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A Sierra-style adventure in the Police Squad!/Naked Gun universe, on MRPGI — which reimplements AGI, the engine Sierra shipped Police Quest on. The premise: Police Quest's pedantic procedure x Police Squad!'s farce. The game grades you on correct procedure with a straight face, and the reward for perfect procedure is catastrophe anyway. Per John, the famous Police Quest II bugs are shipped deliberately as canon gags. - RESEARCH.md — all six Police Squad! episodes, all four films (incl. Neeson's Frank Drebin Jr, 2025), the recurring cast, and the ZAZ comedy grammar. - DESIGN.md — the joke engine, the two Drebins across three eras (Drebin Sr's 1982 cases render in a monochrome EGA subset for the 1950s M Squad look), an eleven-case campaign, and the PQ2 glitch-to-feature table. - cases/case-01-substantial-gift — playable. Five rooms, 100 points, full win path verified headlessly at 95/100 plus four authored Sierra deaths. Procedure gates, dusting for latents, and Miranda rights in the correct order are all pure JSON; no engine features were invented for it. - tools/sprites.py — all 24 sprites generated locally on MODELBEAST (flux_local -> bg_remove_local -> trim/downscale), reproducible by seed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# Police Squad Quest
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A Sierra-style adventure game set in the *Police Squad!* / *Naked Gun* universe,
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built on the [MRPGI](https://github.com/) engine (`~/Documents/MRPGI`) — which is
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itself a reimplementation of AGI, the engine Sierra shipped *Police Quest* on.
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> The game grades you on correct police procedure with a completely straight
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> face. The reward for perfect procedure is catastrophe anyway.
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- **[RESEARCH.md](RESEARCH.md)** — the source material: all six *Police Squad!*
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episodes, all four films, the recurring cast, and the ZAZ comedy grammar.
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- **[DESIGN.md](DESIGN.md)** — the game bible: the joke engine, the two Drebins,
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the eleven-case campaign, and how it all maps onto MRPGI data.
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## Play
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```bash
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./play.sh
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```
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Or directly:
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```bash
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cargo run -p mrpgi --manifest-path ~/Documents/MRPGI/Cargo.toml -- --game cases/case-01-substantial-gift
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```
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`Tab` switches between play and the room editor. Type `help` in play.
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## What's here
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| `cases/case-01-substantial-gift/` | **Case One — playable, 100 points.** Five rooms, full win path, four Sierra deaths. |
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| `tools/sprites.py` | Generates every sprite on the MODELBEAST farm (free, local). |
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| `RESEARCH.md` / `DESIGN.md` | Source research and the campaign bible. |
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## Case One — A Substantial Gift
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*Police Squad!* episode 1. A credit union manager is dead, the wrong man is in a
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cell, and the teller has new braces.
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Sign out your badge and sidearm (the door will not let you leave without them),
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get briefed, tip Johnny, dust the counter, match the print, find the bill, and
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Mirandize the suspect **in the correct order**. Get the order wrong and the
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statement is suppressed, which is a Sierra death card, which is the joke.
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## Regenerating art
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Sprites are generated locally on MODELBEAST (`flux_local` → `bg_remove_local` →
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downscale). Prompts live in each case's `sprites.json`.
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```bash
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python3 tools/sprites.py cases/case-01-substantial-gift # fill gaps
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python3 tools/sprites.py cases/case-01-substantial-gift --force # redo all
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MB_POOL=1 python3 tools/sprites.py cases/... # if the farm 401s
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```
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Seeds derive from the sprite name, so reruns reproduce the same art.
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## Engine changes
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Two small, general-purpose additions were made upstream in MRPGI for this
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project — both benefit any game:
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- `sprites/ego.png` in a game folder replaces the default party robot as the
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player avatar (`ego1.png` optional second walk cel).
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- `death_text` in `game.json` overrides the death banner, which was previously
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hardcoded to another game's flavour text.
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