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type-two 9bd42dccc5 [lane D] The last two pathogens: the seeker and the turret get meshes
Completes the set. These two matter most of the five because they are the most COMMON enemies in
the game — the seeker is pepsin, eosinophil and neutrophil across four levels, and the turret is
every candida bloom and Peyer's patch.

  seeker -> amoeboid immune cell, rounded body with blunt pseudopod lobes. 3194 tris, replaces a
            6-sided cone.
  turret -> candida plaque colony, a lumpy dome of fused budding yeast. 3894 tris, replaces a
            7-sided cylinder.

Both took two MODELBEAST runs: the farm 401'd then 429'd the guest token twice under load, which
is a rate limit rather than a content failure, and the script being resumable meant the retry
only paid for what was missing.

A judgement call worth recording: the seeker's bbox aspect is 1.16, near-round, which for the
phage was the signature of a FAILED reconstruction. Here it is correct — an amoeboid cell is
round, and the detail is in the lobes rather than the silhouette. The cost is that a charging
seeker no longer has the cone's "pointy end = coming at you" read. The fiction wins: pepsin and
eosinophils are cells, not missiles, and the thing is 1 unit across at 19 u/s, so its threat is
read from motion and colour long before shape.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-26 19:39:19 +10:00
.claude [chore] Drop the throwaway preview ports 2026-07-25 22:52:08 +10:00
docs [lane B+C+F] The Appendix Sovereign: the secret boss, and a reputation you cannot fake 2026-07-25 23:25:36 +10:00
pipeline [lane A] MODELBEAST dresses the molecules: 5 matcaps, and the canal picks space-filling 2026-07-16 21:31:24 +10:00
tools [infra] Stamp the deploy: curl /gutsy/VERSION to see what is actually live 2026-07-17 23:04:05 +10:00
web [lane D] The last two pathogens: the seeker and the turret get meshes 2026-07-26 19:39:19 +10:00
.gitignore [lane A] The swept room + the acid sea, built — and it corrected me four times 2026-07-16 18:04:16 +10:00
README.md [infra] GUTS is live at partly.party/gutsy — deploy wired, ship-check clean 2026-07-17 23:02:04 +10:00

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.

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)

  1. Determinism. No Math.random outside js/core/rng.js. Seeded RNG only. qa.sh greps.
  2. Assets are optional. Missing texture/model/audio ⇒ procedural fallback, never a crash.
  3. Eyeball everything. Visual work isn't done until a screenshot is in docs/shots/laneX/.
  4. Perf budget: ≤300 draw calls, 60 fps on M-series / mid laptop. Measure via window.DBG.
  5. Free-first. Local MODELBEAST generation before any paid API; fal.ai is a gated fallback (John's go). See PIPELINE.md.
  6. 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-recreate or nginx image bump wipes it — re-run the script. The durable fix is a bind mount in forum/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.html serves 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.