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LANE8: scales that swing, bags that don't open, and fruit you can throw
The three things the greengrocer was still missing, plus the physics bug that
finding them uncovered.
HANGING SCALES. Real PinJoint3D pendulums, not animations: a static dial and
rod, and a scale-pan rigid body pinned at its own origin so it can only rotate
about the pivot. They hang at chest height down the aisles — dial at eye level,
dish below — where a real shop scale hangs and where you keep walking into it.
The dish swings 0.40 m off a light knock and the pin holds the pivot to 1.1 mm.
The pan is steel so it never breaks; what you get is a heavy brass weight loose
in a room full of stacked fruit.
THE BAG YOU CANNOT OPEN. Tearing one off the roll is the easy half — that's the
setup. Then you have to open it, and the bag has two ends, only one of which
opens, and nothing tells you which. Rubbing alternates arrow keys, because
mashing one key is not rubbing. Either the meter climbs or it doesn't, and the
only way to learn which end you're holding is to have already lost several
seconds to the other one. SPACE turns it over. That is the whole solution and
the game never says so.
CARRY AND THROW. E picks up anything under 6 kg that isn't a record; LMB throws
it at 11 m/s, six times any brittle threshold in the game. Thrown fruit bursts
on landing through the same brittle_speed path a collapse uses — no separate
thrown-object code at all.
Then the part that took the longest. Round produce got sphere colliders (a box
on an apple is why nothing ever rolled) and every display in the shop instantly
fell over. Three separate things were wrong:
- the stack radii were TYPED, not measured. The table said a cabbage was
84 mm; the model is 213 mm, so that pyramid was built with every row driven
a third of the way into the row below it. Main._glb_radius() reads the asset.
- the lattice was box geometry. For spheres the rise per row is
sqrt(4r^2 - step^2/2) — the height at which a fruit touches all four
beneath it. Anything else spawns every row above the first in mid-air.
- there was no tray. A pyramid of spheres on a bare flat table cannot stand;
nothing holds the bottom row in, so the weight above wedges it outward and
the display walks itself apart in a second. Main._stack_tray() frames each
pile in four low timber walls sized to its base row, which is what every
greengrocer on earth already does.
All 310 bodies asleep within 3 s.
While chasing that, the spawn guard fired on a cardboard box in the OFFICE. The
guard is a net, not a test: it only catches a pair Jolt happens to resolve
violently on the frames it's watching, and this one had been interpenetrating
in four levels for weeks. dev/probe_overlap.gd now finds them by measurement,
comparing every pair of dynamic colliders across all six sites. It found 15,
including a row of filing cabinets 0.70 m apart that are 0.80 m wide, and a
stapler inside a monitor. The box asset is 1.35 m across, so boxes are now
stacked into piles rather than dotted about, and the Backrooms scatter uses
rejection sampling with a 1.6 m minimum. All six sites read CLEAN.
Also: the rage veins were drawing every branch from its own start point
regardless of how far the trunk had grown, so at low rage you got disconnected
fragments floating mid-screen that read as biro scribble rather than blood. A
branch now can't appear before the trunk carrying it, and trunks are thick and
dark where capillaries are fine and pale.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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LANE7: the Gauntlet, four modes, two more provocations, and ambient attrition
THE GAUNTLET (Gauntlet.gd + Cabinet.gd)
Five identical cabinets, each with its alphabetical range on a Label3D. The brief names
a CLIENT, never a cabinet, so working out that HENDERSON lives in F-J is the puzzle —
no waypoint, nothing glows. Destruction is granular on purpose: pull a drawer, it
slides out on a spring and goes live, and the folders inside become individual
smashables. Doing that by hand inside the clock isn't really possible.
The perfect tool: every site hides a SHREDDER that eats a whole open drawer at once,
and the game never says so. Noticing it and working out what it's for IS the level.
Getting it wrong isn't fatal, just slow — the right shape for a secret, since it
rewards the observant without hard-failing everyone else.
Each site nominates its own records area in its spec. Building the bank 3.4 m in front
of wherever the player happened to be standing put it through walls.
MODES (Modes.gd, M cycles)
CUBICLE HELL the main loop
THE GAUNTLET above
TOTAL DESTRUCTION no job, no pay, clear the site, scored on time
AGAINST THE CLOCK fixed timer, maximise damage VALUE — the exact inverse of Cubicle
Hell, where expensive things become the goal rather than the
mistake. Same level, opposite instinct.
Entering a mode arms only what that mode needs; Cubicle Hell and the Gauntlet are
mutually exclusive, because you cannot be doing your job and shredding the Henderson
file at the same time.
TWO MORE PROVOCATIONS (Tasks.gd)
STAPLES SPACE lifts a staple, then it must be pulled the way it's bent — and it's
bent differently each time. Dither and the sheet tears, bundle reprints.
GUILLOTINE align to a mark and cut. The guide has a PERMANENT offset and nothing on
screen admits it. Once you work out the error it's easy, which is the
joke: you have to learn to distrust the equipment.
Desks now alternate spreadsheet/staples so "a desk" isn't always the same minigame.
AMBIENCE (Ambience.gd) — the attrition you can't play around. The tube above your desk
flickers, and actually flickers the real lights. Fish in the microwave. A phone ringing
four desks away. Reply-all, forty-one recipients, "thanks!". Small periodic ticks with
no interaction at all; it's what makes the room hostile rather than merely beige.
Fixes: the payslip was rendering over the Gauntlet (it belongs to Cubicle Hell, and only
once the shift has actually ended); gauntlet drawer reach was 2.0 m when the true
distance from standing-at-a-cabinet to a bottom drawer is over 2 m.
dev/probe_gauntlet.gd drives a whole run headlessly — mode switch, labels, open every
drawer, shred, win — because that catches the failure that matters: a run you can't
finish because the files never become destroyable.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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LANE7: CUBICLE HELL — the tilt loop, the job, and the payslip
The game stopped being a smash sandbox. You work a shift, the work provokes you, a
meter fills, you snap, and you cannot go back to your desk until you have broken
enough things. Then you sit back down and try to earn the rest of your day.
The score is your payslip: WAGES (tasks completed) - DAMAGES (everything you broke).
The load-bearing detail is that rage drains a FLAT amount per object destroyed while
each object bills at its OWN value — so during a meltdown the play is to wreck a lot
of cheap rubbish fast rather than put the sledgehammer through a filing cabinet. You
don't choose whether you lose your temper, you choose how much it costs. FURY (objects
broken while melting down) is tracked separately and deliberately isn't money, so
"I ended the shift owing them $2,400" stays a brag.
Rage.gd — WORKING -> MELTDOWN -> COOLDOWN. During a meltdown the clock STALLS if you
stop destroying; you must actually be breaking things.
RageOverlay.gd — the blood vessel. A vignette that closes in with rage and jumps
inward on every heartbeat, procedural veins that creep further into frame the angrier
you get, and a synthesized lub-dub going 62 -> 172 BPM. Zero assets: the shader is
built in code, the veins are draw_polyline from a seeded RNG, the heartbeat is a
generated WAV. Tops out as a heavy frame rather than a red screen — you have to be
able to see what you're about to destroy.
Tasks.gd — stations you walk to and are LOCKED IN PLACE at, because you're at your
desk and that's the joke. Two so far:
SPREADSHEET the selected cell silently drifts one cell partway through entry, with
no sound and no animation. Commit without noticing and the figure lands
in the wrong cell and you start again. This is the whole thesis of the
game in about forty lines.
PHOTOCOPIER jams, and wants the right tray out of 1, 2, 2A, 3, 3B.
Snapping ejects you from the station at no penalty — you didn't choose to walk away.
CubicleHell.gd — 5-minute shift, wages vs damages, meltdown count, end-of-shift
payslip with a verdict line.
Also: HUD gets a monospace face (Godot's fallback is proportional, so the spreadsheet
grid and the work-order docket never lined up), and the arcade HUD's headline becomes
net pay, red when negative.
LANES/LANE7-cubicle-hell.md captures the rest of the design: more provocations, the
GAUNTLET mode (find which of many cabinets, pull drawers, destroy files individually,
and work out which tool the level wants without being told), the other three
workplaces, and why doratracyer/floor_plan can't help — it's OpenSCAD SVG->STL for
3D printing, no generation, no room polygons, GPL-3.0. Office.gd is already most of
a parametric floor-plan builder; lifting its numbers into a data spec is the real path.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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LANE6: LEVEL 01 is an office — Dunder Mifflin floor plan, and a spawn guard
The game had no room. Props sat on a grey disc in a black void, which quietly broke the premise: a game about wrecking your workplace needs a workplace. Office.gd — LEVEL 01 - Open-plan office laid out after The Office (US) floor plan: bullpen of facing desk pairs behind cubicle partitions, reception, glass-walled manager's office, conference room, break room with vending machines, copier alcove, warehouse roller door. - Drop ceiling on a T-bar grid with fluorescent troffers that ARE the light sources (the old scene lit an interior with one outdoor directional lamp, which is exactly why it read as "props on a plane"), window wall with blinds, magnolia and carpet. - Office owns the shell + static fittings; Main._populate() owns everything smashable and asks Office where things go. Walls/desks/counters are boxes because they ARE boxes; chairs, vending machines, microwave and plant come from a new Blender generator (tools/gen_office_props.py) because a box reads as wrong for those. The level no longer falls over on its own - Records were stacked 3 cm apart vertically while being 30 cm TALL, so Jolt resolved 27 cm of interpenetration explosively on frame one and shoved the furniture over before the player touched anything. They now stand side by side. - Per-material mass (MASSES): everything was 1 kg, so a thrown record could tip a filing cabinet. - Spawn guard: placing ~40 props by formula guarantees an occasional overlap, and depenetration is violent (a chair left the building at 500 m/s). Dynamic bodies are speed-limited for 0.75 s, and each offender is named once with the position it was PLACED at, so the cause stays visible instead of being papered over. It then found the real bug: bullpen rows 3.6 m apart left the two rows' chairs meeting back-to-back with 3 cm to spare. Rows are now 4.8 m apart. - dev/DemoDriver.gd act 0 touches nothing for 5 s and prints total body speed. Now reads 0.00 m/s with zero spawn warnings. Two real melee bugs found while testing the level - The hit test was a SPHERE parked at `reach`, so anything CLOSER than the weapon's reach fell in front of it and was missed — you could stand against the printer with a sledgehammer and swing straight through it. Now a capsule swept from the camera. - Swings started at eye height (1.6 m), so a carton on the floor was ~1.5 m away even standing over it and short-reach weapons could never touch anything on the ground. Swings now originate at hand height. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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LANE6: rigged FPS viewmodel, weapon loadout + material matrix, 4 HUD styles
Hands/POV - Cut a real first-person arms rig out of the GODVERSE modular character kit (tools/gen_fps_arms.py): ch01 hands + per-side sleeves on the full 65-bone mixamorig skeleton, so all 20 finger bones per hand are poseable at runtime. Textures shrunk to 1k; 4.2 MB. - ViewModel.gd instances that rig ONCE PER HAND and places each instance so its own hand bone lands on the grip — no IK. Grip orientation is measured off the rig at load (pinky->index knuckle = bore axis, elbow->hand = forearm dir), so it survives re-tuning grip_rest_rot instead of needing new euler angles. - Motion layers: look-sway with spring-back, walk bob scaled by speed and weapon heft, idle breathe, landing dip, weapon lower/raise on swap. - Sleeve material overridden (donor asset is a fantasy leather bracer); hand material forced non-metallic (its spec/gloss maps rendered skin as bronze). Weapons - Weapon.gd replaces MeleeAttack: 6 weapons, 4 swing archetypes, and the weapon-vs-material matrix from the founding chat. - Smashable moves from binary hits_to_break to hp/toughness, giving three outcomes: break, dent, or futile (dead clank, no score, HUD nudge). The box cutter genuinely shreds cardboard and genuinely cannot hurt a filing cabinet. - The hit lands at Weapon.contact THROUGH the swing, not on the click — that delay is most of why the sledge feels different from the cutter. - Slots on 1-6 / wheel / Q; game modes moved to M, HUD cycle to H. HUD - Hud.gd: Arcade, Minimal, Work Order (a corporate destruction docket that fills in line items) and Dev, over one shared data feed. Scoring + combo multipliers. Dev harness (not shipped) - macOS screen-recording perms aren't available to the CLI, so the game records itself: dev/demo.tscn + DemoDriver.gd drive a scripted tour for --write-movie, and dev/probe_*.gd print rig/scale/placement numbers. Fix: tools/gen_viewmodel.py box() scaled by size/2 on top of primitive_cube_add's already-unit side length, halving every box — which detached the bat's blade. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> |
