Gore opens in the gore, the theme comes back, and every mode gets a board

Splatter gore no longer makes you win a game of tennis first — the mode you
pick is the mode you get, with the man you came to play already turned. The
transition itself is untouched and still reachable; it just isn't a toll booth.

The menu theme could only ever be started, never brought back, so the first
run of a session silenced it for good while the court's ambience followed you
into the menu. Starting a bed now un-ducks it too.

Three world boards instead of one: kills, opponents felled, and games taken
off the CPU, each with its own name prompt and its own row per player.

...and the gore economy stops paying a barrel for every game won past game 16,
while the shamblers, the mix and the ball machines keep escalating past the
point they all used to stop.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

src/main.js

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 
 import { TUNE, COURTS, TOURS, MODES, MENU, DIFFS, EATEN_RESTART, DONE_RESTART, WEAPONS, bossArt, CUP_ROUNDS, matchFoe } from './config.js';
 import { P, O, ball, score, G, setupPoint, selectCourt, selectTour } from './state.js';
-import { update, restartRun, keyPressed, solveShot, inServeBox, inCourt, forceZombies, splatPoint, deliverTin, selectWeapon, grantWeapon, showModal, dismissModal, flickTarget, dragServe, toggleTestMode } from './gameplay.js';
+import { update, restartRun, keyPressed, solveShot, inServeBox, inCourt, forceZombies, startGore, splatPoint, deliverTin, selectWeapon, grantWeapon, showModal, dismissModal, flickTarget, dragServe, toggleTestMode } from './gameplay.js';
 import { startDuel, resolveInterlude, startBossFight, endBossFight, startDrill, endDrill, startMatch, endMatch, startBench, endBench, FALL, benchFall, startNetVs } from './beats.js';
 import { netConnect, netHooks } from './net.js';
 import { fitViewport, render, proj, RES, SPRV, LOAD, SPR } from './render.js';
@@ -283,6 +283,12 @@ document.getElementById('brBack').addEventListener('click', () => {
 });
 document.getElementById('cupGo').addEventListener('click', () => start('cup'));
 
+// Which RECORD BOOK a run mode writes to. The four run modes share three books — the arcade ladder
+// and the tournament are both zombie tennis and are counted together (see the record-shape note in
+// stats.endRun). Lived inline in three places before the world board grew tabs of its own.
+const boardFor = m => m === 'zombie' || m === 'cup' ? stats.MODE_MATCH
+  : m === 'classic' ? stats.MODE_CLASSIC : stats.MODE_GORE;
+
 // what the setup footer says you are about to play, and what it is worth beating
 function summary() {
   const t = TOURS.find(x => x.id === pickedTour) || TOURS[0];
@@ -291,9 +297,7 @@ function summary() {
   // the mark to beat is the PICKED MODE's own, because the three of them do not measure the same
   // thing — see the record-shape note in stats.endRun. The cup banks through endRun as MODE_MATCH
   // (see cupWon), so its summary reads the same book it writes.
-  const mode = m.id === 'zombie' || m.id === 'cup' ? stats.MODE_MATCH
-    : m.id === 'classic' ? stats.MODE_CLASSIC : stats.MODE_GORE;
-  const best = stats.read('all', undefined, mode).longest;
+  const best = stats.read('all', undefined, boardFor(m.id)).longest;
   const unit = m.id === 'zombie' || m.id === 'cup' ? ' FELLED'
     : best === 1 ? ' GAME' : ' GAMES';
   const name = m.id === 'classic'
@@ -330,6 +334,7 @@ function start(modeId = pickedMode) {
   G.classic = modeId === 'classic';
   // the difficulty rides on G like G.classic does, so a mid-run restart keeps the CPU you chose
   G.diff = G.classic ? (DIFFS.find(d => d.id === pickedDiff) || DIFFS[1]) : null;
+  if (modeId === 'gore') startGore();   // no tennis prologue: the mode you picked is the mode you get
   if (modeId === 'zombie') { intoSplatter(); startMatch(); }
   // ...and the cup carries the draw the bracket screen just made. Null (the #cup back door) still
   // means "roll it yourself", which is what the mode did before the screen existed.
@@ -339,8 +344,7 @@ let stPeriod = 'all', stMode = stats.MODE_GORE;
 // the stats screen opens on the mode you last PICKED to play — that is the one whose numbers you
 // came to look at, and it saves a tap on the way in every single time
 const openStats = () => {
-  stMode = pickedMode === 'zombie' || pickedMode === 'cup' ? stats.MODE_MATCH
-    : pickedMode === 'classic' ? stats.MODE_CLASSIC : stats.MODE_GORE;
+  stMode = boardFor(pickedMode);
   for (const el of document.getElementById('stModes').children) el.classList.toggle('on', el.dataset.m === stMode);
   stats.drawStats(stPeriod, SPRV, stMode); go('stats');
 };
@@ -348,17 +352,34 @@ const openStats = () => {
 const goMode = () => { buildTops(); go('mode'); };
 document.getElementById('mStart').addEventListener('click', goMode);
 document.getElementById('mStats').addEventListener('click', openStats);
-document.getElementById('mRanks').addEventListener('click', () => { go('ranks'); stats.drawRanks(); });
+// the world board opens on the mode you last PICKED, like the stats screen does — that is the one
+// whose names you came to look at
+let rkMode = stats.MODE_GORE;
+const openRanks = () => {
+  rkMode = boardFor(pickedMode);
+  for (const el of document.getElementById('rkModes').children) el.classList.toggle('on', el.dataset.m === rkMode);
+  go('ranks'); stats.drawRanks(null, rkMode);
+};
+document.getElementById('mRanks').addEventListener('click', openRanks);
+document.getElementById('rkModes').addEventListener('click', e => {
+  const b = e.target.closest('button'); if (!b) return;
+  rkMode = b.dataset.m;
+  for (const el of e.currentTarget.children) el.classList.toggle('on', el === b);
+  stats.drawRanks(null, rkMode);
+});
 
-// --- THE NAME PROMPT. It appears on exactly one occasion: a run that beat your own best kill
-// count, on the tap that takes you off the death screen. Anything more often is a form standing
-// between you and the next match.
+// --- THE NAME PROMPT. It appears on exactly one occasion: a run that beat your own best on ITS
+// OWN board (every mode has one now), on the tap that takes you off the death screen. Anything
+// more often is a form standing between you and the next match.
 const nbName = document.getElementById('nbName'), nbMsg = document.getElementById('nbMsg');
 let nbRun = null;
 function askName(run) {
   nbRun = run;
+  const B = stats.BOARDS[run.mode] || stats.BOARDS[stats.MODE_GORE];
+  // the prompt names the BOARD's number, not the gore mode's — a tournament run that said
+  // "5 KILLS" would be describing something nobody was playing for
   document.getElementById('nbScore').innerHTML =
-    `<b>${run.kills.toLocaleString('en-GB')}</b> KILLS · <b>${run.games}</b> GAME${run.games === 1 ? '' : 'S'}`;
+    `<b>${run.score.toLocaleString('en-GB')}</b> ${B.unit} · <b>${run.sub}</b> ${B.subUnit}`;
   nbName.value = stats.savedName();
   nbMsg.textContent = 'PUT IT ON THE WORLD BOARD.';
   document.getElementById('nbSend').disabled = false;
@@ -376,10 +397,13 @@ document.getElementById('nbSend').addEventListener('click', async () => {
   const btn = document.getElementById('nbSend');
   btn.disabled = true; nbMsg.textContent = 'SENDING…';       // the double-tap posts twice otherwise
   try {
-    const r = await stats.submit(name, nbRun.kills, nbRun.games);
+    const r = await stats.submit(name, nbRun.score, nbRun.sub, nbRun.mode);
+    rkMode = nbRun.mode;         // ...and the board that opens is the one you just wrote your name on
+    for (const el of document.getElementById('rkModes').children)
+      el.classList.toggle('on', el.dataset.m === rkMode);
     nbRun = null;
     go('ranks');
-    stats.drawRanks(r.scores);   // the board came back with the reply — no second round trip
+    stats.drawRanks(r.scores, rkMode);   // the board came back with the reply — no second round trip
   } catch (e) {
     btn.disabled = false;
     nbMsg.textContent = e.taken ? 'THAT NAME IS SPOKEN FOR. PICK ANOTHER.'
@@ -430,8 +454,8 @@ document.getElementById('hot').addEventListener('pointerdown', () => {
 // This is laserScene's trick: force the turn and then step the transition out in one go, because
 // the cinematic is ten seconds you did not come here to watch.
 function intoSplatter() {
-  if (G.mode === 'tennis') forceZombies();
-  for (let i = 0; i < 900 && G.mode !== 'splatter'; i++) update(1 / 60);
+  startGore();   // the direct door. It used to force the turn and then step the whole 8-second
+                 // cinematic out in 900 hidden updates — every sound it makes fired in one frame.
   G.modal = null; G.horde = null; G.hordeWarn = 0; G.interlude = false; G.changeover = 0; G.clearing = false;
   G.mgT = 0; G.gunId = null; G.beam = null; G.hp = G.hpMax = TUNE.playerHp;
   zombies.length = 0; shots.length = 0; pellets.length = 0;
@@ -580,7 +604,9 @@ const maybeRestart = () => {
   // stats.lastRun() survives restartRun on purpose — it lives in the stats module, not on G, which
   // has just been restored from PRISTINE. Consumed on read, so the prompt appears once.
   const run = stats.lastRun();
-  if (run && run.newKillBest && run.kills > 0) askName(run);
+  // ...on the BOARD's number, not on kills: a classic match has none, so the gore-shaped test here
+  // silently barred two of the three modes from ever reaching the prompt
+  if (run && run.newKillBest && run.score > 0) askName(run);
   else go('splash');
 };
 cv.addEventListener('pointerdown', maybeRestart);