30 FLUX images via MODELBEAST (queue3 + text rerolls), all local/free:
class portraits x4, player variants x3, Tier-3 villains x7 (spectral conductor,
78rpm, gatekeeper, shazam zombie, scalper, warped record, fire marshal),
warehouse + festival tilesets, props, attract cards, wide key-art banner,
VINYL GAUNTLET marquee logo, and the super-rare 4-player cabinet hero shot.
klein-4b garbles text ~2/3 of the time: rerolled with 'reads exactly' prompts
(logo nailed it 3/3), composited the good marquee onto the cabinet with PIL and
pixel-verified the garbled kickplate patch. Finals in assets/promo/ (committed);
raw gen stays in assets/generated/ (gitignored, reproducible from queue JSONs).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Digging: hold E (or DIG touch button) by a crate wall, 2s rooted channel, once
per tile. Loot: 70% +200 vibe, 25% gold record, 4% grail (full vibe), 1%
bootleg (every bin on the level erupts).
- Treasure rooms: every 3rd level, 20s bonus room strewn with gold, no enemies,
booth exits instantly, "CLOSING TIME" when the timer dies.
- THE ARCHIVE (4th theme): FLUX-generated dark tileset, real darkness via
RenderTexture with radial glow holes at player + lamps, dust mites spawn in
packs of 3, Mite Queen miniboss (12 HP, broods mites every 5s, airhorn-immune,
drops 3 gold + 1000 pts). Archive tune pool: 195 dnb/hardcore/breakbeat/
electro 12"s (718 total tunes now).
- Infinite: levels past the 4 authored maps are deterministic seeded mazes
(recursive backtracker + loops + rooms), difficulty scales with depth.
All verified in-browser via engine stepping.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
assets/extract_tunes.py pulls 523 canon tunes (repress-count ranked, club pool
12"-only) into public/tunes.json across shop/fair/club genre pools; top ~8% of
each chunk flagged grail ("CERTIFIED CLASSIC", gold flash, 2000 pts). Level
clear reveals a real record (artist — title, label, year), the announcer speaks
it, and first IDs land in a persistent localStorage notebook (+1000). Title
screen shows notebook progress. Also: overlay/sub text got backgrounds for
readability, and prompt() is guarded for webviews that lack it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Vite base=/vinylgauntlet/ and Phaser assets load from BASE_URL so they resolve
under the subpath. deploy.sh builds and ships dist/ into the forum-nginx
container (humanjing@100.71.119.27), same pattern as the other partly.party
games. Verified live: 200, game HTML + sprites serving, renders in-browser.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Regenerate textures at 48px (chars/walls), 96px floor, with an UnsharpMask to
counter the LANCZOS softening. Bump TILE to 48 so the whole world scales up and
sprites render bigger/crisper; scale movement + range constants x1.5 to keep the
same tiles-per-second feel, and collision bodies to 34px. Mechanics reverified.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
