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claudeandClaude Opus 5 ef28970654 Close three holes an unmodified client could walk through
One account is now one session. Two peers signed in as the same account
each got their own player built from the SAME character record, so both
held a copy of one bag and whichever wrote last won: drop the single
potion from both copies and two potions hit the floor. Reconciling two
live mirrors of one record cannot be made to work, so the handshake
refuses the second connection -- the newcomer, not the incumbent, or
claiming an account would be a way to kick anyone off the server.

A muzzle offset is a teleport and the bullet pool never sees it: it
samples geometry once per tick. Forward that is 19px, but Doubleshot
adds up to 45px sideways, wider than a 32px wall plus the 6px hitbox
holding you off it. Six Doubleshots, stand flush against a wall, fire
along it, and live shots came out the far side. Shots now start from the
shooter when geometry stands in the way, which keeps the count honest.

Bullet-spawn events carry the firing actor's exact position, and they
were filtered by a flat 2900-unit radius against an 800-unit actor cull.
A depth-1 map's diagonal is about 2521, so that radius culled nothing:
every enemy that fired was pinpointed for every player, through fog, on
terrain the client was deliberately not streamed. The test is now
per bullet -- can THIS one reach ground you can see -- which keeps the
guarantee the wide radius existed for and drops the radar.

Found while fixing the above: a rejection never reached the client. The
RPC is queued and only leaves on the frame's flush, so kicking in the
same call threw the reason away, and _on_server_disconnected overwrote
last_error anyway. Both were true of protocol mismatch too, which is the
one message a player most needs. Smoke asserts the reason arrives.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-07 17:04:05 +02:00
claudeandClaude Opus 5 b351bc2d55 Stage 4: upgrades, and a quartermaster to spend them at
ci / verify (push) Successful in 48s
Every level banks one choice. Choices queue, and are spent at an NPC in the
hub: walk to it, press E, take one of three weighted options. Seven upgrades,
all data — split shot, glass cannon, spread, sniper, doubleshot, poison,
eraser — and SimWorld gained no per-upgrade branch to run any of them.

The four ambiguities in the brief were settled with the user first, since
each changes what gets written:

  damage      base x (1 + sum additive) x product multiplicative. The flat
              +5% every upgrade carries, spread's -10%, doubleshot's -50%
              and glass cannon's +100% pool; sniper multiplies on top, so
              two snipers is 4x and not +200%.
  glass       half the LEVELLED maximum, multiplying if taken twice, so the
              price does not fade to a rounding error by level 15.
  poison      independent stacks, not a refresh.
  split       +/-45 degrees from the original heading.

Independent poison stacks sound expensive and are not: every dose lasts the
same number of ticks, so doses expire in the order they were added, the
pending expiries are a plain FIFO, and PoisonTrack only ever looks at its
front. O(1) per actor per tick however many are live.

Stats are derived from the upgrade list and never stored, the way level is
derived from experience -- a saved stat cannot disagree with the upgrades
that produced it. Upgrade riders (split charges, poison, erase chance) travel
on the bullet instead, because a shot in flight has to keep what it was fired
with rather than gaining Poison because the shooter just took it.

Two invariants this collided with, both now pinned:

  - bullet speed gained a ceiling. Wall collision samples once per tick, so
    anything over a tile per tick tunnels; two snipers asked for 2480 u/s
    against a 1920 threshold, and a tunnelling bullet looks like a bullet.
  - BULLET_INTEREST_RADIUS rose to 2900, because an upgraded player shot is
    now the longest-travelling bullet in the game. test_interest measured
    the worst case from static content, which upgrades quietly invalidated.

Choosing is intent checked three ways: a choice must be owed, the index must
name one of the three options the SERVER put on the table, and the player
must be standing at the NPC. The offer is rolled once and persisted, so
closing the screen is not a reroll and neither is a crash.

tools/diag_upgrades.tscn covers level -> banked choice -> refused in a
dungeon and refused across the room -> taken at the NPC -> new stats ->
on disk. Bots never walk to the quartermaster, so the smoke test cannot.

Known gap recorded in the roadmap: at PLAYER_BULLET_DAMAGE = 6, the +5% the
first upgrade carries rounds back to 6 and visibly does nothing. It comes out
right in aggregate, but the fix is a balance edit across content.gd and so is
the user's call.

check.sh clean, 357 tests, SMOKE PASS (18 assertions), all four diagnostics
green.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-06 15:34:58 +02:00
claudeandClaude Opus 5 a943aa19f6 Add a second dungeon: the Proving Grounds, a test harness you walk into
ci / verify (push) Successful in 47s
Two labelled portals now stand side by side in the hub. The Proving Grounds
runs the same generator, the same rooms, the same enemies and the same
four-phase Warden -- enemies at a fifth health, the boss at 288 instead of
3600, and trash dropping potions 80% of the time instead of 8%. A manual pass
over loot, the inventory, dropping and every boss phase takes a couple of
minutes rather than a quarter of an hour.

It is multipliers over the shared content rather than a parallel copy: a
duplicated Content would drift the first time anything was tuned, and
"identical but easier" would quietly stop being true. And it is a portal
rather than a launch flag, so the two can be compared back to back without
restarting the server -- which is most of the point.

Which dungeon you enter is resolved from the player's server-side position,
and PORTAL_USED carries the answer. There is deliberately no client message
that names a dungeon: one would let any client ask for the generous loot table
and bring the results back to the hub. Instance matching compares dungeon ids
too, so walking into one entrance can never drop you into the other's run on
timing alone.

SimWorld.portals replaces portal_pos/portal_enabled, enter_instance carries
the portal list and the dungeon id (the client needs the latter to scale the
boss bar's ceiling the way the server scaled the boss), and Protocol.VERSION
goes to 7.

Also pins what happens when two players reach for one item on the same tick:
exactly one gets it -- the loop is sequential and the pickup erases the entity
before the next player looks. The tie-break is join order rather than distance,
which is arbitrary rather than designed, so it is recorded as such.

Stale doc fixed while here: MapGen.build() still claimed the client rebuilds
the map from the seed, which has not been true since map streaming landed and
is the opposite of the rule.

check.sh clean, 288 tests, SMOKE PASS (18 assertions, both dungeon kinds
opened over a real socket), all three diagnostics green.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-04 21:34:41 +02:00
claude 4765bbce28 Stage 2: accounts, characters, permadeath, levels and experience
ci / verify (push) Successful in 47s
Identity is shaped like Steamworks so swapping to it is one subclass and no
schema change: the client presents an opaque ticket, the server validates it
into a stable 64-bit account id, and nothing downstream sees anything else.
LocalAuthProvider takes any ticket at face value -- insecure on purpose, and
labelled as such everywhere, because the point is the shape rather than the
security. Do not ship it.

Characters persist as JSON keyed by account. Account ids are written as decimal
strings because they are 64-bit and JSON numbers are doubles, which would
silently round them. A corrupt store aborts the server rather than starting
empty: starting empty looks like it worked and then saves over every character
on the first level-up.

Levels 1-15, +10 max health each, level DERIVED from lifetime experience rather
than stored beside it, so a hand-edited save cannot produce a level 12 character
with a level 3's experience. Experience is shared undivided across everyone
alive in the instance -- splitting it would make bringing a friend cost you
progress. A level-up heals by what it added, so gaining one mid-fight is relief
rather than a bar that moved further from full.

Death is permanent and unbinds the character entirely: no "return to the hub as
the character who just died", because the run is over. The record is retired,
never deleted. The five-character cap counts LIVING characters only -- counting
the dead would lock a player out of their own account after five deaths.

Verified by tools/diag_progression.tscn, which drives the real server through
kill -> xp -> level -> health and death -> retire -> roster. The bot smoke test
cannot cover that: bots are poor shots and rarely kill anything. Writing it
caught two real ordering bugs -- the death event was dispatched before the
payload that tells the player they died, and the dead character stayed bound to
the peer.

Also added --account and --store so several clients and test runs can coexist
on one machine. The smoke test now uses a scratch store; without it a rerun
resumed the previous run's characters and "a character was created" quietly
stopped being true.

193 tests. check.sh, test.sh, smoke.sh, diag_progression and diag_prediction
all pass.
2026-09-04 00:44:34 +02:00
claude 7af439341d Stage 1: tile maps, walls, fog of war, aggro, scrolling camera
ci / verify (push) Successful in 46s
Replaces the fixed centred arena with per-world tile geometry, which is the
foundation the remaining features sit on.

- MapGrid: tile grid with three independent flags -- blocks movement, bullets,
  sight -- so a pit stops feet but not bullets or eyes, and a barricade stops
  feet and bullets but not eyes. Circle collision with per-axis sliding, and
  Bresenham line of sight shared by fog and aggro.
- MapGen: rooms and corridors generated from (seed, depth), with hand-authored
  boss arenas from Rooms stamped in first so a corridor can never carve through
  a designed fight. Reachability from spawn to boss is asserted over 40 seeds --
  "usually connected" is the failure mode that ruins one run in twenty.
- Dungeons are populated at creation, per room, instead of gating on waves. You
  explore and choose your fights; the run ends when the boss dies, not when the
  map is swept. Boss rooms have no lock, so walking out is always available.
- Aggro: enemies need range AND line of sight, so a dungeon stays quiet until
  engaged and cover actually protects.
- Hard fog, scrolling camera, and terrain rendering.

Maps are streamed per peer in chunks around that peer's player, and the seed is
deliberately NOT sent -- a client holding it could regenerate the whole dungeon,
which is a map hack for free. Stream radius (900u) is wider than view radius
(460u) because the client predicts movement against walls and simulates bullets
that die on them; the accepted cost is a cheater seeing a little further than
the fog, never the floor plan.

Partial map knowledge means wall deaths must be announced rather than derived.
A test caught the subtle half of that: out-of-bounds tiles read as WALL by
design, so checking geometry before bounds reported every bullet leaving the map
as a wall kill.

128 tests (was 103); check.sh, test.sh and smoke.sh pass. 0.26 ms/tick with 4
players and a boss, ~65x headroom.
2026-09-03 20:49:27 +02:00
claude 005679f1b5 Fix bullet/ship desync; rework death, escape, arrival and hub awareness
(1) Bullets appeared to trail the ship. Two independent causes, measured with
the new tools/diag_prediction.gd rather than guessed at:
  - ServerRuntime ticked before ClientRuntime, so input sampled on frame N was
    not consumed until frame N+1, leaving the drawn ship a constant one tick
    (4.00px at 240 u/s) ahead of the authoritative one that bullets spawn from.
    ClientRuntime now sets process_physics_priority = -10. Gap on a listen
    server: 4.00px -> 0.10px mean, 0.30px worst.
  - PLAYER_MUZZLE_OFFSET was PLAYER_RADIUS + 6 = 12px against a 13px drawn
    ship, so bullets were born inside the sprite. Regression from the previous
    commit's hitbox shrink; it now derives from PLAYER_VISUAL_RADIUS.

(2) No more timed respawn. A downed player stays down until they ask for the
hub (E), which is an ordinary input -- the server has no "revive me" message.

(3) Escape channel 3s -> 1s, and damage no longer cancels it. An interruptible
channel makes killing the process strictly better than using the button, so a
dropped connection now runs the same channel: the player stays in the world as
linkdead, still killable, and is only released once it completes. Instances
refuse to close while a linkdead body is resolving, or a solo drop would delete
it on the next tick and hand the exploit straight back.

(4) Escape opens an in-game menu: return to hub (routed through the same held-
escape channel, not a new message), disconnect, quit.

(5) Server pushes a roster so the hub shows who is online and which dungeon
they are in. Entering a dungeon grants 2s arrival protection -- invulnerable
AND weapons-cold, since invulnerability alone would make the spawn a free
firing position -- flagged in the snapshot and drawn on every protected ship.

(6) Cleared dungeons hold the party 30s (was 5s) with a visible countdown.

(7) The hub's grey circle was a 100k-HP target dummy that read as scenery. Now
drawn as a bullseye so its purpose is legible.

Protocol version 1 -> 2. 91 tests (was 78); smoke.sh gains a bot that is
SIGKILLed mid-dungeon to prove the disconnect path end to end. check.sh,
test.sh and smoke.sh all pass.
2026-09-03 18:43:19 +02:00
claude c4beeae38f Initial commit: Transcience MVP
Top-down twin-stick bullet-hell, Godot 4.7, server-authoritative dedicated
server with client-side prediction. Clients send input only; the server
resolves every hit for both players and enemies (no PvP).

- SimWorld: whole simulation as plain RefCounted objects (no nodes, no
  physics server), ~0.24ms/tick at peak load -- runs headless for free and
  drives 78 tests in under a second
- BulletPool: struct-of-arrays bullet storage, replicated as spawn/despawn
  events rather than per-tick state
- Emitter framework (Ring/AimedSpread/WallGap/ArcSweep) shared by trash
  enemies and bosses -- a new boss is data in src/content/content.gd, no
  simulation changes
- The Warden of the Fold: stationary 4-phase boss built entirely on that
  format
- Lobby hub with a portal into on-demand dungeon instances; one process
  hosts the hub plus every concurrent dungeon
- Emergency escape: 3s server-owned channel, cancelled by damage
- tools/check.sh, test.sh (GUT), smoke.sh (real server + bot clients over
  ENet), bench.gd; git hooks wired to the same scripts
- docs/ARCHITECTURE.md, NETCODE.md, WORKFLOW.md, ROADMAP.md
2026-09-03 16:03:57 +02:00