# VINYLGOD — creative direction

One page. If a change fights these pillars, the change is wrong.

## The fantasy
You are fighting a war over whether music gets to be a *thing you hold*.
Every match is a loudness war made literal.

## Pillars

**1. Loud is strong.**
Sound is territory. MRP units fight harder *In The Mix* (within earshot of an
Amp Stack, +25% firepower). Stream units run *Low Latency* near an Edge Node
(+30% speed). Forward speaker placement is forward strategy. Any new mechanic
should ask: does this make sound more physical?

**2. The ground remembers.**
Wax seeps regrow the fields. Explosions scar the asphalt. Groove-etched ground
marks where the Black Wax surfaced. Battles should leave the map looking
*played*, like a record collects crackle.

**3. Everything is a record.**
Weapons are thrown 45s, rotors are LPs, the superweapon is a tonearm. If an
asset could belong in a generic sci-fi RTS, redesign it until it couldn't.

**4. The Party is loud; the Stream is polite.**
MRP: rust, hot pink, gaffer tape, warm voices, drums. Stream: seamless white,
ring lights, customer-service menace, no corners. MRP text shouts. Stream text
apologises while it deletes you. Never swap these voices.

**5. Real stakes, cartoon delivery.**
Music is being erased forever — and the robots are having the time of their
lives defending it. No grimdark. Loss lines hurt ("THE NEEDLE HAS LIFTED"),
win lines are needle-drops.

## Hard rules (inherited, non-negotiable)
- 100% original content, generated locally, provenance logged in
  assets_src/PROMPTS.md. No EA anything. GPL v3 everything.
- Balance claims require a 5-match arena series (MEGAPLAN §5b), not vibes.
- Verify with tools/smoketest.sh — a live process is not a passing game.