Streamline mobile menus and refresh splash logo

PROJECT.md

@@ -4986,6 +4986,83 @@ shot simulations from the recording (20 seeds each, not a deterministic full-mat
 return all six soft Champion winners; wide winners against earlier foes and surprise misses remain.
 Phone balance still needs Oliver's next recording; no further numeric difficulty increase here.
 
+## Session log: THE MENU HAS ONE FRONT DOOR (2026-09-07, LOCAL PREVIEW ONLY)
+
+Oliver approved the portrait menu audit with two corrections: **Vs a Friend stands on its own**,
+and **Other Games needs a prominent splash entrance**. Implemented locally for him to click through
+before any deployment; no commit or push made in this pass.
+
+- Splash keeps the direct league fixture and direct Gore start. Other Games and Vs a Friend are
+  substantial sibling buttons; World Board stays below. Gore's named court link opens its setup.
+- Other Games contains only **The Climb, Training, Classic Tennis**, in two poster rows. No duplicate
+  cup/Gore, no Training/Casual categories, and Arcade is consistently named The Climb.
+- Classic's difficulty is selected inside its setup. Training chooses the opponent BEFORE setup;
+  Serve Up always starts the selected match. The redundant cup setup is removed. First-time cup
+  identity entry resumes the cup instead of losing the destination in the game picker.
+- Player appearance lives in the shared identity editor, accessible from profile or a compact setup
+  row. Save/Back returns to the caller; existing players see SAVE PLAYER. Swatches and menu back
+  buttons have 44px targets; the in-game exit retains its HUD art with a larger invisible hit area.
+- Available courts show first; locked courts are disabled compact rows inside a native disclosure.
+  Picks persist immediately. Setup titles name the actual mode and training shows the chosen foe.
+- Stats belongs to the profile and returns there. The profile retains career figures and a fold-out
+  league roster; duplicate lifetime totals live only in Stats. Playtest recording is a collapsed
+  native details block below the records; ON/FULL is visible in its summary when applicable.
+- Play On is the primary action in the exit dialog. The world board correctly selects Cup after a
+  league match; Classic falls back to Gore, since there is no Classic leaderboard tab.
+
+Validation: `node test.js` — **142 pass**. `tools/check-menu.js` is a local browser-tool regression
+(no package, excluded from the served image with the existing tools directory): **34 checks pass**
+covering fresh cup onboarding, real mode starts, difficulty/opponent identity, editor returns,
+locked courts, profile/stats/recording, room cancellation, and 320×568 / 390×844 portrait geometry.
+Manual screenshots reviewed for splash, additional modes, setups, profile, stats and player editor.
+No gameplay tuning or court mode-transition code changed. **Await Oliver's local review; not deployed.**
+
+## Session log: MENU PREVIEW POLISH (2026-09-07, LOCAL ONLY)
+
+Oliver's next local review supersedes the collapsed defaults above: **all three disclosures open
+by default** (locked courts, profile league, playtest recording), while remaining user-toggleable.
+Other Games and Vs a Friend now have truly centred labels, without the offsetting chevrons.
+Cup and Gore share a 76px button height and the same title/subtitle layout. Each button fades from
+its existing solid colour on the left into its original mode poster on the right, using CSS only.
+The menu card's old 370px content-width cap is removed: width 100% with border-box padding fills
+both narrow phones and wider preview panes without horizontal overflow; viewport minimum height
+and sticky footers are retained.
+
+Validation: **39 browser checks pass**, including equal CTA heights, centred labels, open defaults,
+and a full-width/full-height card at 768×1024, alongside the existing 320×568 and 390×844 flows.
+Screenshots reviewed at both phone sizes. Still local; no commit, push or deployment.
+
+Local visual follow-up (same day): Oliver prefers roughly **one third colour / two thirds art**.
+The Cup/Gore gradient now reveals the poster sooner. Other Games uses the existing arcade poster,
+Vs a Friend uses its original multiplayer poster, both with the same soft colour-to-art treatment
+and centred, shadowed labels. Button dimensions and navigation are unchanged; still local only.
+
+Local visual follow-up: a small blood drop grows at the Gore button's lower-right edge, falls
+across the court link onto Vs a Friend, slowly traces down its face and drops off its bottom edge.
+Two synchronized CSS pseudo-element animations repeat every 18 seconds after an initial 3-second
+delay; the trail fades between drops. Their geometry shares the responsive friend-button height.
+Decorative only (`pointer-events: none`), active only on a loaded splash, disabled for reduced
+motion. No new assets, timers or gameplay changes. Browser checks cover alignment, synchronized
+clocks, non-interception, reduced motion and stopping off-splash; still local, not deployed.
+
+Local logo follow-up: Oliver approved integrating the generated logo proposal. The splash now
+uses `assets/logo-v2.png`, a transparent PNG with brighter red lettering, lime Tennis lettering
+and a larger ball in the blood underline. The original `assets/logo.png` is retained. Reviewed
+at 320×568 and 390×844: clean transparency, correct loading and no horizontal overflow. Local only.
+
+Logo colour correction: Oliver found the integrated version a little too bright. The splash
+now tones it down with CSS `saturate(.78) brightness(.84)`, preserving the exact artwork and alpha.
+After trying the proposed ball glow, Oliver decided to remove it entirely: **no tennis-ball glow
+or pulse; blood is enough**. Only the small drop from the logo's blood underline remains, every
+14 seconds (first after 4 seconds). It is a CSS decoration anchored to the responsive logo,
+ignores pointer events, runs only on the loaded, visible splash and respects reduced motion.
+The blood version passed all 42 menu browser checks before the glow was removed. Still local only.
+
+Release approval (2026-09-07): Oliver approved this menu/logo revision for staging and production.
+Release cache version: `main.js?v=353`. Pre-release validation: 142 game tests and all 42 mobile
+menu browser checks pass. Deploy staging first, verify the served release, then promote the same
+commit to production. Staging URL: `https://splatter-tennis-staging.wuwi.one`.
+
 # OPEN — leftovers, in rough priority order
 
 Nothing here is broken; these are known gaps and unverified risks.