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The first new level since L2, and the campaign's endurance beat. 7 segments, 6000 units,
63 events, ~10 minutes. Authored entirely from systems that already exist — no new engine work.
The three acts are anatomy, not invention: duodenal bulb -> descending duodenum (the ampulla,
where bile enters) -> jejunum -> deep jejunum -> ileum -> terminal ileum -> ileocecal valve.
Giardia really colonises the duodenum/jejunum and Peyer's patches really concentrate in the
ileum, so the difficulty curve IS the gut's own immune gradient: you fly from the quiet
absorptive end into the lymphoid end and the walls get angrier.
Identity vs L2: flow 8-10 against L2's 12-20, curviness up to 0.70, fog 0.050. L2 punishes bad
reflexes; L4 punishes bad reading. Segmentation ring gates (the small bowel's real motility)
teach at 70% open and test at 43% in an 8-unit lumen.
Three catalogue rows carry the new fiction onto existing archetypes — chyme_clump (floater),
neutrophil_hunter (seeker), bifido_colony (flora). The ileocecal biofilm gate at s5500 is the
first time the reputation loop pays out at a level's END rather than mid-level.
C's own tooling verifies it: selfcheck 4/4 valid, and --sim reports par 600s vs par-pace 576s
("par is reachable at par-pace throttle"), a pressure curve of 1.00/1.43/1.90/2.46/1.65/2.69/
1.63, min clearance 3.62 vs the 2.5 law, all 22 checkpoint gaps <= 29.3s. Driven end-to-end
in-engine: all six entity types spawn, biofilm fires at 5500, valve gate completes to L5.
The GDD's Tapeworm miniboss is not here — no boss framework exists yet. It goes in at ~5500
when that lands; the level notes say so.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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GUTS — a fantastic voyage through the alimentary canal
Browser flight-combat game (three.js, zero build step). You pilot ENDO-1, a microscopic probe, mouth → rectum through five anatomically-grounded biomes: ride peristalsis down the esophagus, cross the acid sea of the stomach, thread the villi forest of the small intestine, survive the gas swamps of the colon. Fantastic Voyage × Star Fox × Descent.
- Design: docs/GDD.md · Look: docs/ART_BIBLE.md
- Architecture + contracts: docs/TECH.md
- Asset generation: docs/PIPELINE.md
- How we work (lanes/rounds): docs/PROCESS.md — read this first if you are a lane
- Current round: docs/LANES/ROUND1_INSTRUCTIONS.md
Run it
cd web && python3 -m http.server 8140
# http://localhost:8140 — the game
# http://localhost:8140/?stub=1&dbg=1 — stub world + debug HUD (works from day 0)
No bundler, no npm, no build. ES modules + import map; three.js r175 vendored in web/vendor/
(never CDN — the game must run offline). Before you finish a session: bash tools/qa.sh.
The one-paragraph tech pitch
The whole canal is a spline. World position is (s, θ, ρ) — distance along the canal,
angle and radius in the cross-section. Tube walls are chunked extrusions along
parallel-transport frames; peristalsis and breathing are vertex-shader displacement
(cheap, squishy, everywhere); collision is an analytic radius test (no physics engine).
Caverns (mouth, stomach) switch the same controller to free 6DOF. Look is synthetic
scanner — dark endoscope void, SEM-style monochrome walls with FLUX-generated detail
textures, emissive-coded enemies. Everything is seeded + deterministic, and every asset is
optional at runtime — the game boots and plays asset-free with procedural fallbacks.
Hard laws (all lanes)
- Determinism. No
Math.randomoutsidejs/core/rng.js. Seeded RNG only. qa.sh greps. - Assets are optional. Missing texture/model/audio ⇒ procedural fallback, never a crash.
- Eyeball everything. Visual work isn't done until a screenshot is in
docs/shots/laneX/. - Perf budget: ≤300 draw calls, 60 fps on M-series / mid laptop. Measure via
window.DBG. - Free-first. Local MODELBEAST generation before any paid API; fal.ai is a gated fallback (John's go). See PIPELINE.md.
- Git: stage only your exact paths, commit + push each session, never
git add ..
Deploy
Live: https://partly.party/gutsy/ — bash tools/deploy.sh (QA gate → rsync web/ minus
dev/ → docker cp into forum-nginx → verify). No build step; web/ ships as-is.
Two things to know before you touch it, both documented at length in the script header:
- It's ephemeral. Content lives in the container's own layer (like blobbo/glytch), so a
docker compose up --force-recreateor nginx image bump wipes it — re-run the script. The durable fix is a bind mount inforum/docker-compose.yml(what cratewars/roguelike use), which costs a forum-nginx recreate and brief partly.party downtime. - A 404 there returns HTTP 200. nginx's catch-all
try_files ... /index.htmlserves the arcade index for any missing file. Verify on content, never on status codes.
Origin: ssh://git@100.71.119.27:222/monster/guts.git.