Visit The Shed and one of the locals is waiting on the driveway with a
broken shitbox and cash: their actual car model parked there under a
floating Label3D job sign -- who they are, what they reckon is wrong
("it makes a noise at church speed"), the honest fault name, and the
offer. Pull up beside it and hold still to take the job; the wrench
minigame opens on THEIR car.
The roster is the extended universe: Nanna, P-Plate Pepper, Mullet
Merv, Torque'n Tezza, the Self-Described Bathurst Legend, Your Mate
Dazza (don't tell Shazza), Karen from Number 12, and the Widowmaker,
who says nothing and pays cash. Roster and fault rotate
deterministically off jobs_done.
Settlement: full pay at 60+, a $50 tip at 85+, half below 60 -- and
SHED REP moves with the workmanship (+3 clean, -6 botched, cap 40),
scaling the next offer from 70% of shop rate at rep 0 to 100% at cap.
Rep shows on the menu and garage header. Customer jobs bank NO quality
buffs: the customer's car id might be a car the player owns, and
fixing Merv's Kingswood must not secretly tune yours -- the wrench
consumes Garage.ui_customer and routes _finish to customer_done()
instead of clear_fault/set_quality.
The shed guards the spawn (parent is Game and mode == cruise) so the
wrench scene's backdrop copy of the level never summons a customer
mid-job. The spare parked shitbox moves to the kerb; the driveway
belongs to commerce now.
Smoke: customer waits after a shed visit, holding beside the spot takes
the job (flag-guarded for headless), the driven wrench job pays, rep
rises, the driveway clears, and the customer's own-car quality stays
untouched.
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The game is now called Shitbox Infinity (project name, window title,
title screen, README). The Gitea repo keeps its name until John renames
it -- gitea redirects, and the remote gets a set-url then.
The Shed (levels/the_shed) is the payoff for the whole garage arc: a
drivable suburban block on a quiet cul-de-sac. Single-storey brick
house with a corrugated roof and a porch light that works at night;
paling fence (new FLUX texture) with a gate gap for the driveway; hills
hoist mid-spin with three towels on it; wheelie bins at the gate and a
spare fleet shitbox parked on the street; gums; neighbours across the
road so you feel watched.
The shed itself is a 10x12 corrugated double garage on a slab: FLUX
pegboard wall, workbench, fluoro batten (a real light at night), and a
painted bay. The tools you OWN (Garage.tools()) stand in it as the real
TRELLIS'd cashies models -- sockets and the code reader ON the bench,
the engine crane by the wall, ramps at the bay mouth -- while unowned
tools leave an oil-stained outline of where they'll go. The rest of the
tool library is permanent clutter via the new shared ToolProps helper
(dragway.gd refactored onto it too).
Roll into the bay in Cruise, hold still 1.4 s, and game.gd opens the
garage -- diegetic shopping. Headless suites have no current_scene to
swap, so the trigger sets garage_requested first and the smoke suite
asserts on that: owned-tool display (sockets present, ramps absent on
the test save), bay marker found, bay trigger fires. Suite covers 9
levels now.
Scale lessons baked in: facade_brick at 0.14 tiling reads as a
three-storey office (0.045 reads domestic), and corrugated iron at 0.35
has metre-wide ridges (1.4 reads like roofing).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
