Monster Robot Party
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NO HEALTH BAR. Nothing else in this game does damage, so hit points would be a
survival-horror UI bolted onto a demolition game. Instead: one meter, DREAD, fed by
every way this place gets at you — being stared at, something close behind you, each
loop, and your own coughing. It decays when nothing is happening to you, and every loop
makes it grip harder (DREAD_LOOP_GRIP), so the place gets better at this the longer you
stay.
At 100% you die, and WHICH source pushed it over decides the death, which is what keeps
the three memes legible at the one moment it matters:
STARE "YOU LOOKED TOO LONG / it was still. it was always still. that was never the
safe part." (Slenderman)
REACH "IT WAS ALREADY IN THE ROOM / you were making so much noise."
Sprays. This is the gory one. (the xenomorph)
LOOP "YOU ARE STILL IN THE ROOM / you walked it eleven times. you will walk it
again." Eleven loops and the room simply keeps you. (Blair Witch)
Gore.gd is procedural — seeded blobs that swell on the lens and then bleed downward in
streaks, a wet burst at the camera (physical deaths only; being taken by the static
shouldn't spray), the camera going down to land on its side on the carpet, then the
card. The sequence is deliberately SLOW: a jumpscare is a spike, but a death should take
its time, because the seconds spent watching the lens settle are where it lands. R wakes
you up.
Player.set_frozen() so you can't stroll around during your own death.
Renamed Backrooms' VHS layer to `tape` — `dread` is the meter now, and it was clearer
anyway.
dev/probe_death.gd drives all three deaths and the revive.
Note: the "Parameter material is null" warning only appears under the headless dummy
renderer; windowed runs are clean.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
71 lines
1.9 KiB
GDScript
71 lines
1.9 KiB
GDScript
extends SceneTree
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## All three deaths, and that you can get up again.
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## Godot --headless --path game --script dev/probe_death.gd
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func _initialize() -> void:
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var main: Node = (load("res://main.tscn") as PackedScene).instantiate()
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get_root().add_child(main)
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await process_frame
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main._load_level("backrooms")
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for i in 8:
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await physics_frame
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var br = main.get("_backrooms")
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var player = main.get("_player")
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# --- 1. STARE: park it in view and don't look away ---
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print("--- stare ---")
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player.global_position = Vector3.ZERO
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player.rotation.y = 0.0
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var placed := false
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for d in [3.0, 4.0, 5.0, 6.0, 8.0]:
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br.entity.global_position = Vector3(0, 0, -d)
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await physics_frame
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await physics_frame
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if br.entity.seen_now:
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placed = true
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break
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print(" sightline: ", placed)
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var ticks := 0
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while not br.dying and ticks < 900:
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br.entity.global_position = Vector3(0, 0, -4) # hold it there
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await physics_frame
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ticks += 1
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print(" dying=%s cause=%s after %.1fs dread=%.2f" % [
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br.dying, br.death_cause, ticks / 60.0, br.dread])
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print(" player frozen: ", player._frozen)
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# let the sequence run
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for i in 300:
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await physics_frame
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print(" card shown: ", br._card_shown)
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# --- get up ---
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br.revive()
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main._reset()
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for i in 8:
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await physics_frame
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print(" after revive: dying=%s dread=%.2f frozen=%s" % [
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br.dying, br.dread, player._frozen])
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# --- 2. REACH: a touch while already terrified ---
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print("--- reach ---")
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br.dread = 0.80
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br.entity._cd = 0.0
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br.entity._catch()
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await process_frame
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print(" dying=%s cause=%s" % [br.dying, br.death_cause])
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br.revive()
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main._reset()
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for i in 6:
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await physics_frame
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# --- 3. LOOP: walk the same room until it keeps you ---
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print("--- loop ---")
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br.loops = 10
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br.dread = 0.0
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player.global_position = Vector3(0, 0, 18.6)
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for i in 8:
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await physics_frame
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print(" loops=%d dying=%s cause=%s" % [br.loops, br.dying, br.death_cause])
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quit()
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