The front page and the about page point to the other games of the Kestrel's Nest

The list is the kit's family.json, shipped as /family.json and refreshed
at deploy when the kit is beside this checkout.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jm2auWk6RP71CjaAb4FMoG

deploy/deploy.sh

@@ -3,6 +3,10 @@
 set -euo pipefail
 HOST="${1:?usage: deploy.sh <droplet-ip-or-host>}"
 
+# The family list is the kit's; the site deploys with the kit's latest copy when the kit is beside this checkout.
+KIT_FAMILY="$(dirname "$0")/../../game-kit/family.json"
+[ -f "$KIT_FAMILY" ] && cp "$KIT_FAMILY" packages/web/public/family.json
+
 npm run build --workspace=@wizwar/web
 # Old hashed chunks stay a week: a page loaded before this deploy can still
 # fetch the module it was built against instead of failing mid-game.

packages/web/public/family.json

@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+{
+  "family": "the Kestrel's Nest",
+  "games": [
+    {
+      "slug": "wizwar",
+      "name": "Wiz-War",
+      "url": "https://wizwar.kestrelsnest.social",
+      "pitch": "Steal treasure. Blast through walls. Outwit your friends.",
+      "players": "2 to 6",
+      "origin": "Tom Jolly's board game, sixth edition, 1993"
+    },
+    {
+      "slug": "waving-hands",
+      "name": "Waving Hands",
+      "url": "https://hands.kestrelsnest.social",
+      "pitch": "Duelling wizards. Two hands each. The right run of gestures is a spell.",
+      "players": "2 to 12",
+      "origin": "Richard Bartle's pencil-and-paper duel, 1977"
+    }
+  ]
+}

packages/web/src/App.svelte

@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
   import Card from "./Card.svelte";
   import Help from "./Help.svelte";
   import { HELP_TABS, type HelpTab } from "./help-state";
+  import { otherGames, type FamilyGame } from "./family";
   import { summarizeMissed } from "./catchup";
   import Replay from "./Replay.svelte";
   import FxGallery from "./FxGallery.svelte";
@@ -26,6 +27,11 @@
   net.startGamePolling();
 
   let name = $state(prefs.wizardName);
+  /** The other games of the Kestrel's Nest, for the front page. */
+  let family = $state<FamilyGame[]>([]);
+  $effect(() => {
+    void otherGames("wizwar").then((g) => (family = g));
+  });
   let joinCode = $state("");
   let claimPhrase = $state("");
   /** A /join/<CODE> recruiting link. The visitor lands looking at the
@@ -2561,6 +2567,10 @@
             <img src="/hero.jpg" alt="Through a wizard's eyes: an ambush watches its corridor through a wormhole" />
           </a>
           <a class="about-link clips-link" href="/clips">watch clips from the labyrinth</a>
+          {#if family.length}
+            <p class="family-line">Also at the Kestrel's Nest:
+              {#each family as g, i (g.slug)}{i > 0 ? ", " : " "}<a href={g.url} title={g.pitch}>{g.name}</a>{/each}</p>
+          {/if}
         </div>
 
         <details class="more-ways" open={local.hasSave()}>
@@ -4108,6 +4118,8 @@
     margin-bottom: 1.2rem;
   }
   .about-link:hover { color: #43331f; }
+  .family-line { margin: 0.5rem 0 0; font-size: 0.85rem; color: #7b6a51; }
+  .family-line a { color: #5a4630; }
   .clips-link { display: inline-block; margin: 0 0 0.9rem; }
   .field { display: block; text-align: left; margin-bottom: 1rem; }
   .field span {

packages/web/src/Help.svelte

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
   // body, the card library with proper entries, the house rulings, the
   // story of the table, and the tally. Every section and card has a link
   // a player can send; the desk remembers where the reader was.
+  import { otherGames, type FamilyGame } from "./family";
   import { cardDef } from "@wizwar/engine";
   import { tick } from "svelte";
   import Card from "./Card.svelte";
@@ -127,6 +128,11 @@
     if (initialAnchor) void jumpTo(initialAnchor);
     else if (bodyEl) bodyEl.scrollTop = helpState.scroll[tab] ?? 0;
   });
+  /** The other games of the Kestrel's Nest, for the about page. */
+  let family = $state<FamilyGame[]>([]);
+  $effect(() => {
+    void otherGames("wizwar").then((g) => (family = g));
+  });
 </script>
 
 {#snippet section(s: RefSection, withSource: boolean)}
@@ -311,6 +317,14 @@
             The keeper of this table roosts at
             <a href="https://kestrelsnest.social" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">kestrelsnest.social</a>.
           </p>
+          {#if family.length}
+            <h3>More games at the Kestrel's Nest</h3>
+            <ul class="family">
+              {#each family as g (g.slug)}
+                <li><a href={g.url}>{g.name}</a>: {g.pitch} <span class="family-note">{g.players} players; {g.origin}.</span></li>
+              {/each}
+            </ul>
+          {/if}
           <p class="colophon">
             Wiz-War © Tom Jolly. Sixth edition published by Chessex, 1993.
             Built by Eric and a very enthusiastic AI, 2026.
@@ -691,4 +705,7 @@
     .entry-card :global(.card:hover) { transform: none; }
     .contents { columns: 1; }
   }
+  .family { margin: 0.4rem 0 0.8rem 1.2rem; padding: 0; }
+  .family li + li { margin-top: 0.3rem; }
+  .family-note { color: #7b6a51; }
 </style>

packages/web/src/family.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+// The other games of the Kestrel's Nest, from the family list the kit keeps
+// (family.json, one copy shipped with every game), so a player who liked one
+// table can find the next. This game is left out of its own list.
+
+export interface FamilyGame {
+  slug: string;
+  name: string;
+  url: string;
+  pitch: string;
+  players: string;
+  origin: string;
+}
+
+export async function otherGames(self: string): Promise<FamilyGame[]> {
+  try {
+    const res = await fetch('/family.json', { cache: 'no-cache' });
+    if (!res.ok) return [];
+    const data = (await res.json()) as { games?: FamilyGame[] };
+    return (data.games ?? []).filter((g) => g.slug !== self);
+  } catch {
+    return [];
+  }
+}