wuwiandClaude Opus 5
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Six reports from Oliver's first playtest of the boss build. Two mattered. A boss sprite turned up in the shambler crowd because z_B1.png and z_b1.png are the same file on a case-insensitive filesystem — writing the boss frames silently overwrote the 'b' shambler's first two frames, and `ls` only ever showed the original lowercase name. Restored from HEAD~1, boss frames renamed z_boss*, and the rule is now in the asset pipeline notes. The parry was unreachable, which killed the entire new mechanic: P.swingT is only set in keyPressed's `phase === 'rally'` branch, and splatter sits in pretoss almost all the time, so every tap aimed at an incoming shot tossed the serve ball instead of swinging. An incoming shot inside parryArm now owns the tap in every phase, with its own generous reach and window — this is a phone, one thumb, against something aimed at you. The three fail cases (too early, too late, no tap) are what keep it a timing skill. The swish no longer eats shots: it runs first in keyPressed and was swallowing the very ball the parry was about to return. One flame ball killed a 16 hp boss, and that was a bug rather than tuning. A flame ball is not consumed on contact (full pierce, so it can cut a lane) but a boss is not removed when hit, so the same ball re-wounded it every frame. Boss bodies now take a contact cooldown and flame spends itself on them. Chapter 1 costs 4 flame balls or 16 clean smashes, and bossHp goes 10 to 16. The boss had no wounded state while throwing — correct, the wound skins were standing poses only. New sheet gives all four damage states their own overarm pitch. The ball machine's four painted rects are replaced with a real sheet, idle and firing, keeping only the muzzle glow procedural because the telegraph has to read at 20px tall. And the player's blood no longer sits on him as a painted layer: live drip and the screen-edge wash, nothing else. Tennis untouched: 30 tapped points, 50 hits / 0 whiffs. 45-game soak clean, all four chapters firing. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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