The maze performs: doors swing, walls die loudly, homes wear their colors

Entertainment polish for the instant replay, all through one wizard's
eyes. Doors now slide open along their own edge — Wolf3D style — when
anyone steps through in a reel, hold for the crossing, and swing shut;
the raycaster takes a per-edge openness map and doors carry their
texture with them, leaving a sliver of jamb at the far post. A wall
that dies bursts into stone and shakes the camera, then leaves a mound
of rubble at the fallen edge for the rest of the reel (a tenth
paintable sprite, drawn opaque — debris, not light). Jammed locks
seethe: a rusty pulse across the wood, keyed off the view's own door
states. Walking THROUGH a wall shimmers on both faces and washes the
walker's own screen stone-gray. And every home base wears its owner's
emblem on the flagstones — a near-white paintable overlay tinted by
wizard color per cell in the floor cast.

Testing surfaced a real ghost: a body standing near a far warp mouth
also rendered at its virtual position, which can overlap real
corridors — the depth buffer alone cannot clip it. Every column now
remembers whether its ray bent, and a sprite draws only where its warp
side matches the column's; projectile legs carry the same flag.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Eric Wagoner
2026-08-23 16:30:35 -04:00
co-authored by Claude Fable 5
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@@ -39,11 +39,22 @@ all nine are shown side by side at `/?tokens` under "The conjurations."
| `hit.png` | impact | damage landing on someone you can see; punches, claws |
| `shimmer.png` | impact | teleports, warps, illusions, minds touched — the general "magic happened here" glimmer, violet by tradition |
| `shield.png` | impact | an attack fully stopped; absorbed spells |
| `rubble.png` | prop | a destroyed wall's remains: bursts on the kill, then stands as a mound at the fallen edge for the rest of the reel. Unlike the others this is drawn OPAQUE (normal compositing) — paint it as solid debris, not light |
Projectiles hold their size in flight (about a third of a wizard's
height). Impacts start small and swell to roughly double while fading —
so an impact painted as a ring or burst reads especially well.
What the sprites do NOT need to carry: screen-wide flashes when YOU are
hit (red), healed (green), or teleported (violet), and the camera shake
those are renderer effects, not images.
hit (red), healed (green), or teleported (violet), the camera shake, the
door slide (doors animate by sliding `door.png` along its own edge — no
separate art), and the jammed-lock seethe (a pulsing rust glow the
renderer lays over the door) — those are renderer effects, not images.
## One more paintable surface: the home tile
`public/textures/home.png` is a floor overlay for home-base cells,
drawn over the flagstones and TINTED by the owning wizard's color at
draw time. Paint it near-white/neutral with transparency wherever the
plain floor should show through; the tint does the rest. Square, any
size, same as the other textures.