundsInput): number` — Run whole fixed steps for elapsed seconds; returns the number run. - `step(input: RoundsInput): void` — One fixed step. - `setDifficulty(d: DifficultyScale): void` — Change the difficulty (applies to stages built from now on, and enemy speed at once). - `setPlayerProfile(profile: WalkerProfile | WalkerProfileInput): void` — Replace the player's movement profile now and for the rest of the game (respawns and hammers restore to it). - `drain(): RoundsEvent[]` — Events since the last drain. - `snapshot(): RoundsSnapshot` — Serialisable state. - `restore(s: RoundsSnapshot): void` — Restore a snapshot taken from a session with the same definition. ### `RoundsDef` ```ts interface RoundsDef ``` The whole game: stages, their order, the player, lives and timing. - `stages: Record` — Stages by id. - `sequence: SequenceDef` — Order. - `player: { profile: WalkerProfile | WalkerProfileInput; tags?: string[] }` — The player's body: its walker profile (a full profile or the fields that differ from the default) and tags. - `lives?: number` — Lives at the start (including the one in play). Default 3. - `maxLives?: number` — Most lives held. Default 9. - `extraLives?: number[]` — Scores that award an extra life (each once). Default none. - `extraEvery?: number` — After the last threshold, another life every this many points (0: none). Default 0. - `timings?: { intro?: number; ready?: number; death?: number; clear?: number; over?: number }` — Phase durations, seconds. - `difficulty?: DifficultyScale` — Difficulty scale. Default Arcade. - `seed?: number` — Seed. Default 1. - `step?: number` — Fixed step, seconds. Default 1/60. - `hiScore?: number` — Initial high score. Default 0. - `maxSteps?: number` — Cap on a tick's steps. Default 8. - `modules?: RoundsModule[]` — Rules modules, called in this order at fixed points of each step (see `RoundsModule`). Default `[bumpModule()]`: floors bumped from below, kicks, POW, Slipice, icicles and fireballs. Add a game's own after it, or leave it out where a game has none of those (its kind and stage fields then do nothing). ### `RoundsEvent` ```ts type RoundsEvent = | { kind: "game-start" } | { kind: "stage-start"; level: number; index: number; stage: string; attempt: number } | { kind: "phase"; phase: RoundsPhase } | { kind: "score"; points: number; reason: string; x: number; y: number; total: number } | { kind: "extra-life"; lives: number } | { kind: "death"; cause: string; x: number; y: number } | { kind: "life-lost"; lives: number } | { kind: "jump-over"; count: number; points: number; shown: number; x: number; y: number } | { kind: "spawned"; enemy: string; enemyKind: string; emitter: string; x: number; y: number } | { kind: "pickup"; id: string; type: "hammer" | "item"; name: string; x: number; y: number } | { kind: "hammer-end"; id: string } | { kind: "smash"; enemy: string; enemyKind: string; points: number; x: number; y: number } | { kind: "cell"; col: number; row: number; tag: string; points: number } | { kind: "bump"; col: number; row: number; x: number; y: number } | { kind: "flip"; enemy: string; enemyKind: string; result: "flipped" | "angered" | "unflipped" } | { kind: "kick"; enemy: string; enemyKind: string; points: number; chain: number; x: number; y: number } | { kind: "collect"; enemy: string; enemyKind: string; points: number; x: number; y: number } | { kind: "destroy"; enemy: string; enemyKind: string; cause: string; points: number; x: number; y: number } | { kind: "pow"; uses: number; col: number; row: number } | { kind: "sink"; enemy: string; enemyKind: string; spawned: string; x: number; y: number } | { kind: "freeze"; enemy: string; row: number; cols: number[] } | { kind: "toggle"; id: string; on: boolean } | { kind: "timer"; value: number } | { kind: "timer-zero" } | { kind: "stage-clear"; stage: string; bonus: number; result: string } | { kind: "level-clear"; level: number } | { kind: "game-over"; score: number } ``` Events, in order, from `drain()`. ### `RoundsInput` ```ts interface RoundsInput ``` Player input for one step. - `x: number` — -1 left .. 1 right. - `y: number` — -1 up .. 1 down. - `jump: boolean` — Jump held. ### `RoundsModule` ```ts interface RoundsModule ``` A rules module: game rules the session calls at fixed points of each step, with a state of its own (plain data, carried by snapshots, shown in `RoundsState.modules`). `bumpModule()` is one; a game passes its own in `RoundsDef.modules`. Every hook is optional. - `id: string` — Unique among the modules: names its state in `RoundsState.modules` and in snapshots. - `init?(): S` — Its state for a new game: plain data. Default `{}`. - `build?(api: RoundsModuleApi, state: S): void` — A stage has been built: at its start, and again when a death restarts it. - `beforeMove?(api: RoundsModuleApi, state: S): void` — Each step of play, before the bodies move (after enemy ages have advanced). - `bump?(api: RoundsModuleApi, state: S, at: { col: number; row: number; x: number; y: number }): void` — The player bumped a map cell from below; `x`, `y` is where. The session has already reported a `bump` event. - `contact?(api: RoundsModuleApi, state: S, e: Readonly, b: Readonly): boolean | void` — The player touches an enemy whose body is enabled. Return true when the module has dealt with it: the session's own contact rule then leaves it alone. - `enemyEvent?(api: RoundsModuleApi, state: S, ev: WalkerEvent, e: Readonly): void` — A world event about an enemy's body (`landed`, `out-of-bounds` ...), after the session's own handling (which removes an enemy that leaves the map). - `enemies?(api: RoundsModuleApi, state: S): void` — Each step of play, and of attract mode, after contacts and sinks: rules about the enemies alone. - `removed?(api: RoundsModuleApi, state: S, id: string): void` — An enemy has been removed, for any reason: forget what the module kept about it. ### `RoundsModuleApi` ```ts interface RoundsModuleApi ``` What a rules module reaches while the session runs. Bodies and enemies come live and read-only: read them within the call, and change things through these calls and the parts' own APIs. - `readonly stage: StageDef` — The current stage's resolved definition. - `readonly map: PlatformMap` — The level. - `readonly world: WalkerWorld` — The walker world. - `readonly enemies: EnemyDirector` — The enemy director. - `readonly player: string` — The player's body id. - `readonly time: number` — Seconds of play on this stage attempt. - `readonly dt: number` — The fixed step, seconds. - `rules(kind: string): KindRules` — A kind's rules on this stage; empty when it has none. - `stuns(kind: string): boolean` — Whether a kind can be flipped: it has stun rules. - `body(e: Readonly): Readonly | null` — An enemy's body, live and read-only, or null when it has none. - `age(id: string): number` — Seconds since an enemy appeared; 0 for one the session does not know. - `random(): number` — The session's seeded stream: a number in [0, 1). - `award(points: number, reason: string, x?: number, y?: number): void` — Add points, with where to show them. - `emit(e: RoundsEvent): void` — Report an event. - `remove(e: Readonly, reason: string): void` — Remove an enemy. It counts toward a 'clear' objective unless `reason` is 'sink', 'gone', 'expired' or 'frozen', or its kind has `counts: false`. - `destroy(e: Readonly, b: Readonly, cause: string, points: number): void` — Destroy an enemy for points (`cause` says why), or collect it when its kind's contact is 'collect'. - `die(cause: string): void` — Kill the player. - `spawnLater(o: { kind: string; emitter?: string; at?: { x: number; feet: number }; facing?: -1 | 1; delay?: number }): void` — Spawn one body of `kind` later: from `emitter`, or at `at` (feet) facing `facing`, `delay` seconds from now (default 0). - `lastDefeated(): boolean` — Whether a 'clear' objective has all it needs and nothing it counts is left: the last enemy is down. ### `RoundsPendingSpawn` ```ts interface RoundsPendingSpawn ``` A spawn still to come: from the stage's `spawns[src]`, or a one-off (`src` -1: kicks, sinks, `spawnLater`). - `src: number` — Index into the stage's `spawns`, or -1 for a one-off. - `kind: string` — Enemy kind. - `emitter?: string` — Emitter to spawn from, if any. - `at?: { x: number; feet: number }` — Where (feet), if not from an emitter or the spawn's points. - `facing?: -1 | 1` — Facing. - `due: number` — When it is due, seconds of play. - `left: number` — Spawns left: -1 unlimited. - `cyc: number` — Which of the spawn's points comes next (`place: 'cycle'`). ### `RoundsPhase` ```ts type RoundsPhase = "attract" | "intro" | "before" | "ready" | "play" | "dying" | "clear" | "after" | "over" ``` Session phase. ### `RoundsSession` ```ts interface RoundsSession ``` The session's own state, as a snapshot holds it: plain data. Read it only to store it; `restore` puts it back. - `phase: RoundsPhase` — The phase. - `phaseTime: number` — Seconds in the phase. - `interlude: string` — The interlude playing in a 'before' or 'after' phase, or ''. - `level: number` — Level number, from 1. - `index: number` — Stage index within the level, from 0. - `loop: number` — Sequence loops completed. - `attempt: number` — Attempt on this stage, from 1. - `score: number` — Score. - `hi: number` — High score. - `lives: number` — Lives, the one in play included. - `extras: number` — Extra lives awarded so far. - `time: number` — Seconds of play on this stage attempt. - `timer: number` — The bonus timer's value. - `timerStart: number` — The bonus timer's value at the stage's start. - `timerAcc: number` — Seconds towards the timer's next tick. - `timerOn: boolean` — Whether the timer is running. - `hammer: string` — The id of the hammer held, or ''. - `hammerLeft: number` — Seconds the hammer has left. - `pickups: PickupState[]` — The stage's pickups and whether each has been taken. - `removedCells: [number, number][]` — Cells a 'cells' objective has removed, [column, row], kept across deaths. - `keptPickups: string[]` — Item pickups taken, kept across restarts with `keepPickups`. - `touchedCells: [number, number][]` — 'cells' objective cells the player is over now, [column, row]: removed once left behind. - `defeated: number` — Enemies defeated toward a 'clear' objective. - `collected: number` — Enemies collected toward a 'collect' objective. - `pending: RoundsPendingSpawn[]` — Spawns still to come. - `pause: number` — Seconds the action stays frozen (a hammer smash). - `zeroAt: number` — When the timer reached zero, seconds of play, or -1: its `onZero` waits `zeroDelay` from here. - `jumpSet: string[]` — Enemies cleared in the jump under way, for jump-over scoring. - `ages: Record` — By enemy id: seconds since it appeared. - `modules: Record` — By module id: each rules module's state. - `toggles: { id: string; on: boolean; t: number }[]` — Toggles: on or off, and seconds into the cycle. - `respawnLeft: number` — Seconds the respawn platform has left. - `respawnMoved: boolean` — Whether the player has moved since respawning (the platform then goes when left). - `deathCause: string` — Why the player died last, or ''. - `result: string` — How the stage ended ('objective', 'time'), or '' while it runs. - `ramp: number` — The enemy speed ramp in force (the stage's `ramp`), 1 without one. - `rng: number[]` — The seeded random stream's state: four words, from the kernel's `rng.snapshot()`. It advances in place and is saved with the state. - `events: RoundsEvent[]` — Events not yet drained. ### `RoundsSnapshot` ```ts interface RoundsSnapshot ``` Serialisable session state (sub-packs snapshot themselves inside). - `s: RoundsSession` — Session fields. - `map: PlatformMapSnapshot` — Map. - `movers: MoversSnapshot` — Movers. - `world: WalkerWorldSnapshot` — World. - `enemies: EnemiesSnapshot` — Enemies. - `difficulty: DifficultyScale` — The difficulty in force, which `setDifficulty` may have changed since the definition. - `player: WalkerProfile | null` — The player profile `setPlayerProfile` set, or null for the definition's. ### `RoundsState` ```ts interface RoundsState ``` Everything a presenter reads. - `phase: RoundsPhase` — Phase. - `phaseTime: number` — Seconds in the phase. - `interlude: string` — Interlude being played ('before'/'after' phases) or ''. - `level: number` — Level number. - `stageIndex: number` — Stage index within the level. - `stage: string` — Stage id. - `stageName: string` — Stage display name. - `theme: string` — Stage theme. - `loop: number` — Sequence loops completed. - `attempt: number` — Attempt on this stage. - `score: number` — Score. - `hiScore: number` — High score. - `lives: number` — Lives including the one in play. - `extras: number` — Extra lives awarded so far. - `timer: { value: number; start: number; warning: boolean; active: boolean }` — Bonus timer value (0 without a timer), its start and whether it is in its warning band. - `hammer: { active: boolean; left: number; warning: boolean; id: string }` — Hammer held: seconds left, and the warning flag. - `pow: { uses: number; full: number }` — POW uses left and full, from `bumpModule` (0 and 0 without it). - `modules: Record` — Copies of each rules module's state, by module id. - `pickups: PickupState[]` — Pickups. - `cellsLeft: number` — Cell objective: cells left. - `defeated: number` — Clear objective: defeated so far and needed. - `needed: number` — Enemies needed for a 'clear' objective (0 without one). - `collected: number` — Collect objective: collected so far and needed. - `toCollect: number` — Items needed for a 'collect' objective. - `toggles: { id: string; on: boolean; progress: number }[]` — Toggles: on, seconds into the current state and render progress 0..1 (1 = fully on). - `respawning: boolean` — Respawn platform present (Mario Bros). - `deathCause: string` — Why the player died last ('' none). - `result: string` — How the last stage ended ('' while running): 'objective', 'time'. - `time: number` — Seconds of play on this stage attempt. - `speed: number` — Current enemy speed multiplier (difficulty x ramp). - `difficulty: string` — Difficulty name. ### `SequenceDef` ```ts interface SequenceDef ``` The order of stages: one list per level; after the last level the list at `loopFrom` onward repeats. - `levels: string[][]` — levels[i] lists the stage ids of level i + 1. - `loopFrom?: number` — Level index (0-based) to repeat from after the last. Default the last level (it repeats forever). - `maxLevel?: number` — Highest level (the game ends after it). Default unlimited. ### `SinkDef` ```ts interface SinkDef ``` A zone that swallows enemies of some kinds and may turn them into another (an oil drum lighting fireballs). - `zone: ZoneRef` — Zone. - `kinds: string[]` — Kinds swallowed. - `spawn?: { kind: string; max?: number; facing?: -1 | 1; delay?: number; at?: FeetRef }` — Spawn this kind in their place (at `at`, default the zone's centre bottom), up to `max` alive, after `delay` seconds. - `score?: number` — Points awarded when swallowed. Default 0. ### `SpawnDef` ```ts interface SpawnDef ``` A body spawned when a stage starts, or later, once or repeatedly. - `kind: string` — Enemy kind. - `at?: FeetRef` — Where (feet). - `points?: FeetRef[] | ((rt: StageRuntime) => FeetRef[])` — Candidate points (feet), chosen by `place`; or computed when due. - `place?: "cycle" | "random" | "opposite-player" | "opposite-edge"` — How to choose among `points`: 'cycle' (default), 'random', or 'opposite-player' (random among points on the half of the map away from the player); 'opposite-edge' ignores points and appears at the map side away from the player at the player's feet height, facing them (Mario Bros green fireball). - `emitter?: string` — Emit from this emitter instead (its points and timing rules apply to the body). - `facing?: -1 | 1` — Facing. Default 1 (toward the player for 'opposite-edge'). - `delay?: number` — Seconds after play starts. Default 0. - `every?: number | [number, number] | ((rt: StageRuntime) => number)` — Repeat every this many seconds (a random interval in a range, or computed now) after the first. Default: once. - `max?: number | ((rt: StageRuntime) => number)` — Most alive of this kind for a spawn to happen (a skipped spawn waits for the next interval). Default unlimited. - `count?: number` — Most spawns in total from this entry. Default unlimited when repeating, else 1. - `when?(rt: StageRuntime): boolean` — A condition checked at each due time (a false result skips that spawn). ### `StageContext` ```ts interface StageContext ``` Context passed to stage builders: build a stage for a level, attempt and difficulty. - `level: number` — Level number, from 1. - `index: number` — Stage index within the level, from 0. - `stage: string` — Stage id. - `loop: number` — Times the sequence has looped (0 on the first pass). - `difficulty: DifficultyScale` — Difficulty scale. - `attempt: number` — Attempt number on this stage (1 on the first). ### `StageDef` ```ts interface StageDef ``` One stage: a level plus its rules. - `name?: string` — Display name ('25m', 'PHASE 1'). - `theme?: string` — Free label for presenters ('barrels', 'conveyors', 'bonus' ...). - `map: PlatformMapDef` — The level (platform-map definition). - `movers?: MoverDef[]` — Moving surfaces (platform-movers definitions). - `kinds?: Record` — Enemy kinds (platform-enemies). - `behaviours?: Record` — Custom enemy behaviours (platform-enemies `behaviours`). - `emitters?: EmitterDef[]` — Emitters (intervals are scaled by the difficulty). - `exits?: ExitDef[]` — Exits (pipes). - `spawns?: SpawnDef[]` — Initial and scheduled spawns. - `start?: FeetRef` — Player start (feet). Default the 'player' marker. - `facing?: -1 | 1` — Player facing at the start. Default 1. - `profile?: WalkerProfileInput` — Player profile override for this stage. - `objective: ObjectiveDef | ObjectiveDef[]` — Objectives (all must be met). - `timer?: TimerDef` — Bonus timer. - `rules?: Record` — Per-kind interaction rules. - `pickups?: PickupDef[]` — Pickups. - `jumpOver?: JumpOverDef` — Jump-over scoring. - `bump?: BumpDef` — Floors bumped from below. - `pow?: PowDef` — POW block. - `sinks?: SinkDef[]` — Sinks. - `toggles?: ToggleDef[]` — Timed cell toggles. - `ramp?: { every: number; step: number; max: number }` — Enemy speed ramp within the stage: +`step` every `every` seconds, up to `max` (multiplier). - `onDeath?: "restart" | "respawn"` — After a death: rebuild the stage ('restart', Donkey Kong) or continue it with a respawn ('respawn', Mario Bros). Default 'restart'. - `respawn?: RespawnDef` — Respawn rules for `onDeath: 'respawn'`. - `keepCells?: boolean` — Keep cells removed by a 'cells' objective across deaths. Default true. - `before?: InterludeDef` — Interlude before the stage starts. - `after?: InterludeDef` — Interlude after the stage is cleared. - `deaths?: { falls?: boolean; hazards?: boolean; outside?: boolean; crush?: boolean }` — Deaths from fatal landings, hazards, leaving through the bottom, and crushes (walker embeds caused by a moving surface or a map edit; plain overlaps never kill). Default all true. - `keepPickups?: boolean` — Item pickups taken stay taken after a death that restarts the stage (collected gems stay collected). Default false. - `clearBonus?: number` — Points added when the stage's objectives are met (a level-clear bonus). Default 0. - `speed?: number` — Enemy speed multiplier for this stage, on top of the difficulty (a per-level speed-up). Default 1. - `inset?: number` — Contact inset (world units) for player/enemy touches. Default 2. - `hazards?: ZoneRef[]` — Zones that kill the player on contact (a giant ape, a burning oil drum, a fatal bottom girder). - `step?(rt: StageRuntime, dt: number): void` — A policy hook called after the built-in rules every fixed step of play. ### `StageRuntime` ```ts interface StageRuntime ``` What the presenter and hooks can reach while a stage runs. - `readonly map: PlatformMap` — The level. - `readonly movers: Movers` — Movers (always present, possibly empty). - `readonly world: WalkerWorld` — Walker world. - `readonly enemies: EnemyDirector` — Enemy director. - `readonly player: string` — Player body id. - `readonly time: number` — Seconds since play started on this stage attempt. - `award(points: number, reason: string, x?: number, y?: number): void` — Add points (with a popup position). - `kill(cause: string): void` — Kill the player now. - `clear(reason?: string): void` — End the stage as cleared now. - `random(): number` — Seeded random number in [0, 1). ### `StageSource` ```ts type StageSource = StageDef | ((ctx: StageContext) => StageDef) ``` A stage given as data, or built per level and difficulty. ### `TimerDef` ```ts interface TimerDef ``` A countdown that pays out at the end of a stage, kills at zero, or ends the stage at zero. - `start: number` — Starting value (Donkey Kong: 5000 at level 1). - `step: number` — Amount removed per tick. - `every: number` — Seconds per tick (scaled by the difficulty's `timer`). - `onZero?: "die" | "end" | "none"` — At zero: the player dies ('die', Donkey Kong), the stage ends ('end', bonus phases) or nothing ('none'). Default 'die'. - `award?: boolean` — Add the remaining value to the score when the stage is cleared. Default true. - `warn?: number` — Value at or below which `warning` is reported. Default 1000. - `emitter?: string` — Tick once per spawn from this emitter instead of every `every` seconds (Donkey Kong 25 m: one tick per barrel). - `zeroDelay?: number` — Seconds between reaching zero and `onZero` taking effect (Donkey Kong: about 256 frames). Default 0. - `stopEmitters?: string[]` — Emitters switched off when the timer reaches zero (Kong stops throwing). ### `ToggleDef` ```ts interface ToggleDef ``` Map cells that switch between two specs on a timetable (Donkey Kong 50 m retracting ladders). - `id: string` — Id (render state, events). - `cells: { col: number; row: number }[]` — Cells switched. - `on: CellSpec` — Spec while on (extended). - `off: CellSpec` — Spec while off (retracted). - `period: [number, number]` — Seconds on, then seconds off. - `phase?: number` — Seconds into the cycle at the start. Default 0. - `travel?: number` — Seconds the change takes (render progress only; cells switch at the start of the change). Default 0.5. - `hold?: boolean` — Do not switch off while the player is on one of the cells (the switch waits). 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