Two netplay-only finds from Oliver's two-phone session.
THE FRIEND'S STRIKE was silent: every other opponent is simulated locally
and cracks through gameplay's shared return path, but the friend's swing
runs on their phone alone and arrives as a 'shot' message that wrote the
ball and nothing else. netApplyShot now plays the same sample at the same
volume, pitched off the pace that was actually sent (strikeRate, read after
the ball is written). Both netplay modes, not just the death match.
THE REMATCH: the summary's only netplay door was THE CLUBHOUSE, so playing
the same friend again meant two trips through the lobby and a fresh code.
The relay cannot re-pair, so the rematch is the socket that is still open —
one 'again' frame and both phones reset the run under the decisions the room
already carries (same side, same mode, same court, host serves). netAgain
keeps G.net across restartRun(true) and replays netFresh, netStart's own
tail split out so pairing and rematch cannot drift into two courts. Applied,
never echoed; a 2 s window swallows the second frame when both tap at once;
a dead line refuses and falls through to the clubhouse.
Also: the dev server runs with SPLAT_AUTH= (server.py always said local dev
should), which the shared password had been 401-ing. audio.sfxTest is a new
test seam in netTest's shape. 146 tests.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The game is not public yet. parse_request is the one place every method passes
through, so the gate sits there rather than in each do_*. /api and /ws stay open
because the iOS shell talks to prod from capacitor://localhost and has no
credentials to send. SPLAT_AUTH overrides it; empty opens the site again.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The GET filter spelled its modes out as a literal `[^gzc]` character class, so
`?m=u` sanitised to nothing, fell back to 'g', and the server answered the cup
board's request with the gore board — which the client then printed in the cup
board's words: 7121 kills as LEAGUE 7121. The filter is derived from MODES now,
where the mode list has lived all along.
And the client checks the answer it got: the response names the board it is,
so a server that does not know a board (an old one, mid-deploy) makes the
screen say THIS BOARD IS NOT UP YET instead of mislabelling another board's
rows. Nothing beats something wrong on a leaderboard.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A record never set reads as a dash — "BEST GORE RUN 0" looks like a bad run
when what it means is that there has not been one. The weapon tiles name their
weapon: six unlabelled silhouettes was a guessing game about which one is the
flamer.
The doubled border was the row rule firing inside the grid: `.fig + .fig` gave
cell three a left border hard against the container's own. It is scoped to
single-row figure strips now, and the two-up grid draws its own seams. Less
padding inside the box, air above it.
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The league panel's crest wore the same breathing glow; with the honours row's
gone it was the only one left, so it takes the plain drop shadow the card's
crest took. @keyframes badgeGlow has no users any more.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two bugs in one rule. The grey sat on the IMAGE while the breathing halo was an
animation on the same image — and a filter in a keyframe outranks a static one,
so the glow was painting the greyscale away. Worse, the selector that handed out
that halo still read `img:not(.dark)` from when the class hung on the image; the
class moved to the cell in the inscription pass, so every shield on the row was
matching it, lit or not. The grey lives on the cell now, where nothing animates.
And the halo is gone from the row entirely (Oliver): the glints do that job, and
a permanent breathing glow under an occasional flash was two effects saying the
same thing. The league panel's crest keeps its own.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The glint rework and the ember fix before it both shipped under the same query,
so any phone that had loaded the page in between kept the stale module — which
is exactly what "ich sehe kein aufblitzen" was looking at.
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A chimney of rising embers on a trophy read as a fire. Three points ON the
shield now, dark for most of a long cycle and flaring for a fraction of it,
with delays and durations that share no common multiple — so a glint lands
somewhere on the row every couple of seconds and never in the same rhythm.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
They were running the whole time (0.85 opacity, measured) — they were just
flying ACROSS the artwork, where a 3px gold speck disappears into a pixel
shield. They lift off the top edge into the dark above it now, seven per badge
on a shorter delay window: spread over 2.6s the shield stood empty half the
time, which is what "ich sehe kein glimmen" was looking at.
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Oliver wanted to rank the level a league was taken at. The challenge held: xp
comes only from playing, so a board that rewards a low level rewards not
playing — it would pay you to avoid the three rooms the season leans on. It
also inverts every other number in the game, freezes after five entries, and
makes the player who played more look worse.
So the league ranks and the level decides between everyone who got equally far,
where "lower is better" reads naturally. BOARDS.u carries subLow; server
rank_key is the other half, and the same key decides whether a submission beats
the row already standing. The level is written once at the promotion — before
the league moves, because it is the level that WON the cup — mirrored like the
rest of the profile, and inscribed under the shield it belongs to. Earned
shields smoulder while they are on screen: five CSS embers each, no loop.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Three mode tabs times three period tabs, and the same three boxes meant
something different in every one — Oliver had no idea what he was looking at,
which is the correct reaction to a screen with nine states. It is one screen
now: bodies felled, best gore run, deepest climb, runs. Never anything else.
MULTI-KILLS retired (a vanity number on no board) and DEATHS with it (every run
ends in one, so it was RUNS again). The period filter went too: LAST RUN is the
summary you just tapped away, and 7 DAYS is a fitness metric in a permadeath
game. The card stops repeating the ledger and keeps the CAREER instead —
league, cups won, best cup.
The world board drops CLASSIC: that mode is out of competition by its own
room's rule now, so ranking it contradicted the wall. A classic best no longer
opens the name prompt either — it would have had nowhere to go.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
It was the last place still breaking the wizard's own rule — a question screen
carries no memory of its own answer. Three names, three pip counts, nothing
else. `.last` has no users left, so the rule is gone from the stylesheet.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
LAST remembered what you played last time, which a gallery of six posters does
not need to do for you, and 18 RUNGS was a number about a mode on the screen
for choosing between modes. Both gone. The difficulty screen keeps its LAST —
there it is the only thing saying what you last set.
The dead sub-poster branch in buildSub went with them: nothing has fanned out
into sub-posters since the cup left the ZOMBIE TENNIS pocket.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The prototype ships a copy of thirty repo assets and the zip is a second copy
again — a megabyte of duplicate art in the history for a document whose
decisions now live in PROJECT.md and in the code. The folder is ignored, not
deleted: it is still there to read.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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>
10 KB instead of 119 — the face carries only the characters this game sets, and
the command to redo it is in PROJECT.md. The header strip's titles take it at
23px: a strip at the top of a screen is signage, not an announcement, so it
stops leaning. Bangers keeps what it was always for — the primary button, the
ceremonies, and everything the canvas shouts. The poster wall's rooms go back
to acid beside it, with the scale carrying the hierarchy.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Bangers has no upright cut — the slant is in the glyphs, which is also why the
chevrons are Silkscreen — so a heading that wanted to shout without leaning had
to come from somewhere. Bungee is an arcade/signage face, upper case by design,
and it stays in-world where the platform's UI sans did not. Bundled beside the
other two with its OFL licence; the Dockerfile already copies assets wholesale.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Colour stops carrying the hierarchy on this screen — the acid belongs to the
screen title, so the rooms are cream and the canonical one is marked by its
poster's ribbon rather than by its heading's tint.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Three tries: Bangers, then the HUD face, then the platform's UI face, and back
to Bangers. It works now because the header lost its rule and its left band and
gained air — the size carries the hierarchy (20 against the screen title's 26)
instead of the typeface having to. The strap goes back to Silkscreen under it:
a shouted line over a system-sans line was two foreign voices in one header.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
On nearest-neighbour art the backdrop blur read as a smear rather than depth,
so the caption sits on a plain gradient rising from the bottom edge instead —
solid where the words are, gone before it reaches the art.
And the section headings stop borrowing: the game bundles two faces and both
were already spoken for on this screen (Bangers is the screen title, Silkscreen
is the posters' own captions), so a shelf label in either sounded like
something else. They take the platform's interface face now — heavy, tracked,
upper case: chrome, which is what a shelf label is.
Scoped to the section HEADER while doing it. The posters live inside .mgroup
now, so the old bare descendant selector had been restyling every caption on
the wall — invisible only because it still named Silkscreen.
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The scrim used to be a hard linear-gradient riding in the button's own
background stack. It is a masked backdrop-blur now: nothing at all at its top
edge, a surface by the time it reaches the words. The art stays art where the
art is, the caption gets something to sit on, and no box edge appears anywhere.
Measured on this machine it costs 0.2ms a frame — the backdrop is static while
the menu is.
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The entrance is no longer a one-off on the boot: dealStage re-arms the class at
the funnel every stage change already passes, so the title screen flies its
plaque and buttons in whenever you arrive at it. The sub-menus join in — their
header, content and footer arrive one after the other instead of the panel
dropping in as one slab — and the poster wall deals its three rooms rather than
its list, since a moving child inside a moving parent starts at twice the
offset and reads as a stutter.
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The splash's elements fly in from the left on the boot, 70ms apart, on the same
easeOutBack overshoot the canvas modals have always used. It hangs off
:not(.busy), so taking the loading state off IS the trigger and it never plays
again — returning from a run should not make you wait for a flourish you have
seen. Reduced motion turns it off.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two things the phone found. The splash's loading state was applied by main.js —
but this is a module script, so the browser paints the markup, placeholders and
all, before it runs: LEVEL 1 stood there and then snapped to the real values.
The busy class ships in index.html now and main.js only takes it off; the
keyboard hints hide with it.
And #intro is the one scroller the menus share, so a scroll earned deep in the
stats screen outlived it: going back put the splash up scrolled, with its
buttons off screen. go() resets it, at the funnel every stage change passes.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
"The draw" was tennis for the field of entrants, and nothing has been drawn
since the cup rounds went deterministic — Oliver had to ask what the button
meant, which settled it. Beside it, an unqualified PLAY AGAIN was an
instruction without a subject: both buttons read as "start something" and only
someone who remembered how the evening began could tell them apart. It carries
the mode now — GORE AGAIN, CLIMB AGAIN, CLASSIC AGAIN, TRAIN AGAIN.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A 100px label in a 120px half-button left ten pixels of air, which reads as a
squeezed chip. A tall screen has the room, so the two doors stack full width —
filled primary over ghost secondary, the same shape the modal footer and the
splash already use. A short landscape cannot stack, so there the box itself
grows to 344 and the halves come out comfortable instead.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Oliver's second pass over the new box language. The modal is narrower and the
button spans it; every row got real spacing and the footer its own margin, so
the end screens stop reading as cramped. The xp bar is taller and its ramp now
rides the FILL — spanning the gradient across the whole track meant an early
level only ever showed one flat green inch of it. An illustrated announcement
puts its two lines beside the picture, under the headline, instead of in a
boxed row below its own icon.
The poster wall's section headings leave the announcement face to the posters
(it read as a second card headline), drop the left band and the rule, and let
air do the grouping. On the splash, OTHER GAMES gets its gap to the stats row,
and the boot shows nothing but the court, the title and the loading bar — the
plaque skeleton was still a plaque telling a level-25 player he was level 1.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Oliver: the group headings were "sehr klein". Each group is a section now with
its posters inside it — the announcement face one size under the screen title,
a rule closing the header, and an inset band down the left. The canonical room
wears the primary's colour, because it is the one that moves your career.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The tournament is the canonical path, so the game finally says so. The splash's
primary button names the next cup fixture and enters the draw; the poster wall
moved one tap down and deals three named rooms (the season, the training, out of
competition) with the cup at the top. Two profile fields remember every attempt
— rounds ever reached per league, and the body that put you out — so a lost cup
is a line on the board instead of a null event, and the training court offers
that body first, marked. The promotion names what waits in the new league.
Overlays consolidated in the same pass: three modal drawers became one box with
a masthead, hairline-separated rows and a real footer button (any tap still
dismisses), and the run-end summary wears the same box — headline, xp, mark, and
the fixture with ENTER THE DRAW beside PLAY AGAIN. The cup's own exit is a
ceremony now: OUT IN THE QUARTER-FINAL, your best standing beside it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Oliver's read: the modes feel decoupled, the menus and end screens enforce no
story-line. Settled in discussion: the tournament is the canonical path and
everything else is Beiwerk, a cup attempt is one evening (no resume, no
seeding), classic stays a side room. The spine — the splash names the next
fixture, the club remembers your attempts, the side modes are described in cup
terms, every ending hands over, and the season opens inside the promotion.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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