ludic/docs/language/scenes/kw-scene.md

id	name	category	kind	tokens	sig	tip	order
kw-scene	scene	scenes	keyword	scene	scene Name [start] { on enter{} on exit{} layer … }	A mutually-exclusive game state — a title screen, the overworld, a battle.	0

A scene is one of the mutually-exclusive states a game moves between — a title screen, the overworld, a battle, a shop. Exactly one scene is active at a time, and only the active scene's layer handlers run each phase; handlers declared outside any scene are global and run every frame regardless. A scene may carry an on enter / on exit pair of lifecycle hooks and one or more layer blocks that group its handlers. Under the hood a scene lowers to an implicit state machine the compiler writes for you (scenes number themselves by declaration order), so become from one scene to another costs two direct calls and a register store — no dispatch table.

program SceneExample {
  var elapsed_frames: int = 0

  scene Title start {
    on enter { elapsed_frames = 0 }
    layer Main {
      handler WaitForStart phase Update {
        elapsed_frames = elapsed_frames + 1
        if Input.key() != 0 { become Overworld }
      }
      handler DrawTitle phase Render {
        Screen.clear(Color.MidnightBlue)
        Screen.draw_text(x: 60, y: 100, text: "PRESS ANY KEY", color: Color.White, scale: 1)
        Screen.show()
      }
    }
  }

  scene Overworld {
    on enter { elapsed_frames = 0 }
    layer World {
      handler DrawWorld phase Render {
        Screen.clear(Color.MidnightBlue)
        Screen.fill_rectangle(x: 80, y: 80, width: 16, height: 16, color: Color.LimeGreen)
        Screen.show()
      }
    }
  }
}