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PROTOTYPE + proposal, not wired into boot. Pickups are B's systems, their economy is C's, object art is D's — this is a renderer and an argument, offered to all three. Bench: web/dev/laneA_molecules.html · docs/MOLECULES.md THE PITCH: the pickups already in L2 ARE molecules. C authored `nutrient`, `mucin`, `B12` and `antacid ammo` before any of this existed — those are the real biochemistry of a digestive tract, and glucose/cobalamin/bicarbonate are real compounds with known shapes. We don't need to invent a pickup language; we need to stop hiding the one the fiction handed us. GUTS is already a science game (an eosinophil is a real white blood cell, candida a real yeast, the hiatus a real choke point) — it just doesn't LOOK like one, because everything on screen is tinted tissue. THE RULE THAT MAKES IT WORK: CPK is the scanner. Everything identified is drawn in the standard element palette (O red, N blue, P orange, metals pink); everything else stays monochrome tissue. Against six biomes of tinted wall a CPK molecule is the ONLY saturated foreign colour on screen — it reads as artificial, valuable and targetable with NO HUD marker. Proof: round2_molecules_in_canal.png. That's the ART_BIBLE's synthetic-scanner fiction paying rent, and it hands Lane E a free HUD palette. WHY PROCEDURAL AND NOT MODELBEAST — and I'm authorised to burn the GPU: a molecule's shape is already known exactly. Glucose is a hexagonal ring because it IS one. FLUX+TRELLIS gives a plausible blob in 3-8 min that a chemist clocks as wrong and that can never be re-derived. Ball-and-stick from an atom list is exact, rebuilds in ms, and is ONE DRAW CALL per molecule (measured: 7 molecules = 7 draws / 26.5k tris). The split is a principle: small molecules = procedural (exact geometry known); proteins/enzymes = MODELBEAST blobs (real ones are 3000-atom blobs nobody reads — and PIPELINE says blobby organics are TRELLIS's sweet spot); cells/creatures = MODELBEAST, D's lane, unaffected. BUILT: water (chaff) · bicarbonate (antacid ammo — HCO3- + HCl is the real neutralisation, it genuinely fizzes CO2) · glucose (nutrient/score) · caffeine (overdrive — really gut-absorbed, needs no tutorial) · ATP (boost — the orange triphosphate tail IS the charge, a pickup that's a diagram of its own mechanic) · capsaicin (burn hazard — long greasy tail reads wrong on sight) · B12 (rare treasure — a cobalt in a corrin cage, the only metal vitamin; C authored it as a pickup already). Size is a free rarity signal: `unit` mode keeps TRUE relative sizes, so water is a speck and B12 a chandelier. Found by rendering it, which is why the bench exists: fuseRing returns vertices starting adjacent to B, and bonding them from A instead draws a chord across the ring — still a valid 5-cycle so nothing errors, it just looked like a squashed pentagon. Fixed in caffeine + ATP's adenine, adjacency documented. Stated plainly: geometry is idealised (correct connectivity/rings/bond orders, believable angles, authored flat) NOT crystallographic — real glucose is a chair, not a hexagon. The B12 is a simplified corrin core. Untested above ~7 on screen; fifty would want instancing. qa GREEN. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <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
Target: partly.party (static). Not wired yet — when it's time, consult the deploy-map skill
and run ship-check first. Origin: ssh://git@100.71.119.27:222/monster/guts.git.