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The shot list documents itself: all eight tins, five beats, ten bosses

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The header block in tools/scenes.json is now the whole schema — every key with
its range and default, what each of the EIGHT weapons does (fire, laser and gun
were missing from both the docs and the validator), the five beats, the crowd
roster diversity walks in order, the bosses by chapter, and the traps worth
knowing: a serve tin is spent in about four seconds of autopilot fire, a burst
tin owns its own window, a horde locks the rack, a boss cannot start inside a
match, and `movement` fights the match's own auto-run legs.

Two scenes added from the campaign's own wish list: `epidemic` (the fire ball
lighting a whole wave off the body it hit) and `champion` (chapter ten, the
night court). Both verified on film.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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{
"_": [
"THE SHOT LIST. `python3 tools/capture.py` shoots every scene below into promo/clips/;",
"`python3 tools/capture.py horde boss` shoots two; `python3 tools/capture.py my.json` shoots",
"another list entirely. Keys starting with _ are ignored, which is where the comments go.",
"_readme": [
"THE SHOT LIST for the promo clip factory. Every object in `scenes` becomes one vertical mp4 in",
"promo/clips/, named after its `name`. Keys starting with _ are ignored everywhere, which is",
"where comments go. This block is the whole spec: nothing else needs reading to write a batch.",
"",
"name file name, and the name you pass on the command line",
"seconds length of the take (3-60)",
"setting gore | zombie — the splatter run, or the tennis match against the roster",
"beat transition | horde | boss | death | mopboy — the staged moment, optional",
"court grass | clay | hard | gloom",
"boss 1-10, the chapter whose boss walks on (gore only; it owns the court, so no match)",
"weapons rack tins granted and cycled through: bomb, triple, beacon, flamer, rocket",
"movement 0 statue .. 1 sweeps the full width (only bites in a rally or under a burst)",
"density 0 .. 1 how many bodies are kept on court (1 is about fourteen)",
"diversity 0 shamblers only .. 1 the whole roster (steward, runner, ball boy, brute, bouncer)",
"gore 0 .. 1 blood already on the court when the clip opens",
"games run progress the HUD shows and the speed ramp reads (default 8, or the boss chapter)",
"screen phone (default, 393x852 -> 1080x2340) | tall | 9x16",
"seed whole-shoot seed lives on the command line: --seed 1234 re-rolls every take"
"RUN IT",
" python3 tools/capture.py every scene in this file",
" python3 tools/capture.py horde boss only those, in that order",
" python3 tools/capture.py my-batch.json a different list entirely (same schema)",
" python3 tools/capture.py --seed 77 re-roll every take (default seed 20260818)",
" python3 tools/capture.py --keep keep the raw webm beside the mp4",
"A scene takes its own length plus ~8 s of boot. Chrome opens and plays each one; don't click in",
"it. Bad values are rejected before the shoot with the scene index and the reason.",
"",
"REQUIRED KEYS",
" name file name. letters, digits, - and _ only. Must be unique in the file.",
" seconds 3..60. The whole take, from the first staged beat. 12-18 is the useful range.",
" setting gore | zombie",
" gore = the splatter run: slingshot serves at a crowd that walks at you.",
" zombie = ZOMBIE TENNIS: real tennis rules against the roster, one game per",
" opponent, and the opponent bursts when you take his game.",
"",
"OPTIONAL KEYS (defaults in brackets)",
" beat [none] the staged moment — see THE BEATS below.",
" court [grass] grass | clay | hard | gloom",
" grass = CENTRE COURT (green, day), clay = TERRE ROUGE (orange),",
" hard = THE SLAB (blue-grey), gloom = THE NIGHT COURT (dark, floodlit).",
" weapons [none] tins granted at full stock and cycled through — see THE RACK below.",
" weaponEvery [4] seconds between rack switches when `weapons` has more than one.",
" movement [0] 0 = statue, 1 = sweeps the full width. See MOVEMENT below.",
" density [0] bodies kept on court, 0..1 (1 is about fourteen). Topped up as they die.",
" diversity [0] 0 = shamblers only .. 1 = the whole roster. See THE CROWD below.",
" gore [0] blood already on the court when the clip opens, 0..1 (1 is about thirty",
" stains across both halves). The clip adds its own on top.",
" games [8, or boss*10] the run's game count: the HUD shows it and the zombie speed ramp",
" reads it. Higher = faster, meaner bodies. 20+ reads as a deep run.",
" boss [none] 1..10, the chapter whose boss walks on. gore only — see THE BEATS.",
" screen [phone] phone (393x852 -> 1080x2340) | tall (412x915) | 9x16 (270x480 -> 1080x1920)",
" phone is the framing a player actually sees; 9x16 only if a platform insists.",
" turnAt [4.5] transition beat only: when the opponent turns. Everything before it is",
" ordinary tennis, and the cinematic runs about 9 s after it.",
" gamePoint [true] zombie setting only: every serve is game point, so the burst lands inside a",
" short clip. false to play it straight (and probably show no kill).",
"",
"THE BEATS — the staged moment, all reached through the doors a player uses",
" transition THE FLAGSHIP. Opens on an ordinary tennis rally; at `turnAt` the opponent bursts",
" and stands back up wrong, the mob walks on, THE MATCH HAS CHANGED. Give it 17 s.",
" Do not dress this one with weapons or a crowd — the reveal IS the clip.",
" horde A wave is called at 2.5 s: the racket fires itself and you steer. `weapons` and",
" the rack are locked out for its duration, by the game's own rule.",
" boss The chapter boss walks on at 1.2 s. Needs `boss`, and `setting: gore` — one mode",
" owns the court, so a boss cannot start inside a match and the config refuses it.",
" death You are killed 6 s before the end: the blood pool, then GAME, SET, MASSACRE and",
" the run summary. Pair with a high `density` so the death is earned.",
" mopboy The ball boy walks out and calmly mops the blood, 8 s before the end; the",
" autopilot stops shooting so he can work. He only comes for a mess on HIS side of",
" the net, so give it `density` and `gore` or he stays home.",
"",
"THE RACK — all eight tins, granted at nine each and selected in the order listed",
" bomb serve detonates on contact, clears a whole crowd",
" triple serve one serve, three balls fanned wide",
" fire serve kills on any touch AND sets the others alight — the epidemic ball",
" laser serve a beam through the lane",
" gun burst 8 s of spray; you hold the line and steer",
" beacon burst 11 s of self-throwing balls, twice size, every colour",
" flamer burst 6 s wall of fire, and the fire spreads",
" rocket burst 9 s of self-launching rockets, each one a bomb",
" A SERVE tin spends one per shot and the autopilot shoots every ~0.45 s, so nine tins is about",
" four seconds of screen time before the slot falls back to plain balls — list two or three and",
" keep `weaponEvery` at 3-4 for a clip that shows all of them. A BURST tin arms on the next pull",
" and then fires itself for its own length; nothing switches during it.",
"",
"THE CROWD — `diversity` walks this list in order, so 0.3 reaches the steward, 1 the roller man",
" shambler (two skins) · the steward (hi-vis, tougher) · the runner (sprints) · the ball boy ·",
" the spectator (blocks with his chair) · the brute (drags a pole) · the bouncer (built like a",
" door) · the roller man (hauls the court roller). They walk in from behind the far baseline.",
"",
"MOVEMENT — held arrow keys on the real input path, a slow patrol rather than a jitter. It only",
" bites during a rally or under a burst, because the game itself forbids walking between points.",
" Leave it 0 for `setting: zombie`: the match brings its own auto-run legs and held keys",
" override them, so a moving config makes the match player worse, not livelier.",
"",
"THE BOSSES, by chapter: 1 the groundskeeper · 2 the line judge · 3 the chair umpire · 4 the head",
" coach · 5 the physio · 6 the sponsor mascot · 7 the stringer · 8 the tournament director ·",
" 9 the strawberry seller · 10 THE CHAMPION."
],
"scenes": [
{
"_": "THE FLAGSHIP. Four seconds of an ordinary SNES tennis game, then the turn. Nothing else in the clip needs to happen — do not add weapons or a crowd to it.",
"_": "THE FLAGSHIP. Four seconds of an ordinary SNES tennis game, then the turn. Nothing else in this clip needs to happen.",
"name": "transition", "seconds": 17, "setting": "gore", "beat": "transition",
"court": "grass", "movement": 0.35, "gore": 0
},
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"court": "clay", "movement": 0.85, "density": 0.8, "diversity": 0.9, "gore": 0.45, "games": 14
},
{
"_": "The epidemic: a wave lined up across the far court and a flamethrower opened on it.",
"_": "The wall of fire, and the fire spreads.",
"name": "flamer", "seconds": 14, "setting": "gore",
"court": "grass", "weapons": ["flamer", "rocket"], "weaponEvery": 6,
"movement": 0.7, "density": 0.85, "diversity": 0.6, "gore": 0.3, "games": 9
},
{
"_": "THE EPIDEMIC: the fire ball kills on any touch and lights the rest of the wave off the body it hit.",
"name": "epidemic", "seconds": 13, "setting": "gore",
"court": "hard", "weapons": ["fire"], "weaponEvery": 3,
"movement": 0.5, "density": 1, "diversity": 0.5, "gore": 0.35, "games": 12
},
{
"_": "Artillery night: three tins in fourteen seconds on the dark court.",
"name": "arsenal", "seconds": 14, "setting": "gore",
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"movement": 0.6, "density": 0.7, "diversity": 1, "gore": 0.55, "games": 16
},
{
"_": "The ball boy calmly mopping a massacre. The pilot stops shooting so he can work.",
"_": "The ball boy calmly mopping a massacre. The autopilot stops shooting so he can work.",
"name": "mopboy", "seconds": 15, "setting": "gore", "beat": "mopboy",
"court": "hard", "movement": 0.4, "density": 0.55, "diversity": 0.7, "gore": 0.5, "games": 10
},
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"court": "clay", "movement": 0.5, "density": 0.9, "diversity": 0.8, "gore": 0.7, "games": 11
},
{
"_": "Chapter three's boss walks on with the whole rack already gathered.",
"_": "Chapter three's boss — the chair umpire — walks on with the rack already gathered.",
"name": "boss", "seconds": 16, "setting": "gore", "beat": "boss", "boss": 3,
"court": "grass", "weapons": ["rocket", "bomb"], "movement": 0.75, "gore": 0.4
},
{
"_": "THE CHAMPION, chapter ten, on the night court.",
"name": "champion", "seconds": 16, "setting": "gore", "beat": "boss", "boss": 10,
"court": "gloom", "weapons": ["rocket", "laser"], "weaponEvery": 5, "movement": 0.8, "gore": 0.6
},
{
"_": "ZOMBIE TENNIS: a rally on real tennis rules, the opponent bursts, the next one is announced.",
"name": "match", "seconds": 18, "setting": "zombie",
"court": "grass", "movement": 0, "gore": 0.25
},
{
"_": "...and the same mode on clay, deeper into the roster, with the court already bloody.",
"_": "...the same mode on clay, deep into a run, with the court already bloody.",
"name": "match-clay", "seconds": 16, "setting": "zombie",
"court": "clay", "movement": 0, "gore": 0.8, "games": 20
}