Dust settles on every court: tennis ticks particles too, EPIC! cheers, the machine explains itself

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

gameplay.js

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ import { P, O, ball, score, crowd, G, court, other, deuceSide, setupPoint, sendB
 import { audio, pock, swish, whoosh, applause, voice, sfx, aww, zombieMusic, zombieDuck, menuDuck, splat, shriek, boom } from './audio.js';
 import { axisX, axisZ, takeFlickAim, touchPX, resetInput } from './input.js';
 import { W } from './render.js'; // runtime-only cycle (render imports gameplay), same pattern as input/zombies
-import { updateZombies, spawnZombie, spawnRacketZombie, spawnMachine, spawnChapterBoss, zombies, gore, explode, meleeSwipe, extras, parts, pellets, shots, playerGore, eatenBleed, resetZombies , firePellet , spawnBarrel , fireBeam , pops, popText } from './zombies.js';
+import { updateZombies, updateParts, spawnZombie, spawnRacketZombie, spawnMachine, spawnChapterBoss, zombies, gore, explode, meleeSwipe, extras, parts, pellets, shots, playerGore, eatenBleed, resetZombies , firePellet , spawnBarrel , fireBeam , pops, popText } from './zombies.js';
 
 // ------------------------------------------------------------- ballistics ----
 // Launch ball from (x0,y0,z0) so it arrives at (tx, tz) with horizontal speed s under gravity g.
@@ -742,13 +742,7 @@ export function startBossFight(chapter) {
   const art = bossArt(chapter);
   G.card = { title: art.name, color: UI.bad, t: TUNE.setCardT };
   G.flash = null;
-  if (!G.seen.boss) { // the rules change: a wall, and a thing that shoots back
-    G.seen.boss = true;
-    showModal({ title: 'IT BRINGS A MACHINE', color: UI.bad,
-      body: ['IT THROWS BALLS AT YOU', 'SWING TO RETURN THEM — OR SWISH TO BAT THEM AWAY',
-             'SWIPE SIDEWAYS TO STEP OUT OF THE WAY',
-             'A HIT COSTS BLOOD. WIN A DUEL TO HEAL.'] });
-  }
+  // (the four-line machine instruction modal is gone — people figure it out)
 }
 
 // the chapter boss is down: the parked game beat resumes and normal spawning comes back
@@ -767,7 +761,7 @@ export function endBossFight() {
   // long hold — the chapter and the crowd move down to the subs where they belong.
   // (no 'GAME n NEXT' line: the bar under the scoreboard prints the game number permanently, and a
   // card that repeats what the HUD already says is the clutter this pass is meant to remove.)
-  G.card = { title: 'YOU DID IT', color: UI.pick, t: TUNE.bossWinT,
+  G.card = { title: 'EPIC!', sub1: 'YOU DID IT!', color: UI.pick, t: TUNE.bossWinT,
              wait: TUNE.bossDeathT }; // ...after the body has finished coming apart
   ball.active = false;
   // a duel the handback just started owns the phase; otherwise hold the boss beat, and never
@@ -1500,6 +1494,7 @@ export function update(dt) {
 
   // --- zombies + transition timeline
   if (G.mode !== 'tennis') updateZombies(dt);
+  else updateParts(dt); // tennis has no zombies but its bounces still kick up dust that must settle
   tickTestMode(dt); // keeps the sandbox stocked and rolls it a barrel now and then
   if (G.meleeT > 0) G.meleeT -= dt;
   if (G.rackGlow && (G.rackGlow.t -= dt) <= 0) G.rackGlow = null; // the fresh-pickup pulse fades out