Monster Robot Party
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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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DESTROYULATOR
Clock out. Smash everything.
A comedic, non-violent, first-person workplace-destruction game from Monster Robot Party. Nobody gets hurt but the furniture.
The game is CUBICLE HELL. You work a shift doing deliberately infuriating office tasks. A rage meter fills. When it fills you snap, and you physically cannot go back to your desk until you've broken enough things. Then you sit back down and try to earn the rest of your day. Your score is your payslip: wages earned minus damages caused — so during a meltdown you want to wreck a lot of cheap rubbish rather than one expensive filing cabinet. Falling Down, scored by payroll.
Four sites (Scranton branch, Pawnee city hall, a hacker house, a windowless IT
basement) and four modes (Cubicle Hell, the Gauntlet, Total Destruction, Against the
Clock). Sites are data, not code — see game/scripts/Levels.gd.
Design, built and planned, lives in LANES/LANE7-cubicle-hell.md.
Monorepo layout — one lane per directory
| Dir | Lane | What |
|---|---|---|
game/ |
Lane 1 — the game | Godot 4.7 (Jolt physics, Mac-native). The shippable build. |
web/ |
Lane 3 — web toy | Three.js dig-and-destroy demo (planned; thriftgod-adjacent). |
tools/ |
asset build | Blender generators for the viewmodel + office props. Re-runnable. |
LANES/ |
coordination | Execution specs for parallel Claude/Opus work sessions. |
3D-STORE/ |
not in git | 700MB Blender/Unreal source-asset vault (see .gitignore). |
destroyulater.txt |
lore | The founding chat where the idea happened. |
Asset generation lives in its own repo: ~/Documents/meshgod (text→GLB factory). The
first-person arms are cut from ~/Documents/character_kit_modular (the GODVERSE modular
character kit) by tools/gen_fps_arms.py.
Rules for parallel work sessions
- A lane session writes ONLY inside its own directory. Cross-lane contracts
(asset formats, file drops) are specified in
LANES/*.md. - Every change to
game/must pass the headless smoke test before commit:Godot --headless --path game --quit-after 180with zero script errors. - GLB convention everywhere: glTF Y-up, 1 unit = 1 m, origin at floor-center.