GUTS has had three bosses designed and none implemented. This is the first, and the framework
the other two should reuse. Built to LANE_C_NOTES §Boss specs, phase table and all.
WHY IT IS SMALL. A boss here is not a parallel entity system, it is a SCHEDULE over the enemy
pool. The nodes and vents are ordinary enemies, so weapons hit them, the InstancedMesh draws
them and enemy:die reports them for free; the fight's identity lives entirely in WHEN they can
be hurt, which is two flags (`invuln`, `armor`) honoured by enemies.hurt(). boss.js is a state
machine and nothing else.
Faithful to C's table:
P1 4 rim nodes, iris opens 2.5s every 8s
P2 4 nodes, opens 1.8s every 5s, TWO armoured — and only the antacid torpedo strips them
P3 the core alone, 60hp = C's "x5 hits", plus the 25s doom timer that kills you if you stall
Telegraphs are C's too: a "deep gulp" 2s before each window (boss:telegraph + audio), and nodes
go amber -> white-hot exactly when they become shootable — one uniform driven off `invuln`, so
the thing that glows IS the thing you can hurt, always.
Vents are turrets at fixed arcs: a turret already fires a telegraphed homing projectile on a
cooldown, which is what an acid vent is.
hp is B's call (C: "numbers need B's framework to tune against"). 150 per rim node means a ring
outlives its first window, so you must come back for it — which is what lets the stomach's
coat-drain be the real clock. C's pillar, verified: parked in the lair for 20s without fighting
back, coat goes 100 -> 0. "A race against your coat, not its hp."
Verified end-to-end: a paced pilot (11 shots/s, ~70% uptime) wins in 38.8s across 9 windows at
0.38 open-duty (spec: 31-36%); phases report 4/0 armoured, 4/2 armoured, 1 core; damage is
refused while the iris is shut; the two armoured nodes consumed exactly 2 torpedo strips.
Not included: C's arena churn (a force on the player, the one part of the spec that is a feel
change rather than a schedule) — noted for the round that tunes it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The deeper payoff of the flora loop. A new `biofilm` level event: cross one and combat checks
BIOME STANDING — high enough (>= need), the native flora PART the biofilm, budding a wave of phage
allies + refilling coat, then spending the goodwill; too low, it stays sealed and you run the
gauntlet raw. Emits `biofilm {opened}` so E can voice both.
- combat/index.js: biofilmGate(ev) on the level:event pump (fields need/allies/coat).
- levels/index.js: the selfcheck knows the `biofilm` type now (validates need 0..100).
- L2: one demoed at s2500 — the opening flora/akkermansia/beacon let you BANK standing, and the
gate cashes it into a phage escort right before the hiatus + reflux finale.
The mechanism is complete; L5 also gets the fast-route/Appendix branch when that level + world
support land. Verified in-engine: high standing -> opened, 3 phages, coat 50->90; low -> sealed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The cleverest node in the reputation loop — a commensal that eats your mucus. Brushing it
COSTS coat but fills BIOME STANDING fast (gain 12 vs flora's 5): the "spend coat for a quicker
phage ally" trade against flora's safe heal-and-slow.
- enemies.js: flora's branch generalised to a shared COMMENSAL branch, sign-flipped by data
(cfg.coat gifts, cfg.coatCost nibbles); flora:tended now carries `gain`. New `mucus_grazer`
archetype — cyan (still flora, readability law), but a dodecahedron amoeba-blob so the coat
cost reads as a different bug, not a betrayal by the healing rod.
- combat/index.js: standing gain comes from the event's `gain`.
- levels: ARCHETYPES += mucus_grazer; catalogue `akkermansia`; L2 teaches it at s210, right
after the flora reef so the same-colour / opposite-trade contrast lands.
Verified: brushing it dropped coat 100->88 while standing hit 36% in 3 tends (4x flora's rate);
distinct blob vs the flora capsule.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A teal BIOME STANDING bar joins coat/hull in the HUD (matches the thin-cyan line-work; scale-
only per the 60fps law). Hidden until the first `standing` event, so a flora-less level never
shows a bar you can't fill. Brightens near full to telegraph an incoming phage ally.
combat/index.js: rescaled standing to a clean 0..100 (tend +5, harm -35) — a FULL bar buds an
ally and drops to a 50 recharge floor, so the meter reads as "charge it to summon help." First-
pass numbers; tune to taste.
Verified in-engine: tending flora reveals the bar and fills it proportionally (0.20 -> 0.45),
teal, below coat/hull.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The first ALLY, and the reputation loop that earns it — "don't shoot the biome, it helps you"
(V2_IDEAS) made mechanical.
- combat/enemies.js + balance.js: the `phage` archetype. A friendly seeker that hunts the
nearest FOE (not the player) and rams it — a bacteriophage bursts its host after `bursts`
hits. Fast (26 > every foe) so it catches things, fragile (hp 8) so it is spent, not a wall.
Entities now carry a `foe` flag (foes true; flora + phage false); kill() generalised so ANY
ally scores nothing and never combos. Fallback silhouette is a bare icosahedron = the phage's
real icosahedral capsid. Teal (EMISSIVE.ally), distinct from cyan "don't shoot" flora.
- combat/index.js: BIOME STANDING — one run-scoped float. flora:tended raises it, flora:harmed
drops it 25; at the symbiotic threshold the biome BUDS a phage near you (capped 3, 3s cooldown),
spending standing. Emits `standing {value}` for a future Lane E meter.
- levels/enemies.js: ARCHETYPES += phage; catalogue `phage`.
Verified deterministically in-engine: tending flora budded a phage, which hunted a spore_pod foe
(30hp) and rammed it dead; three-colour readability holds (amber foe / teal ally / cyan friend).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
All round-2 lane sessions were cut off 15:08-15:16 before NOTES/commits; the three prior
commits preserve their work verbatim. This commit is the wiring B was cut off inside of,
plus the run-state boot owes per ruling #4:
- combat/index.js: fiction-id -> archetype resolve via C's getEnemy() (the round's declared
ONE blocker), theta-array + spread fan-out for group spawns, hazards + pickups constructed
and updated (order: enemies -> weapons -> hazards -> pickups, so a torpedo can neutralize
a surge the frame it detonates), pickup score/samples onto the combat:state scoreboard,
combat.reset(fromS) for respawn.
- flight/player.js: kill/shove/refill — the API B's new modules call; kill ignores iframes
by design (boost-dodging through C's lethal acid wall is not a read). Deleted the
crestSpeed fallback guard per its own comment — A's law landed.
- boot.js: run state. checkpoint crossed -> remembered; death -> 2s -> respawn at it +
combat.reset() re-arms hazard timelines (pump deliberately does NOT rewind: no
double-spawns, collected stays collected); gate -> level:complete {stats, par} for E's
medal card. Exported step(dt) so the stepped-sim harness drives the REAL loop.
- ROUND2_INSTRUCTIONS: MID-ROUND STATUS box for the resuming lanes; f-progress entry.
Verified (deterministic stepped sim via boot.step, :8140): full L2 run fires all 47 events
with ZERO console warns (was: 11 spawn no-ops), all 5 hazard telegraphs, 2400 proximity
ticks, 14 pickups collected, finish 157s vs par 180 while surfing 94s of it. Death path:
throttle 0.7 into the finale -> killed by acid s=3386 -> respawn at Cardia Approach 2980 ->
surge re-arms -> second attempt escapes -> level:complete {deaths: 1}. Survivable AND
losable. Evidence: docs/shots/laneF/round2_L2_integrated_full_run.png. qa.sh GREEN.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Flight (js/flight/): tube-mode controller in spline space (s,x,y) — flow-locked
forward motion, throttle as a spring-back lean, boost + i-frames, banking chase
cam on the parallel-transport frame, arcade wall response (shove + graze damage,
never a hard stop). Twin-stick input: WASD/left-stick moves the ship in the disc,
mouse/right-stick aims, Shift/Ctrl is throttle. Gamepad supported.
Combat (js/combat/): lysozyme cannon (pooled, instanced, heat-limited with
hysteresis lockout) + antacid torpedo emitting level:neutralize. Enemy framework
with floater/seeker/turret and turn-rate-limited homing darts, spawned from C's
level:event. Coat/hull model and the full bus surface E builds against.
Measured (deterministic stepper): flow-lock exact (3s at flow 14 -> s=44.0);
boost peak 30.8 u/s; heat 4s fire -> 2s lockout; wall slam 13.3 coat at 11.3 u/s
with forward speed untouched; 10 combat draws at 55 live enemies (budget <=80);
0.10 ms/frame CPU; 0 leaks over 20 create/dispose cycles. fps NOT claimed — rAF
does not run in the automated pane. Evidence: docs/shots/laneB/.
Three findings escalated in LANE_B_NOTES:
- qa.sh gate #1 is a no-op: node --check silently exits 0 on ESM, so the syntax
gate has never checked anything. I shipped a real SyntaxError past a GREEN qa.
Fix + verification handed to F.
- Surf is structurally broken: the peristalsis wave (13.64 u/s) is slower than
the player (19.6 u/s), so level 2's signature mechanic loses to mashing
throttle. Not tunable from this lane; escalated to A/F with options.
- Custom ShaderMaterials need #include <colorspace_fragment>, else ART_BIBLE's
hostile amber reaches the display as rgb(255,26,6). Fixed here; stub/walls
inherit it.
js/flight/dev.html is a dev harness (boot.js has no player wiring yet); it
retires once F pastes the snippet in LANE_B_NOTES.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
