The menu text reduction: the design handoff, built

Sixty words on the wall became a dozen. The handoff's own summary of the rule:
Jersey 15 NAMES (screen titles, rooms, cards), Bangers CALLS exactly once per
screen (the fixture, the primary button, a modal headline), Silkscreen INFORMS
(numbers, labels, chips) — and a sentence survives only where it carries a
decision. Everything else moved into a bar, a pip or the modal that opens with
the mode.

  · Jersey 15 bundled subset (9 KB) and Bungee retired after one afternoon
  · SPLASH: the plaque is one row, the goal line is gone (the fixture button
    below said it already), the two doors carry a number each
  · PICK A GAME: rooms are one word, posters are their names, the fixture is a
    hero with the only second line — the whole wall fits one screen now
  · MATCH SETUP: unnumbered blocks, the meters' legend once instead of a
    description per court, no summary footer
  · DIFFICULTY: three pips instead of three sentences
  · TRAINING: the revanche is a full-width row, rungs are numbers, the list
    ends on the league that opens the rest of the ladder
  · VS: three paragraphs became YOU / HOST / JOIN
  · MODALS: one rule per row (the sub was the lead again in other words), the
    blood pool as pips on that same line, and the walk-on's two levels in ONE
    face at ONE size — a comparison drawn at two sizes is a headline with a
    footnote (Oliver)

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

src/beats.js

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 // (beats <-> gameplay and beats <-> zombies are runtime-only import cycles, same pattern as
 // input <-> gameplay: the imported bindings are only touched inside functions, never at load.)
 
-import { TUNE, UI, bossArt, matchFoe, BENCH, ZFAMS, COURT, HOME, racketStage, leagueOf, cupRoundsFor, foeLevel } from './config.js';
+import { TUNE, UI, bossArt, matchFoe, BENCH, ZFAMS, COURT, HOME, racketStage, leagueOf, cupRoundsFor, cupFixture, foeLevel } from './config.js';
 import { endRun, MODE_MATCH } from './stats.js';
 import { award, prof, save as profSave, push as profPush, setPromo, levelAt, recordCup } from './profile.js';
 import { G, P, O, ball, score, setupPoint, sendBoy, other } from './state.js';
@@ -85,8 +85,8 @@ export function startDuel() {
     showModal({ title: 'SUDDEN DEATH', color: UI.hot,
       body: ["IT'S TENNIS AGAIN — ONE POINT", 'WIN IT AND THEY HAND YOU A WEAPON'],
       // both stakes named (the old card only sold the win): a lost duel is a real cost
-      rules: [{ lead: "IT'S TENNIS AGAIN — ONE POINT", sub: 'WIN: THEY HAND YOU A WEAPON' },
-              { lead: 'LOSE: THE DEAD TAKE A GAME', sub: 'AND FIVE MORE CLIMB THE FENCE', hot: true }] });
+      rules: ['WIN IT AND THEY HAND YOU A WEAPON',
+              { lead: 'LOSE IT AND FIVE MORE CLIMB THE FENCE', hot: true }] });
   } else G.flash = { text: 'SUDDEN DEATH', t: 1.6 };
 }
 
@@ -394,17 +394,15 @@ export function startMatch(cup = false, draw = null, train = 0) {
     showModal({ title: 'THE TRAINING COURT', color: UI.hot,
       body: ['ONE BODY, ONE GAME AT A TIME',
              'FELL IT — OR BLEED OUT — AND IT COMES BACK', 'NO RUN IS BANKED — REPS PAY QUARTER XP'],
-      rules: [{ lead: 'ONE BODY, ONE GAME AT A TIME', sub: 'FELL IT OR BLEED OUT — IT COMES BACK' },
-              { lead: 'NO RUN IS BANKED', sub: 'REPS PAY QUARTER XP' }] });
+      rules: ['FELL IT OR BLEED OUT — IT COMES BACK', 'NOTHING IS BANKED · REPS PAY ¼ XP'] });
   } else if (cup && !G.seen.cup) {
     G.seen.cup = true;
-    showModal({ title: 'THE TOURNAMENT', color: UI.hot,
+    showModal({ title: 'THE TOURNAMENT', color: UI.hot, strap: cupFixture(G.league, prof.ch).sub,
       // plain words (Oliver: "dead hierarchy" said nothing) — what you play, what winning buys
       body: ['YOUR LEAGUE, ROUND BY ROUND — WIN IT ALL, MOVE UP A LEAGUE',
              'ITS POINTS DRAW BLOOD — ' + TUNE.matchPlayerHp + ' AND YOU ARE EATEN'],
-      rules: [{ lead: 'YOUR LEAGUE, ROUND BY ROUND', sub: 'WIN IT ALL — MOVE UP A LEAGUE' },
-              { lead: 'ITS POINTS DRAW BLOOD', sub: 'AT ZERO YOU ARE EATEN', hot: true,
-                pips: TUNE.matchPlayerHp }] });
+      rules: ['WIN IT ALL — MOVE UP A LEAGUE',
+              { lead: 'POINTS DRAW BLOOD', hot: true, pips: TUNE.matchPlayerHp }] });
   } else if (!cup && !train && !G.seen.match) {
     G.seen.match = true;
     // Oliver's copy direction: name the stake, count the blood. TUNE.matchPlayerHp is the real
@@ -416,15 +414,13 @@ export function startMatch(cup = false, draw = null, train = 0) {
       ? { title: 'DEATH MATCH', color: UI.hot,
           body: ['WIN THE POINT — WOUND YOUR FRIEND',
                  'ITS POINTS DRAW BLOOD — ' + TUNE.matchPlayerHp + ' AND YOU ARE EATEN'],
-          rules: [{ lead: 'WIN THE POINT', sub: 'WOUND YOUR FRIEND' },
-                  { lead: 'ITS POINTS DRAW BLOOD', sub: 'AT ZERO YOU ARE EATEN', hot: true,
-                    pips: TUNE.matchPlayerHp }] }
+          rules: ['WIN THE POINT — WOUND YOUR FRIEND',
+                  { lead: 'POINTS DRAW BLOOD', hot: true, pips: TUNE.matchPlayerHp }] }
       : { title: 'THE CLIMB', color: UI.hot,
           body: ['THE WHOLE CLUB, BOTTOM UP — ONE GAME PER BODY',
                  'ITS POINTS DRAW BLOOD — ' + TUNE.matchPlayerHp + ' AND YOU ARE EATEN'],
-          rules: [{ lead: 'THE WHOLE CLUB, BOTTOM UP', sub: 'ONE GAME PER BODY — HOW FAR CAN YOU GET?' },
-                  { lead: 'ITS POINTS DRAW BLOOD', sub: 'AT ZERO YOU ARE EATEN', hot: true,
-                    pips: TUNE.matchPlayerHp }] });
+          rules: ['ONE GAME PER BODY — HOW FAR CAN YOU GET?',
+                  { lead: 'POINTS DRAW BLOOD', hot: true, pips: TUNE.matchPlayerHp }] });
   }
   matchOpponent();
   matchReady();