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The Cantor gets its own portal; bullets stop strobing
A dungeon now names the boss arena it ends in, and the arena decides the boss.
Three entrances in the hub: Warden's Descent, The Choir Vault, Proving Grounds.

That replaces the seed coin-flip from the last commit, which was the wrong
call. Which boss you are about to fight is the single thing a player decides
before walking into a dungeon, and rolling it for them makes that decision
unavailable. Only the Proving Grounds still leaves its arena open, because a
harness you re-enter every couple of minutes wants whichever fight comes up
first -- and it is the one place where "either will do" is true.

test_every_boss_has_a_dungeon_that_reaches_it is the check that matters here:
adding a boss and forgetting to give it a way in is now a failing test rather
than a boss nobody meets. The smoke test asserts all three portals open over a
real socket -- bots pick theirs by account id, so a run exercises each.

Bullets no longer animate. The sheet's eight frames are a COLOUR cycle rather
than a shape change, so running it had every bullet on screen strobing through
a palette in unison, which with a few hundred in the air is exactly as hard to
look at as it sounds. Each bullet holds one frame and turns slowly instead,
offset by its own id so a ring of twenty does not rotate as one rigid wheel.
The rate is slow enough that nothing completes a full turn inside its own
lifetime, so it reads as drift rather than spin, and a test pins that against
the longest-lived bullet in the game. The renderer slices four textures at
startup now instead of thirty-two.

check.sh clean, 414 tests, SMOKE PASS (22 assertions), all four diagnostics
green.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-07 10:36:06 +02:00
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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 on the ring in the hub to enter a dungeon, hold F for three seconds to escape back to the hub.

Develop

tools/check.sh    # parse-check every script      ~5s
tools/test.sh     # GUT suite, headless           ~2s
tools/smoke.sh    # server + 2 bot clients, ENet  ~35s
godot --headless --path . --script tools/bench.gd

Read CLAUDE.md first — it is short, and the Godot CLI gotchas in it will otherwise cost an afternoon.

What is here

Twin-stick bullet hell Server-simulated bullet field, ~350 concurrent bullets at 0.24 ms/tick.
Authoritative multiplayer Clients send input only. Hits, damage, death and instance transfers are server decisions. Prediction + reconciliation for the local player.
Enemies Four readable behaviours (static, drift, orbit, approach, strafe) composed with bullet emitters.
Boss The Warden of the Fold: stationary, four phases, each adding one idea. Defined entirely as data.
Lobby hub Shared persistent instance with a portal into dungeon runs.
Emergency escape Three-second channel back to the hub, cancelled by damage.

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