destroyulator/game/scripts/Backrooms.gd

extends Node
class_name Backrooms

## LEVEL 0's horror layer: the entity, the loop, the totems, and the scares.
##
## THE LOOP is the Blair Witch bit and the most important part. Walk far enough in any
## direction and you come out of the opposite wall — into the same room, because the maze
## is generated from a fixed seed and every part of it looks like every other part. You
## get a lurch, a tear on the tape, and the growing certainty that you have been here.
##
## Crucially, a wrap is also when the entity gets to reposition. So "I've been here
## before" and "it's already here" arrive in the same second, which is a far better
## scare than either on its own.
##
## THE NOISE RULE ties the horror to the game: the entity hunts sound, and the objective
## is to break things. Playing well is what feeds it. Playing quietly means not playing.
##
## Godot 4.7 GDScript 2.0.

const TOTEM := "res://assets/store/totem.glb"

## DREAD is the death meter, and it is deliberately the ONLY new number.
##
## A health bar would be a foreign object in this game — nothing else does damage, and
## adding hit points just to have something to subtract from is how you end up with a
## survival-horror UI bolted to a demolition game. So instead: one meter, fed by every
## way this place gets at you, and at 100% you die.
##
## Which death you get depends on WHICH input pushed it over, so the three memes stay
## distinguishable in the moment it matters:
##   STARE  you looked too long, and the static took you.       (Slenderman)
##   REACH  it got to you.                                       (gory; the xenomorph)
##   LOOP   you walked the same room too many times.             (Blair Witch)
enum Death { NONE, STARE, REACH, LOOP }

const DREAD_FROM_STARE := 0.155     ## per second at full stare pressure
const DREAD_FROM_NEAR := 0.085      ## per second when it's right behind you, unseen
const DREAD_FROM_LOOP := 0.11       ## per wrap
const DREAD_FROM_LUNGS := 0.030     ## per second while you're coughing your guts up
const DREAD_CALM := 0.055           ## per second when nothing is happening to you
## Every loop makes the place better at this. Twelve loops and it barely lets go.
const DREAD_LOOP_GRIP := 0.055

## How close to the outer wall triggers a wrap.
const WRAP_MARGIN := 1.4
## Seconds after a wrap before another can fire (stops thrashing on a corner).
const WRAP_COOLDOWN := 1.2

var active := false
var entity: Entity
var tape: Dread                     ## the found-footage layer
var other: Entity                   ## THE OTHER ONE — inverted rules, see Entity.Kind
## Loops before the second one turns up. You get long enough to learn the first set of
## rules properly, and then they stop being true.
const OTHER_AFTER_LOOPS := 3
var rage: Rage
var dust: Dust

var loops := 0                      ## how many times the room has come back around
var caught := 0
var dread := 0.0                    ## 0..1 — the death meter
var dying := false
var death_cause: int = Death.NONE
var gore: Gore

var _death_t := 0.0
var _death_from := Transform3D.IDENTITY

var _player: Node3D
var _cam: Camera3D
var _hud: Hud
var _host: Node3D
var _half := 19.0
var _wrap_cd := 0.0
var _totems: Array[Node3D] = []
var _next_whisper := 0.0

## Lines that fire on a wrap. Deliberately flat — the room is doing the work.
const WRAP_LINES := [
	"…you've been here.",
	"this is the same room.",
	"you turned left. you have always turned left.",
	"the carpet has the same stain.",
	"you are further in than you were.",
	"it was behind you a moment ago.",
]

func setup(player: Node3D, cam: Camera3D, hud: Hud, r: Rage, d: Dust,
		host: Node3D) -> void:
	_player = player
	_cam = cam
	_hud = hud
	rage = r
	dust = d
	_host = host

	tape = Dread.new()
	tape.setup()
	host.add_child(tape)

	gore = Gore.new()
	gore.setup()
	host.add_child(gore)

	entity = Entity.new()
	host.add_child(entity)
	entity.setup(player, cam, _half, Entity.Kind.HUNTER)
	entity.caught_you.connect(_on_caught)

	other = Entity.new()
	host.add_child(other)
	other.setup(player, cam, _half, Entity.Kind.MIRROR)
	other.caught_you.connect(_on_caught)
	# it hangs — the feet never reach the carpet, which is the close-range tell
	other.position.y = 0.14

## Called when a level finishes building. `half` is the site's half-extent.
func enter(half: float) -> void:
	_half = half
	active = true
	loops = 0
	caught = 0
	_wrap_cd = 0.0
	entity._bounds = half
	entity.wake()
	other.sleep()
	dread = 0.0
	dying = false
	death_cause = Death.NONE
	gore.clear()
	tape.set_active(true)
	_scatter_totems()
	if _hud != null:
		_hud.toast("there is no exit. there is no one else here.")

func leave() -> void:
	active = false
	entity.sleep()
	other.sleep()
	tape.set_active(false)
	for t in _totems:
		if is_instance_valid(t):
			t.queue_free()
	_totems.clear()

## Every destroyed object and every puff of powder is a dinner bell.
func on_noise(at: Vector3, loudness: float) -> void:
	if active:
		entity.hear(at, loudness)          # the other one is deaf; it does not care

# ---------------------------------------------------------------- totems
## Hung in doorways you have definitely already walked through.
func _scatter_totems() -> void:
	for t in _totems:
		if is_instance_valid(t):
			t.queue_free()
	_totems.clear()
	if not ResourceLoader.exists(TOTEM):
		return
	var packed := load(TOTEM) as PackedScene
	for i in 7:
		var n: Node3D = packed.instantiate()
		_host.add_child(n)
		n.position = Vector3(randf_range(-_half + 3.0, _half - 3.0), 1.30,
			randf_range(-_half + 3.0, _half - 3.0))
		n.rotation.y = randf_range(0.0, TAU)
		_totems.append(n)

# ---------------------------------------------------------------- per-frame
func _process(dt: float) -> void:
	if not active or _player == null:
		return
	if dying:
		_tick_death(dt)
		return
	_wrap_cd = maxf(0.0, _wrap_cd - dt)
	_check_wrap()
	_tick_dread(dt)

	# how near it is while UNSEEN — the vignette breathing is the only tell you get
	var near := 0.0
	if entity.is_awake() and not entity.seen_now:
		var d := entity.global_position.distance_to(_player.global_position)
		near = clampf(1.0 - d / 16.0, 0.0, 1.0)
	if other.is_awake():
		# it makes no static and it doesn't breathe at you, so the ONLY warning the tape
		# gives for the other one is the edge closing in — even while you're staring at it
		var d2 := other.global_position.distance_to(_player.global_position)
		near = maxf(near, clampf(1.0 - d2 / 13.0, 0.0, 1.0) * 0.8)
	tape.drive(dt, entity.static_level, near)

	gore.set_blood(clampf((dread - 0.72) * 2.2, 0.0, 0.55))
	if dread > 0.72:
		gore.arm()

	# it whispers when it's close and behind you
	_next_whisper -= dt
	if near > 0.55 and _next_whisper <= 0.0:
		_next_whisper = randf_range(5.0, 11.0)
		if _hud != null:
			_hud.toast("something is breathing")
		if rage != null:
			rage.provoke(0.03, "something is breathing")

## Everything this place does to you lands in one number. Whichever source pushed it
## over the line decides how you die — that's what keeps three deaths readable instead of
## one generic fail.
func _tick_dread(dt: float) -> void:
	var src := Death.NONE
	var gain := 0.0

	if entity.seen_now:
		gain += DREAD_FROM_STARE * (0.4 + entity.static_level)
		src = Death.STARE
	var d := entity.global_position.distance_to(_player.global_position)
	if other.is_awake():
		d = minf(d, other.global_position.distance_to(_player.global_position))
	if d < 7.0:
		var g := DREAD_FROM_NEAR * (1.0 - d / 7.0)
		if g > gain:
			src = Death.REACH
		gain += g
	if dust != null and dust.inhaled > 0.6:
		gain += DREAD_FROM_LUNGS * dust.inhaled

	if gain <= 0.0:
		dread = maxf(0.0, dread - DREAD_CALM * dt)
		return
	# the longer you've been going round, the harder it grips
	dread = clampf(dread + gain * dt * (1.0 + loops * DREAD_LOOP_GRIP), 0.0, 1.0)
	if dread >= 1.0:
		_die(src if src != Death.NONE else Death.STARE)

# ---------------------------------------------------------------- dying
const EPITAPHS := {
	Death.STARE: ["YOU LOOKED TOO LONG",
		"it was still. it was always still. that was never the safe part."],
	Death.REACH: ["IT WAS ALREADY IN THE ROOM",
		"you were making so much noise."],
	Death.LOOP: ["YOU ARE STILL IN THE ROOM",
		"you walked it eleven times. you will walk it again."],
}

func _die(cause: int) -> void:
	if dying:
		return
	dying = true
	death_cause = cause
	dread = 1.0
	_death_t = 0.0
	gore.arm()
	entity.state = Entity.S.LUNGE
	if _cam != null:
		_death_from = _cam.transform
		# only the physical deaths spray. Being taken by the static shouldn't.
		if cause != Death.STARE:
			Gore.splatter(_host, _cam.global_position - _cam.global_transform.basis.z * 0.4,
				-_cam.global_transform.basis.z)
	if _player != null and _player.has_method("set_frozen"):
		_player.set_frozen(true)

## Slow on purpose. A jumpscare is a spike; a death should take its time, because the
## seconds spent watching the camera settle onto the carpet are where it lands.
func _tick_death(dt: float) -> void:
	_death_t += dt
	var t := _death_t

	# blood floods the glass over the first second and a half
	gore.set_blood(clampf(t / 1.5, 0.0, 1.0))

	if _cam != null:
		if t < 0.35:
			# the hit
			_cam.transform = _death_from
			_cam.rotation.x = _death_from.basis.get_euler().x + randf_range(-0.30, 0.30)
			_cam.rotation.z = randf_range(-0.35, 0.35)
		else:
			# and then you go down, and the camera lands on its side on the carpet
			var k := clampf((t - 0.35) / 2.4, 0.0, 1.0)
			k = k * k * (3.0 - 2.0 * k)
			_cam.position.y = lerpf(0.0, -1.35, k)
			_cam.rotation.z = lerpf(_cam.rotation.z, 1.35, clampf(dt * 2.0, 0.0, 1.0))
			_cam.rotation.x = lerpf(_cam.rotation.x, -0.55, clampf(dt * 2.0, 0.0, 1.0))

	if t > 2.6:
		gore.set_fade(clampf((t - 2.6) / 1.4, 0.0, 1.0))
	if t > 4.0 and not _card_shown:
		_card_shown = true
		var e: Array = EPITAPHS.get(death_cause, EPITAPHS[Death.STARE])
		gore.show_card(String(e[0]), String(e[1]))

var _card_shown := false

## Cross the boundary and you come out the far side — into a room that is identical,
## because every room here is identical. The entity repositions on the same frame.
func _check_wrap() -> void:
	if _wrap_cd > 0.0:
		return
	var p := _player.global_position
	var lim := _half - WRAP_MARGIN
	var wrapped := false
	if absf(p.x) > lim:
		p.x = -signf(p.x) * (lim - 1.2)
		wrapped = true
	if absf(p.z) > lim:
		p.z = -signf(p.z) * (lim - 1.2)
		wrapped = true
	if not wrapped:
		return
	_wrap_cd = WRAP_COOLDOWN
	loops += 1
	_player.global_position = p
	if _player is CharacterBody3D:
		(_player as CharacterBody3D).velocity = Vector3.ZERO
	tape.flash()
	# the good bit: it is somewhere new, and you have no idea where
	entity._reposition(9.0)
	if entity.state == Entity.S.STALKING and loops >= 2:
		entity.state = Entity.S.HUNTING       # it learns
	_disturb()
	dread = clampf(dread + DREAD_FROM_LOOP, 0.0, 1.0)
	if loops >= 11 or dread >= 1.0:
		_die(Death.LOOP)          # the room keeps you
		return
	if _hud != null:
		_hud.toast(WRAP_LINES[loops % WRAP_LINES.size()])
	if rage != null:
		rage.provoke(0.035, "the same room")

# ---------------------------------------------------------------- the disturbance
## EXACTLY ONE THING changes per loop. Never two.
##
## That constraint is the whole effect. Change nothing and the loop is just a teleport;
## change several things and it reads as a new room, which is the opposite of what this
## place is for. One change means you are never sure whether you noticed something or
## imagined it — and the room is otherwise pixel-identical, so when you DO notice, you
## are certain, and that's worse.
##
## It escalates: early loops move furniture, later ones start putting things where you
## were standing.
func _disturb() -> void:
	var props: Array = []
	for n in _host.get_tree().get_nodes_in_group("smashable"):
		if is_instance_valid(n) and n is Node3D:
			props.append(n)

	var options: Array = ["shift", "spin", "dark"]
	if loops >= 2:
		options.append("totem")
	if loops >= 3:
		options.append("reveal")
	if loops >= 5:
		options.append("behind")
	var pick: String = options[randi() % options.size()]

	match pick:
		"shift":
			# something is a metre from where it was. Only a metre.
			if props.is_empty():
				return
			var p: Node3D = props[randi() % props.size()]
			# small on purpose: a metre is enough to shove a neighbour and read as two
			# changes, and it's also too obvious. Half a metre is "…was that there?"
			p.global_position += Vector3(randf_range(-0.55, 0.55), 0.0,
				randf_range(-0.55, 0.55))
		"spin":
			if props.is_empty():
				return
			var q: Node3D = props[randi() % props.size()]
			q.rotation.y += randf_range(1.2, 2.6)
		"dark":
			# a bank of lights simply isn't on any more
			var lights: Array = []
			_collect_lights(_host, lights)
			if lights.is_empty():
				return
			lights.shuffle()
			for i in mini(4, lights.size()):
				(lights[i] as OmniLight3D).light_energy *= 0.25
		"totem":
			# one more of them than there was
			if not ResourceLoader.exists(TOTEM):
				return
			var packed := load(TOTEM) as PackedScene
			var n: Node3D = packed.instantiate()
			_host.add_child(n)
			var fwd := -_player.global_transform.basis.z
			fwd.y = 0.0
			n.position = _player.global_position + fwd.normalized() * randf_range(4.0, 8.0) \
				+ Vector3(0, 1.30, 0)
			n.rotation.y = randf_range(0.0, TAU)
			_totems.append(n)
		"reveal":
			# one object stops being invisible. Permanently. Nobody dusted it.
			if dust == null or props.is_empty():
				return
			var r: Node3D = props[randi() % props.size()]
			if r is Smashable:
				dust._coat(r as Smashable)
				(r as Smashable).set_meta("dust_until", 0x7FFFFFFF)
		"behind":
			# it is standing where you were a moment ago
			var back := _player.global_transform.basis.z
			back.y = 0.0
			entity.global_position = _player.global_position + back.normalized() * 3.2
			entity.state = Entity.S.HUNTING

	# and after enough of them, the other one is here too
	if loops >= OTHER_AFTER_LOOPS and not other.is_awake():
		other.wake()
		other.position.y = 0.14
		if _hud != null:
			_hud.toast("there are two of them.")

func _collect_lights(n: Node, acc: Array) -> void:
	if n is OmniLight3D:
		acc.append(n)
	for c in n.get_children():
		_collect_lights(c, acc)

func _on_caught() -> void:
	caught += 1
	tape.flash()
	if _cam != null:
		_cam.rotation.x += randf_range(-0.22, 0.22)
		_cam.rotation.z += randf_range(-0.2, 0.2)
	# it doesn't kill you. It costs you: a lungful, a spike of rage, and the certainty
	# that it can do that whenever it likes.
	if dust != null:
		dust.inhaled = clampf(dust.inhaled + 0.30, 0.0, 1.0)
	if rage != null:
		rage.provoke(0.16, "IT TOUCHED YOU")
	dread = clampf(dread + 0.34, 0.0, 1.0)
	if dread >= 1.0:
		_die(Death.REACH)
		return
	if _hud != null:
		_hud.toast("IT TOUCHED YOU")

## R after a death. Rebuild is Main's job; this just clears the horror state.
func revive() -> void:
	dying = false
	_card_shown = false
	death_cause = Death.NONE
	dread = 0.0
	loops = 0
	caught = 0
	gore.clear()
	if _cam != null:
		_cam.position = Vector3.ZERO
		_cam.rotation = Vector3.ZERO
	if _player != null and _player.has_method("set_frozen"):
		_player.set_frozen(false)
	entity.wake()

func hud_line() -> String:
	if not active:
		return ""
	if dying:
		return ""
	var st := int(round(entity.static_level * 100.0))
	var warn := ""
	if entity.state == Entity.S.HUNTING:
		warn = "   ·   it is looking for you"
	elif entity.state == Entity.S.LUNGE:
		warn = "   ·   RUN"
	var twos := "   ·   TWO" if other.is_awake() else ""
	var label := "steady"
	if dread > 0.85:
		label = "YOU ARE GOING TO DIE HERE"
	elif dread > 0.62:
		label = "get out get out get out"
	elif dread > 0.34:
		label = "you are not alone"
	return "loops %d%s   ·   touched %d   ·   signal %d%%   ·   DREAD %d%% (%s)%s" % [
		loops, twos, caught, st, int(round(dread * 100.0)), label, warn]