#74: RESEARCH_LAB_CHANCE raised from 0.08 to 0.16 - research points
gate mid/late skill-tree nodes and vessel/lab research now (#63), so
0.08 was too scarce for how central they'd become to progression.
#75: an extractor placed on a research_lab planet would sit on an
empty resource id forever, since it yields nothing by design. Refused
in BuildController's placement confirm, with the same "explain the
refusal" idiom every other build gate uses. register_capture_points()
gained an optional definition_id parameter so the refusal/reward logic
can tell a research_lab planet apart without threading an extra
argument through every existing caller.
#76: conquering a research_lab awarded a research point with no
on-screen acknowledgement beyond a HUD number the player has no reason
to be watching at that exact moment. CaptureLabel's existing
"CONQUERED" flash now names the reward directly on a research_lab.
test_extractor_building.gd and test_planet_conquest_gate.gd both use a
"first planet chunk found" scan with no regard for definition_id; in
this world's fixed seed that chunk happens to be a research_lab, so
#75's new gate started refusing their otherwise-unrelated extractor
placement checks. Both now skip a research_lab chunk when picking
their target, same as test_research_lab_extractor_gate.gd does on
purpose for its own dedicated coverage of that refusal.
Planets now need every capture point held before an extractor can go
up there: GameState tracks per-planet capture progress keyed by the
same stable planet_id as extractors, and BuildController's four
extractor placement checks (menu enable, status text, info popup,
confirm) all re-check conquest, not just proximity/duplication.
Part of the #40 conquest-mechanic breakdown.
Gameplay and UI
- Research tree at the mothership gates which structures can be built and
grants permanent fleet-capacity upgrades (GameState.SKILL_TREE,
SkillTreeView). Node depth is derived from prerequisites, so the layout
cannot drift out of step with the dependencies.
- Building info popup before committing to a build, with per-building cost
and description.
- Ship crafter redrawn as a space factory with an assembly animation;
mothership redrawn as a radial flagship; command centre as a plotting hub.
- Keyboard and mouse support (WASD, Q/E pivot, wheel zoom) for the web build.
- UI and font scaled up for phone use, via a custom Theme resource -
gui/theme/default_font_size does not reach the default theme.
- Asteroids no longer spawn on top of the fleet's start position.
- Fleet formation origin derived from the layout's own offsets rather than
the centroid, fixing the lurch when a lopsided formation started moving.
- Fleet.stop() brakes from the ship's TRUE motion (velocity +
fleet_velocity). Ship zeroes its velocity when seated in its slot even
while the anchor drags that slot forward, so braking from velocity alone
stopped the fleet dead instead of coasting - and whether it did depended
on the frame rate.
Animation architecture (issue #10)
- Buildings, projectiles and explosion VFX no longer animate by redrawing.
Static geometry is rasterised once in _draw(); moving parts are NeonPiece
children animated through node properties, which reuse the cached
geometry. Every NeonDraw call expands into four antialiased polylines, so
redrawing to move something re-tessellated all of it.
Test suite (issue #8): 1075s -> ~55s
- Runs from a copy on Termux's own filesystem. The project lives on
Android's FUSE bridge, read through proot, where load("res://Main.tscn")
alone cost 8.5s per test against ~2s natively - and nearly every test
loads it.
- Runs 6 tests at a time, in a single proot-distro login, with output
buffered per test and printed only on failure.
- --fixed-fps 60 pins delta instead of measuring the wall clock, so a test's
result no longer depends on how busy the machine is. Without it,
parallelism made two tests fail on 2 of 3 runs.
- A test passes only if it both exits 0 and prints ": PASS".
- 38 tests, green on three consecutive runs.
Bundles Carrois Gothic SC (Apache 2.0) with its licence text.
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A fleet of neon-outlined ships explores a procedurally generated, seeded
infinite world: tap/joystick steering, pinch zoom, formation pivoting,
planet landings, an ore economy with extractors and haulers, and player
built structures (mothership, ship crafter, command centre).
All art is hand-drawn with draw_* calls rather than textures, and the
backgrounds are camera-relative shaders so they stay precise at large
world coordinates.
Includes a 35-test headless suite (tests/run_tests.sh) plus screenshot
tooling that renders real frames through Xvfb and Mesa softpipe, since
--headless has no GPU.
Excluded from version control: .godot/ (import cache, and it holds
export credentials), builds/, android/build/ and packaged APKs - all
regenerable, and ~325 MB combined.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
