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LANE7: LEVEL 0 gets an entity, a tape, and a loop
THE ENTITY (Entity.gd) borrows from three places and each borrowing does a job:
SLENDERMAN it does not move while you look at it, and has closed the distance every
time you look back. Looking is ALSO what builds the static — so the safe
option (keep it in view) kills you slowly and the fast option (run) lets
it catch up. That's the trap, and it's why Slender worked.
XENOMORPH it hunts SOUND, and the thing you came here to do is smash furniture.
Every break and every puff of powder drops a marker it walks toward.
Playing well is what feeds it. A loud enough noise overrides the freeze,
because staring is a valid answer to a stalker and not a valid answer to
something that just heard a sledgehammer hit a filing cabinet.
BLAIR WITCH the level wraps: walk far enough and you come out of the opposite wall
into the same room, because every room here IS the same room. A wrap is
also when it repositions, so "I've been here before" and "it's already
here" land in the same second.
It can't be fought. Getting caught doesn't kill you — it costs a lungful, a spike of
rage, and the knowledge that it can do that whenever it likes.
Deliberately unresolved design: 2.5 m, faceless, arms past the knees, cranium swept
backwards. Slenderman from the front, something else in profile. A silhouette your brain
finishes beats a monster it recognises. Blair Witch stick totems hang in the maze.
THE TAPE (Dread.gd) — one shader: grain, scanlines, chroma split, a wandering tracking
tear, an edge that breathes when it's near but unseen, and Slender interference driven
straight off the stare. The static IS the read-out; there's no meter for it.
TWO BUGS WORTH THE COMMIT MESSAGE
1. `seen_now` was a pure view-cone test with NO line of sight, so it built static
through walls — and in a maze that's most of the time.
2. Fixing that exposed the real one: the generated maze was so dense there was no
sightline longer than a few metres ANYWHERE, which kills the entity outright, since
a stalker you can never see can never be stared at. Thinned the generator — skip a
third of the lattice lines, much bigger gaps — which also matches the reference
photographs far better. They're mostly open floor with occasional slabs, not
corridors.
dev/probe_horror.gd verifies all of it headlessly, including hunting for a clear
sightline first (otherwise the Slender test silently tests nothing).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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LANE7: LEVEL 0 — the Backrooms, generated walls, and the dust mechanic
"stuff is invisible have to release dust or gas or something to coat items to see them to destroy them? and you inhale some of it too" THE SITE (Levels.backrooms) Mono-yellow, 2.55 m ceiling, damp carpet, a dense grid of buzzing troffers, no windows and no exit. THE WALLS ARE GENERATED — this is the site that proves the Floorplan spec can be emitted rather than authored: a seeded RNG lays partial wall runs on a 4.6 m lattice with random gaps, plus 22 freestanding pillars. It follows the reference photos rather than a maze algorithm on purpose — the Backrooms aren't corridors, they're big offset slabs in an open floor, and a proper maze would be legible. Legible is wrong. THE MECHANIC (Dust.gd) — it argues with itself, which is the whole point. Everything smashable here is invisible but SOLID; you find things by walking into them. RMB with the extinguisher throws a cloud of powder. Anything it touches is coated, glows faintly out of all that yellow for 7 seconds, then settles back into nothing. And you breathe it. Every cloud puts a little in your lungs, and the haze that builds is on YOUR side of the glass. So: spray more to see individual objects, and see the room less. Past 72% you cough — camera jolt, screen bloom, and a rage tick, because of course it does. Intended rhythm is spray -> switch to something heavy -> break it before the coating settles -> spray again, coughing. Pairs with TOTAL DESTRUCTION, since the level IS a search. Tuning that mattered: the first cloud was a wall of big blocky quads that hid the very thing it was revealing (150 finer, shorter-lived particles now), and a coated object has to POP out of a room that is entirely one colour, so the coat is near-white and faintly self-lit rather than a subtle tint. 78 objects, not 34 — a search with nothing in it is just a walk. Bug found while testing: `x as Smashable` on a freed object is itself an error in Godot 4, so the validity check has to come BEFORE the cast — destroying anything mid-level was spewing "trying to cast a freed object" every frame. dev/probe_backrooms.gd verifies the whole loop headlessly, including that the mechanic does NOT leak into the other four sites when you leave. All five sites still settle to 0.00 m/s. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> |
