Nails down the premium unlock system per the design pass:
- FREE `original` topdown pack (NEW): the game's bare tiles — floor/wall/door/
torch/features only, no furniture, so the free tavern reads plain (the intended
"reason to unlock"). Registered in assetPacks (RK.THEMES.original) as the free
default topdown pack; plain ASCII stays free (accessibility).
- Loyalty ladder (lifetime credits PURCHASED, cumulative, NOT deducted → buying to
play also unlocks cosmetics): Interior 1, skins 5, iso 10, +tilepack 20, +iso 40,
3D 50. Each row is data (tilepack OR skin) → operator appends more at any rung.
DEFAULT_CATALOG (entitlements.js) + migration 028 + MONETIZATION.md ladder table.
- Tests updated to the new thresholds (catalogEntitlements_ultra, directEntryCredit_ultra).
Note: this reprices roguelike-interior from free → 1cr, so once deployed the free
tavern becomes bare (by design). Deploy is bundled with the single-player render-kit
migration so the free-tier change lands with its payoff. Suite 61/432 green.
The shared "juice" layer, pure-canvas (CSP-safe, no WebGL/shaders), driven off a
clock so both renderers light a scene the same way:
- html/js/render/fxLayer.js (NEW): RK.fx — layered-sine flame flicker, additive
warm glow, a dancing two-layer canvas flame, and pulsing hazard overlays
(lava/poison/spikes) with a footprint-clip callback so it fits square cells
and iso diamonds alike.
- Tavern now has FIRE: 4 corner braziers + a hearth on the left wall throw real
flickering light. Placed along walls, clear of spawn/aisles/tables.
- Both renderers: torch/hearth/hazard tiles draw only their FLOOR base in the
static pass (no more solid amber block), then RK.fx paints the animated flame
/ hazard pulse in the live loop. Tiled caches emitter positions and draws them
over the vignette so light punches through the dark edges; iso adds them as
depth-sorted fx items and keeps its RAF alive while any fire/hazard is onscreen.
- Dungeon hazard zones wired end-to-end in the scene model (lava L / poison P /
spikes ^ chars -> pulsing tiles) — they render the moment the generator emits
them; no client-authoritative fakes.
- fxLayer.js included in tavern.html + match.html.
Suite 58/419 green; render files node --check clean.
Fixes the "thin disconnected slabs" on the top-left/bottom-right walls and juices
the iso scene:
- Wall facing: iso walls have an orientation. A run along grid-x uses the _S
rotation, a run along grid-y uses the perpendicular _W (I viewed the tiles:
_S faces SW, _W faces SE — the two camera-facing rotations), and true corners
use the corner tile. The renderer picks per-cell from neighbours. Enclosing
walls now read as continuous faces on all four edges. Same logic gives
windows/doors a Y rotation.
- Floor variety: deterministic per-cell hash sprinkles planksBroken into wood
floors and stoneTile/stoneUneven into stone — no more flat identical sea.
- Juice: soft contact shadows ground every prop + character, and a warm radial
vignette lights the room instead of it looking pasted onto black.
- Tavern map: barrels/crates line the side walls (clear of windows/spawn, via
the wall-safe put()) so the lobby reads lived-in in every render mode.
Suite 58/419 green.
Modes are TECHNIQUES; 'Fancy' (tiles+FX) was really a topdown PACK, so:
- Remove 'fancy' from RENDER_MODES (saved 'fancy' falls back to tiles; its dead
Pixi branch is short-circuited by canUseMode). Modes = Tiled/ASCII/Iso/3D.
- Modes now carry a ; a premium mode unlocks once the user has ANY
unlocked pack for that projection (not a single hardcoded pack) — needed now
that iso is multi-pack.
- New 'roguelike-dungeon' topdown pack: same sheet, a DUNGEON palette (stone
floors + barrels/crates vs the wood interior) — a distinct 2D tileset with zero
new assets. Registered + catalog (migration 027, topdown tier 1 / 1 credit).
The tiled renderer's lighting/shadows/vignette are the built-in FX.
- Also: iso facing fix (Male 0=NW..6=NE) reflected in tests.
So the Tiled pack picker now offers Roguelike Interior <-> Dungeon, and Iso offers
Dungeon <-> Medieval — packs as products, proven in the best-looking mode too.
Suite 58/419 green.
Proves the packs-as-products loop end to end:
- Copied Kenney Isometric Medieval Town wood tiles (floor/floor2/wall/window/
door/banner) into assets/kenney/iso-medieval/.
- Registered 'iso-medieval' as a 2nd iso RENDER pack (its own tile geometry —
Medieval tiles are shorter than the dungeon set; reuses the dungeon characters).
Strong on architecture; no medieval furniture at this scale, so furniture kinds
fall back to floor for now (shines most in the dungeon).
- Catalog product: DEFAULT_CATALOG + migration 026, iso tier 2 / 15 credits.
- PACK PICKER in the tavern: when a projection has >1 unlocked pack, a selector
appears to switch live (setActivePack -> re-render). Uses ?unlock=1 to preview.
So: switch Iso ★, and the pack picker lets you flip iso-dungeon <-> Medieval Town
live. Adding the next pack = assets + registerPack + a catalog row. Suite 58/419 green.
- catSprites: scale the cat to ~2.7x its cell (the sprite is ~40% cat, 60%
transparent padding) so it reads tile-sized instead of tiny.
- tavernMap: remove the centre rug — tile 923 renders green, which looks wrong on
the wood floor. (Re-add with a verified warm rug tile later.)
Used the sheet's hand-labelled roguelikeSheet_meta.json to pick the RIGHT tiles
instead of guessing:
- New tile kinds + coords (window, counter, keg/barrel, shelf, table, chair,
crate, rug, door) in sceneModel TAVERN_LEGEND/TILE_OF + assetPacks tileMap.
- tavernMap redesigned: windowed walls, a bar counter with a shelf of bottles
behind it and a keg (beer!) at each end, six tables each with a chair, a
central rug, corner barrels/crates, and a door. Chairs are walkable so standing
on one reads as sitting. Warm wood floor color (was a dark green in the fallback).
- Bartender now stands BEHIND the bar (spawn + roam confined to the row between
the top wall and the counter, sealed off by it).
Still TODO from feedback: a cat (no cat sprite on the sheet — needs an asset) and
richer bar bottles. Suite 57 suites / 413 tests green.
Phase 2 — a signed-in player can post global chat under their OWN Smirk npub
instead of the shared bridge account:
- src/utils/verifyChatEvent.js: verify a client-signed chat event with the same
defenses as verifyNip98Event (rebuild clean event, recompute id, verify schnorr,
freshness) PLUS the impersonation guard — the event's pubkey MUST equal the
session's authenticated npub (users.smirk_public_key from NIP-98 login).
- ChatProvider.relaySignedEvent (base: local delivery only) + NostrChatProvider
override (local delivery + publish the PRE-SIGNED event to the relays, no
re-signing, echo-deduped) so it carries the player's npub.
- chatHandler.handleSignedChatMessage: rate-limit + resolve the session npub +
verify + escape + relay. socketHandlers wires the event. Serves
lobby + tavern (both render the global broadcast).
- html/js/smirkChatSign.js + tavern send wire: feature-detected client helper —
signs via window.smirk.signNostrEvent, falls back to the unsigned send when
Smirk isn't connected, so it's inert (and safe) until a page has a wallet.
Premium -> cosmetics (the P1 catalog already had the hook):
- entitlements.levelForUser now takes the HIGHER of premium_level and an
active-subscription tier, so a wowne.ro premium sub sets the entitlement tier
and unlocks tile/customization packs at/below it — one sub, chat perks +
cosmetics. Buying credits still never joins the premium ladder.
Behavior-preserving: no subscription_tier => unchanged; chat_signed only fires
when a client opts in. The client signing path needs browser verification against
a connected Smirk wallet (like the NIP-98 login). Tests: +13 (verify incl.
impersonation/tamper/channel/freshness, relay+echo-dedupe, sub-tier unlock).
Suite 56 suites / 407 tests green.
Gameplay becomes a data object. A Ruleset captures world/entities/players/
win-condition/timing/economy, and MatchRoom now READS it instead of hardcoding
'first to the exit wins' — so new modes are data, not new subsystems.
- src/game/rulesets/Ruleset.js: defineRuleset normalizer (frozen, clamped, safe
defaults) + WIN/ECONOMY enums.
- src/game/rulesets/winConditions.js: strategies with onExit/onDeath/rank hooks.
FIRST_TO_EXIT is a verbatim port of the old race logic (so existing matches are
byte-identical); LAST_ALIVE (PvP battle-royale), HIGH_SCORE (score attack) and
ALL_ESCAPE (co-op) are new.
- src/game/rulesets/registry.js: built-ins (solo-classic descriptor, race,
last-alive, score-attack, coop-escape) + getRuleset/listRulesets +
rulesetFromMatchOpts (legacy opts -> race, preserved).
- MatchRoom: resolves a ruleset (explicit object / rulesetId / legacy opts),
delegates win/lose/rank to the strategy, honors entities.monster (optional
monster) and entities.pvpCombat (stepping onto a living rival strikes them
down; attacker holds position), and takes timing from the ruleset. deathOrder
tracked for the last-alive tiebreak.
The live single-player engine is intentionally NOT refactored (represented as the
'solo-classic' descriptor for catalog parity only — too risky to touch the
deployed path). PvP modes are opt-in via rulesetId; the scheduler still builds
'race' so nothing changes until wired.
Behavior-preserving: all 5 existing match suites (42 tests) green unchanged.
Tests: +9 (ruleset normalize/registry + real-MatchRoom last-alive kill->winner,
high-score no-instant-win, race-unchanged). Suite 55 suites / 391 tests green.
Migration 024 adds a server-authoritative cosmetic_catalog table (seeds today's 4 packs). New CatalogService loads it (cached, falls back to a built-in default when the table is absent). entitlements.snapshotForUser is rewritten to the three-way unlock rule — a pack unlocks via: it's free, an explicit grant, lifetime spend >= its threshold, OR premium tier >= its tier. This kills the old bug where ANY purchase (total_credits_purchased>0 -> level 'credits') unlocked EVERY premium pack, and makes '1 credit -> skin A, 10-pack -> pack B' expressible. Credit-buying no longer auto-promotes to a premium tier. Snapshot now ships a catalog summary to the client (the seed for killing the client-side split-brain next). identityService loads + passes the catalog. +13 tests (catalogEntitlements_ultra), suite 48/343 green.
First stone of the P1 foundation (branch feat/credits-catalog-foundation). Next: client consumes the served catalog (retires RK.PACKS), direct payment -> mint 1 credit, then the buy modal reflects the unified model.
Adds a complete block-cadence multiplayer race mode alongside solo and tavern.
Disabled by default; enable with MATCH_ENABLED=true.
Highlights:
- New shared engine: MatchRoom, MatchEngine, MatchState (transport-agnostic, unit-tested).
- Per-economy queues: free, credits_prestige, crypto_race with atomic escrow/refund.
- MatchScheduler drains queues on every new block and starts 2–32 player races.
- MatchManager handles Socket.IO lifecycle, server-authoritative movement, reconnect grace,
forfeit/AFK handling, and end-of-match persistence.
- Crypto races use race-entry tickets (grants.race_entries) to avoid on-chain refunds; winner
payout is queued through the existing batch payout/retry service.
- Leaderboard integration: free → Pleb, prestige → /api/leaderboard?board=prestige,
crypto → Hall of Champions.
- Tavern integration: Queue for Race panel, active race list, and live spectator rendering.
- Dedicated /match.html client with economy selector, race HUD, and post-match scoreboard.
- Migration 022 adds matches, match_entrants, match_events, match_queue_entries,
race_entry_transactions, users.race_entries, and payouts.match_id.
Docs:
- New docs/MATCH_MODE.md with full architecture, config, events, and operational notes.
- Updated README.md, docs/TAVERN_AND_MULTIPLAYER.md, docs/TODO.md, src/.env.example,
and src/.env.
Tests: 40 new unit tests across 7 suites, all passing.
Known follow-ups for real-world validation:
- Full integration test with Postgres + Socket.IO.
- Server boot check with MATCH_ENABLED=false (default) to ensure solo/tavern remain unaffected.
- Browser render-kit verification in /match.html and tavern spectator.
- Crypto-race payout end-to-end with real wallet-rpc.
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