type-two caac3da930 First-five-minutes pass: heartbeat, spark beacons, flythrough, mining juice, og tags ...

The systems were all there but the opening experience sagged: a new player
spawned into a dark, silent booth with no idea they're tiny or that
anything is broken. Five fixes, all verified live:

- The dying booth has a HEARTBEAT: a slow muffled lub-dub (~55bpm sine
  thumps, lowpassed, positional from inside the mixer) while zero repairs
  are done. First repair silences it with real music; a reset revives it.
- Broken quest nodes SPARK: intermittent blue-white electric crackles at
  each unrepaired fixture (FxSystem.setBeacons, anchored from QUEST_POS) -
  diegetic breadcrumbs visible across the booth.
- First-visit FLYTHROUGH: 9 skippable seconds - wide booth reveal, sweep
  over the mixer, dive to spawn - riding the existing cine override.
  Teaches 'you are tiny in a DJ booth' better than any text.
- Mining JUICE: new 'block:mining' bus event (~8Hz while held) drives
  grey chip particles + rising-pitch ticks; throttle resets per target.
- og/twitter meta tags + public/preview.jpg so sharing the link unfurls
  with the hero shot.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

2026-07-20 18:01:37 +10:00

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