claudeandClaude Opus 5.5
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The long-standing smoke flake -- failing now and then, always first in a pre-push hook whose logs were discarded -- finally failed with its logs kept. bot1, whose account picks the Proving Grounds, had gone into the Choir Vault, so "the proving grounds opened" never matched. The bot wandered a full-speed Lissajous for 90 of every 120 ticks in the hub, then walked toward its entrance for 30 holding interact the entire way. The three entrances sit in a row, so a wander that happened to end near the middle one sent the bot bound for the right-hand portal across the Choir Vault's ring with the key down, and in it went. Where the wander stopped depended on network timing, which is why it was intermittent and why it never reproduced on demand. The bot now walks straight to its own entrance and presses interact only while standing on that one. Six consecutive smoke runs pass. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Transcience
Top-down twin-stick bullet-hell with a dedicated, server-authoritative backend. Godot 4.7, GDScript, no external runtime dependencies.
Play
tools/server.sh # dedicated server on :27015
tools/client.sh --join --name ada # connect a client
Or run one client and press Host and play for a listen server.
Controls — WASD move, mouse aim, LMB fire, E to pick up loot and to use the hub's portals and quartermaster, 1–4 use an inventory slot, shift+1–4 drop one, hold F for one second to escape a dungeon, Esc menu, F1 hitbox overlay. Every one of those is rebindable in Settings.
What is here
| Twin-stick bullet hell | Server-simulated bullet field, ~300 concurrent bullets at 0.28 ms/tick — around 60x headroom against the 60 Hz budget. |
| Authoritative multiplayer | Clients send input and nothing else. Hits, damage, death, loot, upgrades and instance transfers are all server decisions. Prediction and reconciliation for the local player. |
| Enemies | Five readable movements (static, drift, orbit, approach, strafe) composed with bullet emitters. Nothing deals contact damage; every threat is a bullet you can see. |
| Two bosses | The Warden of the Fold stands still through four phases. The Cantor of the Vault walks a circuit, chases, orbits, and marks the floor before it strikes. Both are pure data. |
| Three dungeons | Two real runs, one per boss, plus a Proving Grounds: the same content at a fraction of the health and ten times the drop rate, for testing by hand. |
| Characters | Up to five living per account, permadeath, levels 1–15, experience shared across the party undivided. |
| Inventory and loot | Four slots, always on screen. Loot is either world-shared or instanced per player, and the instanced kind is filtered on the wire rather than hidden in the client. |
| Upgrades | Seven, drawn three at a time and spent at a hub NPC. Damage, fire rate, extra projectiles, splitting, poison, and a legendary that deletes enemy bullets. |
| Emergency escape | A one-second channel back to the hub that damage does not interrupt — because if it did, quitting the process would be the better escape. Dropping your connection runs the same channel. |
| Settings | Rebindable controls and volumes, and an in-game credits screen. |
Develop
tools/check.sh # parse-check every script ~5s
tools/test.sh # 468 GUT tests, headless ~4s
tools/smoke.sh # server + 4 bot clients over ENet ~40s
Read CLAUDE.md first — it is short, and the Godot CLI gotchas in it will otherwise cost an afternoon.
Docs
- docs/ROADMAP.md — what is built, what is next, where each feature lives
- docs/DECISIONS.md — settled design decisions and their reasoning
- docs/ARCHITECTURE.md — code map and the node-free simulation
- docs/NETCODE.md — replication model, hit validation, known gaps
- docs/WORKFLOW.md — agent-assisted Godot development, and the verification traps this project has actually hit
- docs/ASSETS.md — asset packs and their licence findings
- CREDITS.md — third-party attribution
- CLAUDE.md — commands, invariants, Godot CLI gotchas
Not ready for the internet
LocalAuthProvider lets any client claim any account id. It exists to have the
same shape as Steamworks so swapping is one class, and it must be replaced
before this is reachable from anywhere untrusted. There is no transport
encryption either. See docs/ROADMAP.md.