# GigaSlop: Compute Tycoon

Factorio meets Software Inc., wrapped in a satirical sim of the AI slop economy.
Start with a budget PC in your bedroom generating $0.40/day of AI spam videos;
end up draining the county grid to feed slop-generation clusters.

**Stack:** TypeScript + Vite + PixiJS v8. The simulation (`src/sim/`) is a
deterministic fixed-tick (10 Hz) module with zero renderer dependencies — the
Pixi layer (`src/render/`) and DOM HUD (`src/ui/`) just read state.

## Run

```bash
npm install
npm run dev   # http://localhost:5173
```

## Play (Tier 1 slice)

- You start with a PC, desk, and router. Press **W**, click the PC, then the
  router to wire them — slop production starts.
- Watch the **breaker** (1400 W bedroom circuit): trip it and your training
  checkpoint corrupts.
- Heat is spatial. Hot PCs throttle at 85°C; fans spread heat around, the
  window AC deletes it.
- Uplink caps monetizable tokens — saturated cables mean dropped slop.
- The **TRAIN/INFER** slider trades cash now (inference → videos → ad revenue)
  for model tiers later (higher revenue multipliers).

## Art pipeline

All art is generated on the local MODELBEAST farm (`tools/mb_gen.py`):
FLUX for the room shell + hardware sprites (bg-removed, autocropped), and the
in-game slop thumbnails are genuine SD/FLUX slop — the game about AI slop is
made of actual AI slop. Titles baked to `src/data/sloptitles.json`.

## Layout

```
src/sim/      balance.ts (all tunables) · catalog.ts (hardware defs)
              state.ts · sim.ts (step, place/wire/sell commands)
src/render/   iso.ts (grid↔screen mapping) · scene.ts (Pixi world)
src/ui/       hud.ts + hud.css (DOM dashboards, shop, SlopTube feed)
tools/        mb_gen.py (MODELBEAST batch art generation)
```