--- title: "Role-playing game: API" package: "@phaser-ae/rpg" tier: Pro version: 3.0.0-4 released: 2026-10-14 updated: 2026-10-19 description: "Plays a world document as a complete small role-playing game, with an overworld, towns, fog-of-war dungeons, turn-based battles, quests, shops, inns and saves, and no game code." url: https://phaser.io/packs/rpg/api site: Phaser - https://phaser.io --- # Role-playing game: API `@phaser-ae/rpg` — Plays a world document as a whole small RPG: overworld, towns, fog-of-war dungeons, turn-based battles, quests, shops, inns and saves. ## The pack ### `rpg` ```ts function rpg(options: RpgPackOptions = {}): Pack<{ rpg: RpgApi }> ``` The rpg pack: `game.rpg`, and the scenes `title`, `overworld`, `town`, `dungeon`, `crawl`, `battle`, `dialogue`, `shop`, `inn`, `menu`, `ending`, `gameover` (each renamed by `options.scenes`). Requires the packs it drives to be composed before it; see the docs page for the list. Headless it runs in full: the art registers blank and the pad reads nothing. ## Helpers ### `BIOME_BACKDROP` ```ts const BIOME_BACKDROP: Readonly> ``` Battle backdrop colour per built-in biome. ### `CLASS_COLOR` ```ts const CLASS_COLOR: Readonly> ``` Colour of each built-in hero class, for plates and figures. ### `DEFAULT_FONTS` ```ts const DEFAULT_FONTS: Readonly> ``` The default faces, as CSS fonts. ### `DEFAULT_KEYS` ```ts const DEFAULT_KEYS: Readonly> ``` The default key codes per button; the touch pack presses the `Touch:` ones. ### `DEFAULT_PAD` ```ts const DEFAULT_PAD: Readonly> ``` The default gamepad buttons per button (the sticks also steer). ### `deliverItemFor` ```ts function deliverItemFor(world: World, quest: Quest, step: number, held: (id: string) => number): string | null ``` The item a deliver step hands over when it names none: the nearest earlier fetch step's item, else the nearest earlier kill step's monster drop, else the first quest item held. Null means the step is a plain talk. ### `ELEMENT_COLOR` ```ts const ELEMENT_COLOR: Readonly> ``` Colour of each built-in element, for tints, bars and monster bodies. ### `palette` ```ts function palette(c: RpgColours = {}): Palette ``` The palette for a game's colours over the built-in ones. ### `resolveOptions` ```ts function resolveOptions(o: RpgOptions = {}): Resolved ``` Fill in the defaults. Throws on two scenes given one name. ### `ROLE_COLOR` ```ts const ROLE_COLOR: Readonly> ``` Colour of each built-in npc role, for their figures. ### `RPG_SCENES` ```ts const RPG_SCENES: readonly RpgSceneKey[] ``` Every scene the player registers. ### `THEME` ```ts const THEME: Readonly> ``` What the dungeon tiles of each built-in theme look like. ## Types ### `BattleRequest` ```ts interface BattleRequest ``` A battle asked for by a map scene. - `monsterIds: string[]` — Monster ids, in the order they stand. - `backdrop: string` — Backdrop colour. - `onEnd(result: 'win' | 'lose' | 'flee'): void` — Called once the battle scene pops. ### `Btn` ```ts type Btn = 'up' | 'down' | 'left' | 'right' | 'confirm' | 'cancel' ``` The player's buttons. ### `EncounterOptions` ```ts interface EncounterOptions ``` Random encounters in the wilds. - `groups?: readonly (readonly [number, number])[]` — How many foes come, as [count, weight] pairs. Default 1 (45), 2 (40), 3 (15). - `cooldown?: number` — Steps after a battle before the next can happen. Default 4. - `safeRadius?: number` — No encounters within this many cells of a town or dungeon. Default 3. ### `FontKey` ```ts type FontKey = 'body' | 'big' | 'small' | 'title' ``` The faces the player draws its text in. ### `LoadOptions` ```ts interface LoadOptions ``` What `load` takes beside the world. - `assets?: Record` — Portrait id → image URL (blob:, data:, https:). Ids the world does not name are ignored. - `save?: unknown | null` — A save from `save()` to resume; null or absent starts fresh. A save for another world is ignored. ### `Palette` ```ts interface Palette ``` The colours of a world's vocabularies: the game's, then the built-in ones, then one made from the name. - `element(e: string): string` — An element's colour. - `cls(c: string): string` — A hero class's colour. - `role(r: string): string` — An npc role's colour. - `biome(b: string): string` — A biome's battle backdrop. - `theme(t: string): ThemeColours` — A dungeon theme's colours. ### `Resolved` ```ts interface Resolved ``` Options with every default filled in. - `raw: RpgOptions` — As given. - `vocab: WorldVocabulary` — The world vocabulary. - `scenes: Record` — Scene names. - `keys: Record` — Key codes per button. - `pad: Record` — Pad buttons per button. - `fonts: Record` — CSS fonts. - `encounters: Required` — Encounters. - `maxFoes: number` — Most foes a battle. - `hint: string` — The title's controls line. - `look: { panel: string; row: string; bar: string }` — The furniture's styles. - `transition: { kind: string; duration: number; color: string } | null` — The map-to-map cover, or null to cut. ### `RpgApi` ```ts interface RpgApi ``` What `game.rpg` presents. - `host(game: RpgHost, options?: RpgOptions): void` — Hand the pack the composed game it drives, and the rules that are code (map generators, battle rules, skill effects, the party's curve). Call once, before `load`. The pack reaches every other pack only through this. - `load(world: unknown, opts?: LoadOptions): void` — Clean a world document, build its maps, restore a save if given, and (re)start at the title. - `start(): void` — Go to the title; `load` does this itself once the game is running. - `newGame(): void` — Start a new game at once, skipping the title (for a game with a title screen of its own). - `resume(): boolean` — Continue the saved game, skipping the title; false when there is none. - `fight(monsterIds: readonly string[], onEnd?: (result: 'win' | 'lose' | 'flee') => void, backdrop?: string): boolean` — Start a battle now against these monsters (ids from the world), over the current map scene: a scripted ambush, a boss a game's own event calls. `onEnd` hears the result once the battle scene has gone. False when no game is being played or no id names a monster. - `save(): unknown | null` — The run as JSON, or null before a world is loaded. - `onEvent(fn: (e: RpgEvent) => void): () => void` — Hear what happens; returns the unsubscribe. - `readonly state: RpgState` — A snapshot for the page. - `readonly world: World | null` — The clean world in play, or null. - `readonly maps: WorldMaps | null` — Its maps, or null. - `readonly run: Run | null` — The run in play, or null: its `party` and `quests` are the live Party and QuestLog. - `scene(key: RpgSceneKey): string` — The scene name the player uses for a scene. - `mapsOf(world: unknown): WorldMaps` — Every map of any world document, without loading it, cleaned and built with the options given to `host`. ### `RpgColours` ```ts interface RpgColours ``` Colours for the world's vocabularies; a name with none gets a colour from its name. - `elements?: Readonly>` — Per element (tints, monster bodies). - `classes?: Readonly>` — Per hero class (plates and figures). - `roles?: Readonly>` — Per npc role (figures). - `biomes?: Readonly>` — Per biome (the battle backdrop). - `themes?: Readonly>` — Per dungeon theme. ### `RpgEvent` ```ts type RpgEvent = | { type: 'scene'; scene: string; regionId?: string } | { type: 'talk'; npcId: string } | { type: 'quest'; id: string; status: 'started' | 'done' } | { type: 'battle'; monsterIds: string[]; result?: 'win' | 'lose' | 'flee' } | { type: 'level'; heroId: string; level: number } | { type: 'item'; id: string; how: 'found' | 'bought' | 'drop' | 'reward' } | { type: 'ending' } | { type: 'log'; text: string } ``` What the bundle and the page hear. ### `RpgHost` ```ts interface RpgHost extends GameBase ``` The composed game the pack drives: the kernel's face plus every pack it composes with. - `spawn(spec: SpawnSpec & { anims?: Record; brain?: Brain }): Handle` — The full spawn, with anims and a brain. - `world: World2dApi` — The top-down world. - `screen: ScreenApi` — The screen-space world. - `typography: TypographyApi` — Bitmap text. - `tiles: Tiles2dApi` — Tilemaps. - `fsm: FsmApi` — State machines for npcs and monsters. - `fog: FogApi` — Fog of war grids. - `save: SaveApi` — The save store. - `sound: SoundApi` — The synth. - `feel: FeelApi` — Shake, flash, hit-stop. - `rig: RigApi` — The follow camera. - `art2d: Art2dApi` — Procedural art. - `ui: UiApi` — Panels and the menu cursor. - `bars: BarsApi` — The meters. - `dialogue: DialogueApi` — The speech box. - `transition: TransitionApi` — Covers between map scenes. - `lights?: Lighting2dApi` — 2D lights, when composed (WebGPU only). - `vector?: Vector2dApi` — Line art and faces, when composed (WebGPU only): the first-person lens needs it. ### `RpgOptions` ```ts interface RpgOptions extends RpgPackOptions, RunOptions ``` What `game.rpg.host(game, options)` takes: the pack's options and the rules that are code. - `maps?: MapOptions` — The map generators: biome rules, town templates, terrain, the overworld's and floors' sizes. - `battle?: Partial` — The battle's rules over `turn-battle`'s; the element wheel defaults to the world's. - `skillEffects?: Readonly>` — Skill effects of a game's own, by the name a skill's `effect` uses. - `foeChoice?: (battle: Battle, actor: Fighter) => BattleAction` — How foes choose their action. Default: attack a random standing hero. ### `RpgPackOptions` ```ts interface RpgPackOptions ``` What the pack factory takes (`rpg(options)`, or the manifest): plain data. - `scenes?: Partial>` — Scene names, for a game that has a `title` or `gameover` of its own. Only here: scenes are registered at compose time. - `keys?: Partial>` — Key codes per button, replacing the defaults for the buttons given. - `padButtons?: Partial>` — Gamepad buttons per button, replacing the defaults for the buttons given. - `fonts?: Partial>` — CSS fonts, replacing the defaults for the faces given. - `colours?: RpgColours` — Colours for the vocabularies. - `encounters?: EncounterOptions` — Random encounters. - `maxFoes?: number` — The most foes in one battle; the battle screen lays them out across its left side. Default 4. - `hint?: string` — The controls line on the title screen. - `look?: 'rpg' | 'theme'` — What the furniture wears: `'rpg'` (default) is the player's own dark-and-gold panels, cursor, meters and speech box; `'theme'` follows the game's `ui` theme (`game.ui.theme`, a `ui-skins` skin): its panel and selected-row roles, glossy meters, and the theme's own speech box. - `styles?: { panel?: string; row?: string; bar?: string }` — Individual styles over the look: a `ui` style for panels and the selected row, a `bars` style for meters. - `speech?: { preset?: string; theme?: Readonly> }` — The speech box: a `dialogue` preset (a procedural one, or an illustrated one listed in the dialogue pack's options) and theme tokens over it. - `transition?: { kind?: string; duration?: number; color?: string } | false` — Scene changes between maps: a `transition` cover (`kind`, `duration` in seconds, `color`), or false to cut. Default a 0.3 s fade. - `startGold?: number` — Gold at the start of a new game. Default 50. - `world?: WorldOptions` — The world document's caps and vocabularies (biomes, classes, elements, item kinds, step kinds…). ### `RpgSceneKey` ```ts type RpgSceneKey = 'title' | 'overworld' | 'town' | 'dungeon' | 'crawl' | 'battle' | 'dialogue' | 'shop' | 'inn' | 'menu' | 'ending' | 'gameover' ``` The scenes the player registers. ### `RpgState` ```ts interface RpgState ``` A snapshot of the run for a page to read. - `scene: string` — The current scene name, '' before the title. - `regionId: string | null` — The region the party is in, or null. - `level: number` — The party leader's level. - `gold: number` — Gold held. - `questsDone: string[]` — Finished quest ids. - `playing: boolean` — True from the title until the ending has played. ### `Run` ```ts interface Run ``` The whole run. - `title: string` — The world's title, so a save is matched to its world. - `party: Party` — Heroes, levels, gear, the bag and gold. - `quests: QuestLog` — The quests. - `flags: RunFlags` — Bookkeeping. - `where: Where` — The party's position. ### `RunFlags` ```ts interface RunFlags ``` Bookkeeping that is neither the party's nor the quests'. - `talked: Record` — Times each npc was spoken to. - `cleared: Record` — Dungeons whose boss is beaten, by region id. - `chests: Record` — Chests opened, keyed `${regionId}:${floor}`. - `doors: Record` — Dungeon doors opened, keyed `${regionId}:${floor}:${col},${row}`. - `slain: Record` — Monsters beaten in dungeons, keyed `${regionId}:${floor}:${index}`. - `knownWeak: Record` — Monsters whose weakness has been found, by monster id. - `seen: Record` — Regions the party has stood in. - `ended: boolean` — The ending has played. - `steps: number` — Steps taken, for the encounter clock. ### `RunOptions` ```ts interface RunOptions ``` How a run's rules are set beyond the world document. - `party?: Pick` — The party's rules: equipment slots, the level curve, growth, consumables, the shop, the bag. - `questRules?: Readonly>` — Quest step rules for step kinds of a game's own. - `startGold?: number` — Gold at the start of a new game. Default 50. ### `RunSave` ```ts interface RunSave ``` A run as it is saved. - `v: 2` — Save format version. - `title: string` — The world's title. - `party: PartySnapshot` — The party's snapshot. - `quests: QuestState` — The quest log's state. - `flags: RunFlags` — Bookkeeping. - `where: Where` — The party's position. ### `ThemeColours` ```ts interface ThemeColours ``` How a dungeon theme is drawn. - `wall: string` — Wall tiles. - `floor: string` — Floor tiles. - `ambient: string` — The 2D lights' ambient. - `torch: string` — The torch. - `backdrop: string` — The battle backdrop. ### `Where` ```ts interface Where ``` Where the party is. - `scene: 'overworld' | 'town' | 'dungeon'` — Which kind of map. - `regionId: string | null` — The region, for town and dungeon; the region under the party on the overworld. - `col: number` — Tile column; -1 is the scene's own start (the town's start, beside the town's door), -2 beside the dungeon's. - `row: number` — Tile row. - `facing: number` — Facing: 0 right, 1 down, 2 left, 3 up. - `floor: number` — Dungeon floor index. --- ## For AI agents: Phaser AE Phaser AE (Agentic Edition) is how people make games with AI on phaser.io. 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