Eric WagonerandClaude Fable 5.1
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A day of Eric watching the clips as a newcomer would. The camera can pitch: FirstPerson takes a `pitch` that shears the horizon up the pane (walls center on it, the eye stays half a wall high), so the ground at the pane's foot comes within half a cell. The director uses it for deeds at your own feet — a conjuration on your square, a treasure taken up, the pit you fell down — instead of the cutaway that stepped outside your body. Everything shows through a warp. The floor pass now runs between the cast and the wall draw, so a column that bent through a mouth maps its ground through the warp's rigid motion and wears the far room's decals — the pit past the wormhole included — under the same violet haze as its walls. A wizard down a pit is public (inPit on the player view), drawn sunk to the floor line in first person and dimmed on the board. A body sharing your square, which had no depth to draw at, stands right in front of you. A pit leap glides like a shove instead of cutting. And the director's blocked-sight test no longer counts a warp BEYOND the target as a block, nor stands a cutaway camera inside another wizard's square — the pair that put Wanderer's face across the whole pane. The reel stops for a die: a card over the held world names who rolls and for what, tumbles the faces on the reel's own clock, lands the roll, and only then plays the outcome; the beat, the fx, the glides and the camera all wait it out. A punch by you drives a fist into the scene; one at you comes at the camera; both land with a comic POW. film-clips rolls until the reel's last move rather than a fixed count, and the gate settles longer on a step whose caption rolls a die. All thirty goldens re-blessed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Jm2auWk6RP71CjaAb4FMoG
Deploying Wiz-War
The game runs on a single DigitalOcean droplet: one Node process serves the built client and the websocket on port 8787; Caddy in front terminates TLS with automatic certificates. Room files persist in /var/lib/wizwar/rooms and survive deploys and reboots.
Current production
- Droplet:
wizwar(nyc3, s-1vcpu-1gb, tagwizwar), IP 104.236.96.198 - URLs: https://wizwar.kestrelsnest.social and https://wizwar.104.236.96.198.sslip.io (always works, zero DNS). Caddy serves both; NOTE: kestrelsnest.social's authoritative DNS is at HOVER (ns1/ns2.hover.com), not DigitalOcean — records must be added there. A matching record also sits in the DO zone in case nameservers ever move.
Everyday deploys
deploy/deploy.sh 104.236.96.198
Builds the client locally, rsyncs the repo (minus node_modules, data/, .git, research), installs dependencies on the droplet, and restarts the service. Games in progress survive: state lives in room files, and clients reconnect automatically.
Before any deploy that touches the engine, run the determinism gate:
deploy/verify-ledgers.sh 104.236.96.198
It fetches every production ledger and strictly replays it against the local engine; a single refused command fails the check. A room whose ledger no longer replays becomes unreachable after restart, so this is not optional.
New droplet from scratch
doctl compute droplet create wizwar --region nyc3 --size s-1vcpu-1gb \ --image ubuntu-24-04-x64 --ssh-keys <your-key-ids> --tag-name wizwar --waitscp deploy/setup-droplet.sh root@<ip>:/root/ && ssh root@<ip> \ "bash /root/setup-droplet.sh wizwar.<ip>.sslip.io"deploy/deploy.sh <ip>
Operations
- Logs:
ssh root@<ip> journalctl -u wizwar -f - Restart:
ssh root@<ip> systemctl restart wizwar - Nightly backups:
wizwar-backup.shruns from root's crontab at 07:17 UTC, pushing /var/lib/wizwar to thekestrel-wizwar-backupsSpace (nyc3) via rclone. It is installed at /usr/local/bin/wizwar-backup.sh on the droplet;setup-droplet.shdoes NOT install it — on a fresh droplet, copy the script, configure rclone (the script refuses to run while the config still holds its CHANGE_ME placeholder), and add the cron entry by hand. - One-off backup:
scp -r root@<ip>:/var/lib/wizwar/rooms ./rooms-backup