--- title: "Road racer: API" package: "@phaser-ae/road-racer" tier: Pro version: 3.0.0-3 released: 2026-10-14 updated: 2026-10-19 description: "The rules of pseudo-3D road racers seen from behind the car or bike, with branching routes, circuits and qualifying, the clock and checkpoints, traffic, rivals, crashes, scoring and endings." url: https://phaser.io/packs/road-racer/api site: Phaser - https://phaser.io --- # Road racer: API `@phaser-ae/road-racer` — Pseudo-3D road racing rules: route forks, circuits and qualifying, clocks, checkpoints, traffic, rivals, crashes, scoring and endings, as in Out Run. ## The pack ### `roadRacer` ```ts function roadRacer(): Pack<{ roadRacer: typeof api }> ``` Install the road racer API. ## Helpers ### `byDifficulty` ```ts function byDifficulty(v: ByDifficulty, d: Difficulty): T ``` Resolve a per-difficulty value. ### `createRoadRace` ```ts function createRoadRace(config: RoadRaceConfig): RoadRace ``` Create a road race. ### `DIFFICULTIES` ```ts const DIFFICULTIES: readonly Difficulty[] ``` The three levels in order. ### `HANG_ON_KINDS` ```ts const HANG_ON_KINDS: Record ``` Kinds the race spawns itself (the thrown rider, debris, smoke). Roadside kinds are in the road files. ### `HANG_ON_RIDERS` ```ts const HANG_ON_RIDERS: TrafficKind[] ``` Rival riders (their colours are art). ### `hangOnPreset` ```ts function hangOnPreset(o: HangOnOptions = {}): RoadRaceConfig ``` Hang-On as a road-racer configuration. ### `laneX` ```ts function laneX(i: number, hw: number, lanes: number): number ``` Lane centre (metres) of lane `i` (fractional allowed) on a road of half-width `hw` with `lanes` lanes. ### `nightDriverPreset` ```ts function nightDriverPreset(o: NightDriverOptions = {}): RoadRaceConfig ``` Night Driver as a road-racer configuration. ### `OUT_RUN_ENDINGS` ```ts const OUT_RUN_ENDINGS: Record ``` The five endings by goal stage. ### `OUT_RUN_KINDS` ```ts const OUT_RUN_KINDS: Record ``` Kinds the race spawns itself: smoke and dust off the tyres, the thrown couple, the crash flash. ### `OUT_RUN_SPEED_SCORE` ```ts const OUT_RUN_SPEED_SCORE: number[] ``` Cannonball OStats::convert_speed_score: points per 30 Hz tick on the road, indexed by speed / 16 km/h. ### `OUT_RUN_TIME` ```ts const OUT_RUN_TIME: Readonly> ``` Cannonball OStats::TIME: seconds by stage id for the Easy and Normal DIP settings (Normal is the factory default). ### `OUT_RUN_TRAFFIC` ```ts const OUT_RUN_TRAFFIC: { readonly easy: readonly [2, 2, 3, 4, 5]; readonly normal: readonly [3, 4, 5, 6, 7]; readonly hard: readonly [4, 5, 6, 7, 8]; } ``` Cannonball OTraffic::set_max_traffic: live traffic cap by stage column (Easy, Normal, Hard DIP). ### `OUT_RUN_TRAFFIC_KINDS` ```ts const OUT_RUN_TRAFFIC_KINDS: TrafficKind[] ``` Traffic: cars, a camper van, pickups and trucks (Cannonball's spawn_car draws from twenty traffic sprite types weighted toward the cars), all at Cannonball's speeds (200 +- 32 km/h). ### `outRunPreset` ```ts function outRunPreset(o: OutRunOptions = {}): RoadRaceConfig ``` Out Run as a road-racer configuration. ### `pickKind` ```ts function pickKind(kinds: readonly TrafficKind[], rng: Rng): TrafficKind ``` Pick a kind by weight. ### `POLE_POSITION_GRID` ```ts const POLE_POSITION_GRID: { time: number; bonus: number; }[] ``` Grid slots by qualifying lap time and their bonus. ### `POLE_POSITION_KINDS` ```ts const POLE_POSITION_KINDS: Record ``` Kinds the race spawns itself (the explosion, smoke). The billboards, arrows and stands are in the road file. ### `POLE_POSITION_RIVALS` ```ts const POLE_POSITION_RIVALS: TrafficKind[] ``` The rival cars (their colours are art; speeds in m/s). ### `polePositionPreset` ```ts function polePositionPreset(o: PolePositionOptions = {}): RoadRaceConfig ``` Pole Position as a road-racer configuration. ### `RACE_STEP` ```ts const RACE_STEP: number ``` The fixed simulation step (seconds). ### `RACER_ROADS` ```ts const RACER_ROADS: Record ``` The road files of this folder, by name. ### `SUPER_HANG_ON_COURSES` ```ts const SUPER_HANG_ON_COURSES: { readonly africa: { readonly stages: 6; readonly radius: [number, number]; readonly look: "africa"; readonly time: 50; readonly extend: 32; }; readonly asia: { readonly stages: 10; readonly radius: [number, number]; readonly look: "asia"; readonly time: 50; readonly extend: 30; }; readonly america: { ...; }; readon... … ``` Super Hang-On's courses: stage count, bend tightness and look (the road file's generator settings), clock. ### `superHangOnPreset` ```ts function superHangOnPreset(o: SuperHangOnOptions = {}): RoadRaceConfig ``` Super Hang-On (one course) as a road-racer configuration: the turbo bike, more stages, tighter clocks. ## Classes ### `Course` ```ts class Course ``` A road file being raced. - `readonly road: RoadData` — The loaded road-data file. - `path: RoadPath` — The path being driven; replaced when `setConditions` starts it again. - `readonly segmentLength: number` — Length of a route segment, metres. - `readonly drawDistance: number` — Segments drawn ahead. - `readonly options: CourseOptions` — A copy of the options the course was made with; `conditions` follows `setConditions`. - `leg!: RouteLeg` — The current leg: route options and per-segment data, and the PseudoRoad built from it. - `pseudo!: PseudoRoad` — The PseudoRoad the presenter draws, built from `leg` and rebuilt with it. - `constructor(doc: RoadDocument, o: CourseOptions = {})` - `setConditions(conditions: string[], at: number): void` — Start the path again with other conditions (Pole Position's race has puddles the qualifying lap does not). - `column(section: string): number` — Stage column (1-based) of a section in the route map. - `name(section: string): string` — Display name of a section. - `isSection(id: string): boolean` — Is a section one of the file's own sections (not a fork connector)? - `get sections(): string[]` — Every section id. - `get circuit(): boolean` — Is the start a closed circuit (a section that leads back to itself)? - `length(section: string): number` — Length of a section. - `ensureLeg(s: number): void` — Rebuild the drawn leg when the car has moved on or a fork was decided. - `buildLeg(from: number): void` — Lay the leg starting at path distance `from`. - `tunnelOn(seg: number): CourseTunnel | null` — The tunnel over a leg segment (null: open road). - `tunnelAt(z: number): CourseTunnel | null` — The tunnel at path distance z: road-data's `tunnel` feature with its clearance (default 6 m), light (default 0.4) and walls (default solid), standing `gap` metres outside the road edges: the cross-section's shoulder, at least 0.5 m. - `patchesAt(seg: number): { from: number; to: number; surface: string }[] | null` — Surface patches drawn on a leg segment (null: none). - `seg(z: number): number` — Leg segment of a path distance. - `under(z: number): RoadUnder` — The road at path distance z. - `env(z: number, bounds: number, surfaces: { road?: string; off?: string; kerb?: number } = {}): RoadEnv` — vehicle-handling's environment at distance z plus hard lateral bounds `bounds` metres beyond the edges. ### `RoadRace` ```ts class RoadRace ``` A road race. Create with `createRoadRace(config)`. - `readonly config: RoadRaceConfig` — The configuration the race was built from. - `readonly course: Course` — The road being raced: its path, route legs and the road under the car. - `readonly field: DepthField` — The depth field holding every object on the road: scenery, traffic, rivals, the player and effects. - `vehicle: Vehicle` — The player's vehicle (a vehicle-handling vehicle). - `state: RaceState` — Everything the presenter reads; updated by each step. - `traffic: TrafficCar[]` — The live traffic cars. - `rivals: RivalCar[]` — The rival race cars. - `readonly spec: VehicleSpec` — The vehicle spec in use (difficulty assist applied). - `constructor(config: RoadRaceConfig)` - `start(): void` — Start (from attract): the start signals, then the race. - `tick(dt: number, input: RaceInput = {}): void` — Advance by `dt` seconds of wall time (fixed steps inside, at most 0.25 s per call). - `drain(): RaceEvent[]` — Events since the last drain. - `get leg(): Course["leg"]` — The route leg the presenter draws now (route options and per-segment data). - `get speedDisplay(): number` — Speed in the vehicle's display units (km/h, mph). - `scene(): RaceScene` — What to draw now (road-view-pseudo3d's RoadScene). - `resume(seconds: number): boolean` — Carry on after the clock ran out (a continue): from `time-up` or `over`, back to racing with `seconds` on the clock, where the car stands. Returns false in any other phase. - `step(input: RaceInput = {}): void` — One fixed step. - `crashInto(other: DepthObject, what = "other", classes?: CrashClass[]): boolean` — Crash into something the race does not own (rules layered on the race: an enemy car, a mine, a shell), by the same rules as a crash into scenery: the crash class by speed (`classes`, default `crash.scenery`), the crash sequence, the restart. Only while racing; returns whether a crash began. - `addScore(points: number): void` — Add points (rules layered on the race: a pursuit's hits and bonuses). Night Driver's bonus time and the wrap apply. - `snapshot(): RaceSnapshot` — A plain copy of the whole race. - `restore(s: RaceSnapshot): void` — Restore a snapshot taken from a race with the same config. ## Types ### `ByDifficulty` ```ts type ByDifficulty = T | { easy: T; normal: T; arcade: T } ``` A value, or one value per difficulty. ### `ClockDef` ```ts interface ClockDef ``` The clock. - `start: ByDifficulty` — Seconds at the start. - `max?: number` — Cap. Default none. - `countdown: number` — Seconds of start signals before the clock runs. - `lap?: ByDifficulty` — Seconds added per completed lap (circuits). - `scoreBonus?: { at: number; seconds: number | "start" } | null` — Night Driver: bonus seconds once the score reaches `at`. `seconds: 'start'` adds the starting time again. - `timeUp: "stop" | "coast"` — At zero: `stop` the car at once (Out Run sets the speed to 0) or `coast` to a stop. ### `CourseOptions` ```ts interface CourseOptions ``` Options for a course. - `segmentLength?: number` — route segment length (metres). Default 5. - `drawDistance?: number` — Segments drawn ahead. Default 240. - `conditions?: string[]` — Path conditions (switch on `when` surfaces, markers, scenery): Pole Position's `race` puddles. - `entry?: string` — A named entry of the road file (Night Driver's reverse track set). ### `CrashClass` ```ts interface CrashClass ``` One crash class, chosen by impact speed. - `below?: number` — Applies below this speed (m/s); the last class without `below` catches the rest. - `kind: CrashKind` — The kind of crash the presenter shows. - `time: number` — Seconds until the vehicle is back on the road. - `restart: "keep" | "centre"` — Where it restarts: where it stopped, or at the road centre. ### `CrashDef` ```ts interface CrashDef ``` Crash rules by what was hit. - `scenery: CrashClass[]` — Classes for hitting scenery, tried in order: the first whose `below` is above the impact speed applies. - `traffic?: CrashClass[]` — Traffic when `onHit` is `crash`. Default the scenery classes. - `rival?: CrashClass[]` — Rival race cars. Default the traffic classes. - `minSpeed?: number` — Below this speed a touch only stops you dead (no crash). Default 2 m/s. ### `CrashKind` ```ts type CrashKind = "bump" | "spin" | "flip" | "explode" | "fall" | "stop" ``` The kinds of crash, for the presenter. ### `CrashState` ```ts interface CrashState ``` A crash in progress. - `kind: CrashKind` — The kind of crash the presenter shows. - `age: number` — Seconds since impact. - `time: number` — Total seconds. - `side: number` — -1 left, 1 right: the side it went off to. - `speed: number` — Impact speed (m/s). - `with: string` — What was hit: `scenery`, `traffic`, `rival`. - `restart: "keep" | "centre"` — Where the vehicle restarts: `keep` where it stopped, or `centre` at the road centre. ### `Difficulty` ```ts type Difficulty = "easy" | "normal" | "arcade" ``` Difficulty levels: `arcade` is the original tables; `normal` (the gallery default) and `easy` are kinder. ### `HangOnOptions` ```ts interface HangOnOptions ``` Options for the bike presets. - `difficulty?: Difficulty` — The difficulty level. Default `normal`. - `seed?: number` — The config's seed. Default 1985 for Hang-On, 1987 for Super Hang-On. - `road?: RoadDocument` — Another road file; default road-data's `hang-on` (or `super-hang-on`). ### `NightDriverOptions` ```ts interface NightDriverOptions ``` Options for `nightDriverPreset`. - `difficulty?: Difficulty` — The difficulty level. Default `normal`. - `track?: NightDriverTrack` — Which track: `novice` (the default), `pro` or `expert`; harder tracks score faster. - `reverse?: boolean` — Drive the track in reverse. Default false. - `time?: number` — Playing time (s): 50, 75, 100 (factory) or 125. Default by difficulty. - `seed?: number` — The config's seed. Default 1976. - `road?: RoadDocument` — Another road file; default road-data's `night-driver` (entries `-1` and `-reverse`). ### `NightDriverTrack` ```ts type NightDriverTrack = "novice" | "pro" | "expert" ``` Night Driver's three tracks. ### `OutRunOptions` ```ts interface OutRunOptions ``` Options for `outRunPreset`. - `difficulty?: Difficulty` — The difficulty level. Default `normal`. - `seed?: number` — The config's seed. Default 1986. - `road?: RoadDocument` — Another road file (a user-drawn route map); default road-data's `out-run`. ### `PolePositionOptions` ```ts interface PolePositionOptions ``` Options for `polePositionPreset`. - `difficulty?: Difficulty` — The difficulty level. Default `normal`. - `seed?: number` — The config's seed. Default 1982. - `laps?: number` — Race laps: 3 (upright) or 4 (sit-down); any count works. - `rivals?: number` — Rival cars on the grid. Default 7. - `skipQualifying?: number | null` — Skip the qualifying lap (start on the grid in this slot). - `road?: RoadDocument` — Another circuit (a road file whose start section leads back to itself); default road-data's `pole-position-fuji`. ### `QualifyDef` ```ts interface QualifyDef ``` The qualifying lap (Pole Position). - `clock: ByDifficulty` — Clock for the qualifying lap (s). - `limit: ByDifficulty` — Lap time limit to qualify (s): the slowest grid time. - `grid: { time: number; bonus: number }[]` — Grid positions by lap time: within `time` gives that slot (first is pole) and its bonus. ### `RaceBookkeeping` ```ts interface RaceBookkeeping ``` A race's private bookkeeping, as a snapshot holds it: timers, score accumulators, flags and the random stream. Read it only to store it; `restore` puts it back. - `spawnTimer: number` — Seconds since the last traffic car came; one comes every `traffic.spawnEvery` seconds. - `scoreAcc: number` — Seconds of driving towards the next speed award (`scoring.speed.every`). - `distAcc: number` — Distance driven (m) towards the next distance award (`scoring.distance.every`). - `qualifyTime: number | null` — The qualifying lap's time in seconds, or null while the car has not qualified. - `passBonus: number` — Points earned by passing rivals, paid with the end-of-race bonus. - `smokeAcc: number` — Seconds towards the next puff of tyre smoke or dust; one comes every 0.08 s while the car skids. - `crashObjs: string[]` — Ids of the depth-field objects a crash scattered, cleared when the car is set back on the road. - `bonusDone: boolean` — The end-of-race bonus has been paid. - `overSaid: boolean` — The game-over event has been sent. - `goalDone: boolean` — The car has reached the course's goal. - `rng: number[]` — The seeded stream's four 32-bit words (a kernel `Rng` snapshot); drawing advances them in place, so a snapshot carries the stream. - `heading: number` — Heading of the road under the player, integrated along the course, radians. - `unwrapped: number` — The score before `scoring.wrap` folds it: extends and the top score count from it. - `pose: number` — The player's drawn turn or lean frame (held until the input moves clearly past the next frame). - `faces?: number` — Course z up to which tunnel mouths have been given their solid faces. ### `RaceEvent` ```ts type RaceEvent = | { type: "start" } | { type: "signal"; n: number; of: number } | { type: "go" } | { type: "stage"; id: string; name: string; number: number } | { type: "checkpoint"; id: string; added: number } | { type: "extend"; seconds: number } | { type: "fork"; side: number; to: string } | { type: "overtake"; id: string; points: number } | { type: "passed"; id: string } | { type: "rebound"; id: string } | { type: "crash"; kind: CrashKind; with: string; speed: number; /** What was hit: its field id, kind, position and drawn width (`vw`), and where the car was when they met (`carX` across the road, `carS` along it), partway through the step if it was thrown sideways. */ cause: { id: string; kind: string; x: number; z: number; w: number; vw: number; carX: number; carS: number }; } | { type: "crash-end" } | { type: "hazard"; kind: string } | { type: "lap"; lap: number; time: number; best: number } | { type: "qualified"; grid: number; time: number; bonus: number } | { type: "not-qualified"; time: number | null } | { type: "race-start" } | { type: "time-up" } | { type: "goal"; id: string; letter: string; name: string } | { type: "bonus"; points: number } | { type: "finish"; position: number | null } | { type: "game-over" } | { type: "complete" } | { type: "vehicle"; event: string } ``` Events for the presenter and sound. ### `RaceInput` ```ts interface RaceInput ``` What the player does this step. - `throttle?: number` — 0..1. - `brake?: number` — 0..1. - `steer?: number` — -1 (left) .. 1 (right). - `gear?: number | "up" | "down"` — A gear index or a shift. - `boost?: boolean` — Turbo (Super Hang-On). ### `RacePhase` ```ts type RacePhase = "attract" | "countdown" | "racing" | "crashed" | "time-up" | "qualified" | "goal" | "over" | "complete" ``` Phases of a race. ### `RaceScene` ```ts interface RaceScene ``` What `scene()` returns: the data road-view-pseudo3d (or any presenter) draws. Structural, no view import. - `road: PseudoRoad` — The route road to draw: the current leg's PseudoRoad. - `zBase: number` — Course distance of the road's z 0, metres: the start of the current leg. - `focus: { z: number; x: number }` — What the camera follows: the player's vehicle (course z of its centre, lateral x). - `field: DepthField` — Everything standing on the road: scenery, traffic, rivals, the player's vehicle and effects. - `branches: (segment: number) => readonly number[] | null` — Strip offsets of a segment where the road has split, in route world units, or null for one centred road. - `width: (segment: number) => number` — The road's half-width at a segment as a factor of the base road width. - `lanes: (segment: number) => number` — Number of lanes on a segment. - `surfaces: (segment: number) => readonly { from: number; to: number; surface: string }[] | null` — Surface patches on a segment (puddles, oil) for the presenter to paint. - `tunnel: (segment: number) => { ceiling: number; light: number; gap: number } | null` — The tunnel over a segment (road-data `tunnel` features): clearance, light, the gap to its walls. - `heading: number` — Heading of the road under the camera, integrated, radians: horizon backdrops scroll with it. - `style: string` — The look of the road under the player, a presenter style name: its look key, else its region id, else the stage id. ### `RaceSnapshot` ```ts interface RaceSnapshot ``` A complete saved race: plain data. - `state: RaceState` — The state the presenter reads. - `internal: RaceBookkeeping` — The race's private bookkeeping: spawn timer, score and distance accumulators, crash objects, the random stream and the like. - `vehicle: VehicleSnapshot` — The player's vehicle. - `field: DepthFieldSnapshot` — The depth field holding the scenery, traffic, rivals and effects. - `traffic: TrafficCar[]` — The traffic cars. - `rivals: RivalCar[]` — The rival race cars. - `events: RaceEvent[]` — Events raised and not yet drained. - `acc: number` — Seconds of time carried towards the next fixed step. - `path: PathSnapshot` — The path along the road: where it has been laid and the forks decided. - `conditions: string[]` — The path conditions in force (Pole Position's `race` puddles). ### `RaceState` ```ts interface RaceState ``` The race state the presenter reads. - `phase: RacePhase` — Where the race is: `attract` before `start`, then `countdown`, `racing`, `crashed`, `time-up`, `qualified` (the qualifying lap is done), `goal` (the goal sequence), and at the end `over` (game over) or `complete`. - `phaseTime: number` — Seconds in this phase. - `time: number` — Seconds left on the clock. - `score: number` — Points so far. - `topScore: number` — Highest score seen by this race object (and any restored into it). - `stage: string` — Current stage id, name, 1-based number in the route (column), and the stages taken. - `stageName: string` — The display name of the current stage. - `stageNumber: number` — The current stage's number in the route: its 1-based column in the route map. - `route: string[]` — The ids of the stages taken so far, in order. - `distance: number` — Course distance of the player (metres). - `lap: number` — Laps completed (circuits) and the race length. - `laps: number` — The race length in laps; 0 on a route that is not a circuit. - `lapTime: number` — Current lap time and the last and best lap. - `lastLap: number | null` — Seconds the last completed lap took; null before the first. - `bestLap: number | null` — Seconds of the fastest lap so far; null before the first. - `session: "qualify" | "race" | "route"` — `qualify` or `race` on a circuit; `route` otherwise. - `grid: number | null` — Grid slot (1 = pole) after qualifying. - `position: number | null` — Race position among rivals (1 = leading). - `passed: number` — Cars passed (Pole Position's bonus counts them). - `signal: number` — Countdown signal index (0..n) while counting down. - `crash: CrashState | null` — The crash in progress, or null. - `ending: { id: string; letter: string; name: string } | null` — Ending reached (goal id) and its letter/name. - `sinceExtend: number` — Seconds since the last time extension (for the EXTEND TIME flash), Infinity if none. - `extended: number` — The last extension in seconds. - `heading: number` — Heading of the road under the camera, integrated (radians): horizon backdrops scroll with it. - `fork: { progress: number; side: number; decided: number } | null` — Fork in progress: 0..1 through the widen, the side it would pick now, decided side. ### `RivalCar` ```ts interface RivalCar ``` A rival race car. - `id: string` — The id of its field object. - `kind: string` — Its traffic kind's `kind` name, which is also the sprite kind of its field object. - `z: number` — Course distance, metres. - `x: number` — Lateral position, metres. - `speed: number` — Current speed, m/s. - `top: number` — Its top speed, m/s: it never aims above it. - `target: number` — The lateral position, metres, its racing line is steering to. - `ahead: boolean` — Was ahead of the player last step (pass detection). - `practice: boolean` — Practice car on the qualifying lap. ### `RivalDef` ```ts interface RivalDef ``` Rival race cars (Pole Position): a grid, a racing line, braking for corners. - `count: number` — Grid cars in the race (the player takes one more slot). - `kinds: TrafficKind[]` — The kinds of car on the grid, chosen by their `weight`. - `spacing: number` — Metres between grid rows. - `stagger: number` — Lateral stagger of grid columns (metres). - `accel: number` — Acceleration and braking (m/s^2). - `brake: number` — Braking deceleration (m/s^2). - `grip: number` — Lateral grip a rival uses for its corner speed (m/s^2): lower is more cautious. - `pass: number` — Points per car passed (Pole Position: 50, added at the end). - `practice: number` — Slow cars on the qualifying lap. - `practiceSpeed: [number, number]` — Their speed range on the qualifying lap (m/s). ### `RoadRaceConfig` ```ts interface RoadRaceConfig ``` A whole road race. - `name: string` — Shown in a panel. - `difficulty: Difficulty` — The difficulty level: picks the value of every `ByDifficulty` setting and sets the assist on the player's vehicle. - `seed: number` — Seed of the race's random stream (traffic spawns and lanes, rivals, crash scatter): the same seed gives the same race. - `road: RoadDocument` — The road: a road-data file (forks, merges, regions with scenery pools, surfaces, markers). The race reads `checkpoint` markers (`data.time`: seconds added, a number or one per difficulty), `goal` markers (`data.ending`), `lap` markers (circuits: a section whose successor is itself) and the file's kinds (collision widths). - `entry?: string` — A named entry of the road file to start from (Night Driver's tracks and reverse sets). - `segmentLength?: number` — route segment length (metres). Default 5. - `drawDistance?: number` — Segments drawn ahead. Default 240. - `announce?: boolean` — Announce entering a section (stage banner). Default true. - `surfaceSpecs?: Record` — Extra vehicle-handling surfaces the road file names (Pole Position's `puddle`). - `vehicle: VehicleSpec` — The player's handling (a vehicle-handling preset). Difficulty assist is applied by the race. - `assist?: boolean` — Apply vehicle-handling's assist for the difficulty. Default true. - `surfaces?: { road?: string; off?: string; kerb?: number }` — Override the road file's carriageway and off-road surfaces (vehicle-handling ids), and a kerb width. - `bounds?: number` — Lateral limit beyond each road edge (metres). Default the vehicle's road.bounds or 12. - `player: { kind: string; w: number; h: number; d: number; hit?: number }` — The player's object in the field: its sprite kind, drawn width `w`, and the box that collides (`hit` wide, default `w`; Out Run tests contact at the Ferrari's centre line, so its `hit` is narrow). - `clock: ClockDef` — The time limit: start time, extensions and what happens at zero. - `traffic?: TrafficDef | null` — Cars in lanes on the road. Default none. - `rivals?: RivalDef | null` — Rival race cars on a grid (a circuit race). Default none. - `qualify?: QualifyDef | null` — The qualifying lap before a circuit race. Default none: the race starts at once. - `laps?: number` — Race laps (circuits). - `crash: CrashDef` — What happens to the player's vehicle when it hits something, by what was hit. - `scoring: ScoringDef` — How points are scored. - `kinds: Record` — Kinds the race spawns itself (crash objects, smoke): sizes. Roadside kinds come from the road file. - `endings?: Record` — Endings by goal id. - `goalTime?: number` — Seconds of the goal sequence before the end bonus. Default 4. - `steering?: { rampIn?: number; bendCut?: { above: number; kappa: number; cut: number } }` — Steering rules outside the vehicle (Out Run, Cannonball set_ferrari_x): `rampIn` metres at the start of stage 1 over which steering grows from nothing; `bendCut` reduces steering by up to `cut` on bends of curvature `kappa` or tighter above speed `above` (m/s), scaled by how far above it the car is. ### `RoadUnder` ```ts interface RoadUnder ``` The road under the car this step. - `curvature: number` — Curvature of the road, 1/m; positive bends right. - `grade: number` — Slope of the road: rise over run. - `halfWidth: number` — Half the carriageway width, metres. - `left: number` — Outer tarmac edges of the road being driven (every strip before a fork decision). - `right: number` — Lateral position of the right outer tarmac edge, metres. - `lanes: number` — Number of lanes. - `section: string` — Section id (a connector's id inside a fork). - `sample: RoadSample` — The full sample. ### `SceneryKind` ```ts interface SceneryKind ``` A kind of object the race itself spawns (crash debris, thrown occupants, smoke): its size. Roadside scenery kinds live in the road file (road-data `kinds`, with their drawn and collision widths). - `w: number` — Drawn width (metres). - `hit?: number` — Collision width (metres). Default `w`. - `h: number` — Height (metres). - `d?: number` — Depth along the road (metres). Default min(w, h). - `solid?: boolean` — Touching it is a crash. Default true. - `span?: boolean` — Spans the road. - `y?: number` — Height of its base above the road (metres). Default 0. - `data?: Record` — Plain values handed to the presenter (art hints). ### `ScoringDef` ```ts interface ScoringDef ``` Scoring. - `speed?: { every: number; step: number; points: number[]; onRoadOnly?: boolean } | null` — Out Run: every `every` s on the road, points[floor(speed / step)]. - `distance?: { every: number; points: number; anywhere?: boolean } | null` — Points per distance: `points` every `every` metres (on the road only unless `anywhere`). - `timeBonus?: { unit: number; points: number } | null` — End bonus per unit of time left: `points` per `unit` seconds (Out Run 100,000 per 0.1 s; Pole Position 200 per s). - `wrap?: number` — The score wraps at this value (Night Driver: 1000). ### `SuperHangOnCourse` ```ts type SuperHangOnCourse = keyof typeof SUPER_HANG_ON_COURSES ``` A Super Hang-On course id. ### `SuperHangOnOptions` ```ts interface SuperHangOnOptions extends HangOnOptions ``` Options for `superHangOnPreset`. - `course?: SuperHangOnCourse` — Which continent to race: `africa` (the default), `asia`, `america` or `europe`. ### `TrafficCar` ```ts interface TrafficCar ``` A traffic car (rules state; its body is field object `id`). - `id: string` — The id of its field object. - `kind: string` — Its traffic kind's `kind` name, which is also the sprite kind of its field object. - `z: number` — Course z and lateral position in the current leg's frame. - `x: number` — Lateral position, metres, in the current leg's frame. - `lane: number` — Target lane and the lane position it is gliding through. - `lanePos: number` — The lane position it is gliding through (fractional between lanes; 0 is the leftmost lane). - `speed: number` — Current speed, m/s. - `cruise: number` — The speed it picked at spawn and returns to after slowing, m/s. - `hit: boolean` — Already rebounded off the player (one rebound per car). - `ahead: boolean` — Has been ahead of the player (a pass only counts then). - `weaveIn?: number` — Seconds until this car next weaves to another lane (`TrafficDef.weave`). ### `TrafficDef` ```ts interface TrafficDef ``` Traffic in lanes (Out Run's cars and trucks, Hang-On's rival riders), from Cannonball's OTraffic. - `kinds: TrafficKind[]` — The kinds of vehicle that spawn, chosen by their `weight`. - `max: ByDifficulty` — Cap on live traffic by stage column (stage number - 1; the last entry repeats), by difficulty. - `capScale?: number` — Multiplier on `max`. A source table counts cars that live from the horizon to the player for as long as the source's projection keeps them; at true scale a car spawned `spawnAhead` metres away lives longer, so the same passing rate needs proportionally more cars on the road. Default 1. - `spawnInSplit?: boolean` — Spawn on a road that is splitting too (Out Run spawns throughout the split). Default true. - `spawnEvery: number` — Seconds between spawn attempts. - `spawnAhead: number` — Spawn distance ahead of the player (metres): "on the horizon". - `despawnAhead: number` — A car this far ahead (receding: it is faster than you) is removed. - `near: number` — A car with the player closer behind than this (metres) and within `nearX` laterally moves out of the way. - `nearX: number` — Lateral window for `near` (metres). - `laneSpeed: number` — Lateral speed of a lane change (m/s). - `hemmed: number` — Speed a hemmed-in car drops to at least (m/s): it matches the car beside it. - `recover: number` — How fast a car returns to its cruising speed (m/s^2). - `overtake: number` — Points when you pass a car. - `quietStart?: number` — No collisions in the first metres of the course (Out Run: the start grid). Default 0. - `onHit: "rebound" | "crash"` — What hitting one does: Out Run rebounds, Hang-On crashes. - `rebound?: { drop: number; time: number; push: number }` — Rebound: speed becomes the traffic's speed minus `drop` (m/s), a skid for `time` s pushing away at `push` m/s. - `initial?: [number, number][]` — Start traffic already on the road at the start: [z, lane] pairs (Out Run's stage 1 grid cars). - `weave?: { every: [number, number] } | null` — Cars that weave: each car changes to a free neighbouring lane at random, waiting a random `every` seconds (min, max) between changes (Chase H.Q.). Default none: cars keep their lane unless the player closes on them. ### `TrafficKind` ```ts interface TrafficKind ``` A kind of traffic vehicle or rival. - `kind: string` — Sprite kind of its field object (the presenter's art key), such as `"truck"`. - `w: number` — Collision box (metres). - `h: number` — Collision box height (metres). - `d: number` — Collision box depth along the road (metres). - `vw?: number` — Drawn width (metres) when the art is drawn wider than the box (Chase H.Q. draws traffic about 1.4 times true scale). Default `w`. - `weight?: number` — Relative frequency. Default 1. - `speed: [number, number]` — Cruising speed range (m/s): each car picks one. --- ## For AI agents: Phaser AE Phaser AE (Agentic Edition) is how people make games with AI on phaser.io. 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