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Emoji Aimer 3

Summary

UI overhaul session: built a chip-style HUD, restructured the screen into a square play area flanked by visible side walls, added per-resource collider shapes, then designed and iterated on a SNKRX-style yellow-circle round-end → shop transition. Resources also got physical collisions with targets.

Scope alignment up front:

  • Two AskUserQuestion calls confirmed: stay on the existing rails (no deck-builder, no cards, no random shops). Layout reference images (reference/ui_layout_*.png) used as aesthetic reference only — chip chrome borrowed, hand row / draft / deck builder ignored.
  • Read both prior session summaries (emoji-aimer-1.md, emoji-aimer-2.md) and the handover prompt at line 3633 of session 2's transcript.

HUD chip helper (draw_hud_chip):

  • New helper after roll_drops. Draws a cream rounded panel on ui_panel_layer + icon and text on ui_content_layer. Returns (chip_w, chip_h) so callers can stack.
  • Iterated heavily on dimensions: pad 3 → 6 → 3 → split into pad_x = 3 / pad_y = 5; icon 10 → 14; gap 3 → 4; vertical text nudged +1px to compensate for LanaPixel sitting high in its 11px box.
  • Initially used fonts.big (FatPixelFont @ 8) and black() text — user corrected: keep fonts.main (LanaPixel), text in white() so the outline shader's halo gives black-on-cream contrast.
  • Added min_text_w parameter — the timer chip passes font_get_text_width('main', '88:88') as the worst-case width so it doesn't twitch as digits change. Kills/gold chips left unstabilized for now (user can request the same).
  • Added gap override (5th arg) per chip — hourglass has ~2px built-in transparent right padding, bullseye + coin fill their bbox edge-to-edge, so kills/coin chips pass gap=6 to match the timer's visual icon→text spacing.

HUD layout reorganizations:

  • Started top-left horizontal stack at (4, 4): timer chip + ROUND text + kills text + gold text.
  • Iteration 1: replaced TIME line with chip, kept ROUND text and pushed lines down.
  • Iteration 2: added kills + gold chips, kept ROUND text plain between timer and kills.
  • Iteration 3: removed ROUND text entirely.
  • Iteration 4: introduced HUD_TOP_H = 30 / HUD_BOTTOM_H = 30 strip constants; chips moved to horizontal layout inside top strip; added crude semi-transparent red debug overlays on debug_layer showing both reserved zones; spawn area = [ARENA_X_MIN..MAX, HUD_TOP_H..gh-HUD_BOTTOM_H].
  • Iteration 5: added side_pad = 10, chip_gap = 10 (later both 8/6), bumped strip heights 30 → 40.
  • Iteration 6: removed debug strip overlay.

Floor introduction:

  • Bottom wall collider repositioned: top face now sits at y = gh - HUD_BOTTOM_H instead of just below the screen.
  • Added a visible white (later fg() cream) rectangle on game_layer filling the bottom HUD strip — outline shader gives the top a clean black wall-surface edge.
  • Added FLOOR_BLEED = 10 so the rect overflows on left/right/bottom past the screen, preventing the camera handcam (±2px translate + ±0.02 rad rotate) from exposing the sky behind it.
  • Added TARGET_HUD_MARGIN = 6 — buffer between target edges and HUD strip lines.

Debug AABB visualization:

  • Refactored wall creation to a create_wall(x, y, w, h) helper that maintains a parallel walls_aabb table with top-left + size for each wall (so the debug viz can outline them without poking at colliders).
  • Drew red wall outlines + green resource outlines on debug_layer, camera-attached so they line up with the world; mem tracker still draws unattached so it doesn't shake.
  • First attempt used color(255, 0, 255)() magenta and color(0, 255, 255)() cyan at line_width = 1 — user couldn't see them. Bumped to red() / green() palette globals at line_width = 2.
  • Eventually became per-shape: layer_circle_line for coins, layer_polygon_line for gems (vertices rotated by fx.rotation), layer_rectangle_line for crowns (with offset support). Found layer_polygon_line and layer_rectangle_line signatures in anchor/layer.lua.

Per-resource collider shapes:

  • Added RESOURCE_COLLIDER table keyed by kind: coin = circle (radius 9), gem = polygon, crown = box (w=20, h=17, offset_y=2).
  • resource:new branches on cd.shape to call collider(self, 'resource', 'dynamic', <shape>, ...).
  • All resources call set_fixed_rotation(false) so they tumble freely.
  • Crash fix: physics_add_polygon got nil because the collider constructor pops the last table arg as opts — for polygon, the vertices table IS the only shape arg. Fix: pass an explicit empty {} opts table after vertices.
  • Box shape supports offset_x / offset_y via physics_add_box opts; threaded through both collider creation and the debug viz.

Gem polygon iterations (the diamond shape):

  • {0, -6, 6, 0, 0, 6, -6, 0} (equilateral square rotated 45°) → user "looks like a small square".
  • {0, -4, 7, 0, 0, 7, -7, 0} — wider rhombus, asymmetric vertically.
  • {0, -7, 7, -1, 0, 6, -7, -1} — moved up 1px, top apex extended 2px taller.
  • {0, -8, 8, -1, 0, 7, -8, -1} — overall ~14% bigger.
  • {0, -10, 10, -1, 0, 9, -10, -1} — bigger again, +visual sizes 13 → 17.
  • User: "now it's right, but you've scaled the visuals up" — reverted RESOURCE_SIZES to 13/13/16, kept polygon big.
  • User: "still a rectangle ultimately. A polygon has 2 sides on the base, then 2 more smaller sides, then another at the top. It's 5 sides."
  • Final 5-vertex polygon: {-5, -8, 5, -8, 9, -3, 0, 9, -9, -3} (flat top, widest above center, pointy bottom).
  • Side vertices pushed out 1px: {-5, -8, 5, -8, 10, -3, 0, 9, -10, -3}.

Crown box iterations:

  • 14×9 → 14×15 → 16×15 → 18×15 + offset_y=-2 → +4 → 20×17 + offset_y=2.

Debug spawn keys:

  • Z = coin, X = gem, C = crown, all spawn at cursor position via mouse_position().
  • F2 toggles debug AABB overlay (debug_draw_visible), default off.

Square play area restructure:

  • Replaced HUD_TOP_H / HUD_BOTTOM_H with PLAY_AREA_SIZE = gh and SIDE_WALL_W = (gw - PLAY_AREA_SIZE)/2 = 105.
  • Renamed FLOOR_BLEED to WALL_BLEED.
  • Wall colliders repositioned: top + bottom now off-screen (invisible), left/right side walls have inner faces at SIDE_WALL_W and gw - SIDE_WALL_W.
  • Removed the floor visual; added two cream side-wall rectangles on game_layer bleeding past their outer screen edges.
  • HUD chips restructured from horizontal-top to vertical stack on top of the LEFT wall: stack_x = 8, stack_y = 8, chip_gap = 6.
  • Arena spawn bounds updated: ARENA_X_MIN = SIDE_WALL_W + TARGET_HUD_MARGIN, etc.
  • Targets spawn anywhere inside the 270×270 square, with 6px buffer from each wall.

Round-end → shop wipe transition (SNKRX TransitionEffect pattern):

  • Found TransitionEffect in SNKRX/shared.lua:453-489. Pattern: 0.25s pause → 0.6s linear expand to 1.2*gw → action → 0.3s mid hold → recenter → 0.6s linear shrink. Chained timer:after / timer:tween callbacks rather than manual phase counters.
  • First attempt: manual transition_phase / transition_timer globals + per-frame phase machine + distance_to_farthest_corner helper. Replaced with single transition table holding phase, radius, origin_x/y, timer = timer_new(). All motion lives in start_round_end_transition() via chained timer_after/timer_tween.
  • Constants: TRANSITION_IN_DURATION = 0.6, TRANSITION_MID_DURATION = 0.3, TRANSITION_OUT_DURATION = 0.4 (started 0.5, then 0.6 to match SNKRX, then user shortened), TRANSITION_FINAL_RADIUS = 1.2*gw (overshoots both possible origins).
  • Added dedicated transition_layer (with transition_outline partner) drawn AFTER cursor in the composite — yellow circle covers everything including cursor. Wired through outline shader pass like other layers.
  • Out phase origin: started at screen center, changed to mouse_position() per user. Easing went linear → cubic_in → cubic_out per user.
  • run_reset recreates transition.timer so chained callbacks abandon cleanly on R press during a wipe.

Round-end flow design (multiple iterations):

  • Initial: kill targets + auto-credit resources at trigger, immediately start transition.
  • User: "When you pause the game everything visually disappears" — reverted to vacuum behavior. Resources auto-vacuum to cursor (gated by game_state == 'cleared' in resource:update), transition only triggers when any_live_resource() returns false.
  • User questioned "How are you pausing right now?" — answered honestly: NOT pausing. The "pause" phase was just a timer_after delay; the empty arena was caused by killing targets at trigger.
  • Found Anchor's standard pause via engine_set_time_scale(0) (docs at Anchor2/docs/ENGINE_API.md:2165). Framework's update(dt) gets unscaled dt by design — to respect pause, multiply by time_scale global or call engine_get_dt(). Did NOT end up applying this.
  • User suggested keeping targets alive until circle covers screen, then later "Or rather, only kill them after the circle has already taken over the screen. But... You should be killing everything, the round itself, after the circle covers the screen, in that change from round to map, the targets should die. Why are they dying before?"
  • Final flow: kills hit target → game_state = 'cleared' (no kills, just state flip) → vacuum runs (alive targets sit there inert because clicks gated to 'playing') → last resource collected → start_round_end_transition() immediately (NO pause phase) → circle expands 0.6s → advance_round() at mid (kills alive targets/effects + swaps bg) → 0.3s mid hold → cursor-centered cubic_out shrink 0.4s.

Resource ↔ target collisions:

  • Registered new 'target' physics tag, enabled 'resource''target' collision.
  • Targets get static circle collider sized to TARGET_RADIUS = 12; target:destroy cleans it up.
  • collision_entities_begin('resource', 'target') events pull 'main' spring on resource and 'hit' spring on target by 0.15 each.

UI camera attachment:

  • Wrapped entire UI draw section (HUD chips + win/lose overlay + shop UI) in camera_attach(main_camera, ui_panel_layer) + camera_attach(main_camera, ui_content_layer) so chips wobble with the side walls under handcam.
  • overlay_layer (shop dim), cursor_layer, transition_layer deliberately NOT camera-attached so dim, cursor, and wipe stay screen-locked.

Misc:

  • Cleared a couple of failed Edits where the file had been modified between Read and Edit calls — re-read the section first, applied the change.
  • Iterated from cubic_outlinearcubic_incubic_out on the wipe-out easing.

Let's continue on Emoji Aimer. Read the summaries for Emoji Aimer 1 and Emoji Aimer 2. This session we'll continue by doing the UI properly, then changing the game's loop slightly, then adding items so we can build a proper shop screen.

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1    Title: Emoji Aimer 1
2   Date: 2026-05-07 10:15:41
3   
4   # Emoji Aimer 1
5   
6   ## Summary
7   
8   First session on `emoji-aimer/` — built a click-to-damage aim-trainer prototype on Anchor 2. Started with a brainstorm of an emoji-based aim-practice build-heavy game, ended with a working 4-round game loop (round 1 → 2 → 3 → 4, win/lose conditions, manual round advance via button).
9   
10  **Game concept brainstorm:**
11  - Discussed emoji-based aim trainer with builds; user shared 4 reference screenshots from a Twitter-emoji prototype (bullseye targets, item shop, boss eye-creature)
12  - Pivoted from "Brotato-with-emojis" (top-down shooter) to "Aim Lab + roguelite items" (cursor is the protagonist, no movement, pure aim)
13  - Settled on "build = aim transformation" as the core thread (each item warps how aim feels — cursor magnetism, projectile inertia, multi-cursor, etc.)
14  - DPS-game scoring: deal enough damage in a given time, target score scales with time
15  - User said no choose-1-of-3 mechanic; alternatives discussed: open shop, slot loadout, achievement-gated unlocks
16  - Future plan mentioned: Artifact-style draft phase, mana-cost cards each round, passives row
17  
18  **Project setup:**
19  - Created `E:/a327ex/emoji-aimer/` with anchor framework copy, `anchor.exe`, `assets/`, `run.bat`
20  - Downloaded 512x512 Twitter emoji PNGs from emojipedia (`em-content.zobj.net/source/twitter/450/<slug>_<codepoint>.png` pattern, requires referer header): direct-hit, collision, sparkles, backhand-index-pointing-up, hourglass-done, high-voltage, fire
21  - Copied other assets from reference projects: `star.png`, `hit1.png` spritesheet (96x48 frames), `LanaPixel.ttf`, `FatPixelFont.ttf`, `Awesome 9.ttf`, digits `0.png`-`9.png`, `recolor.frag`
22  - Visual style ported from `emoji-ball-bounce/reference/main.lua`: 480x270 internal at scale 3, sky gradient bg, layer pipeline with shadow + outline shaders
23  
24  **Click-to-damage target with juice:**
25  - Single direct-hit emoji target at 3 HP, click-to-damage with `t:contains(mx, my)` radius check
26  - Inlined ports of `hit_circle`, `hit_particle`, `emoji_particle` classes from emoji-ball-bounce reference, adapted to v2 patterns (`make_entity` + procedural timer/spring fields, no `self:add(...)`)
27  - Hit feedback: spring squash on `'hit'` named spring, white flash for 80ms, hit_circle ring, 2 yellow hit_particles, 1 star emoji_particle, camera shake
28  - Death feedback: bigger ring, 8-12 hit_particles in yellow + orange, 8-12 collision emoji_particles, 4-8 sparkle emoji_particles, bigger shake
29  - Iterative tuning: removed sparkle/collision emojis, kept only stars, then later changed to direct_hit emoji particles for the spawn burst; made spring bouncier (frequency 5, bounce 0.75); made particles thicker via `w=14, h=8`
30  - Mouse position fix: hit/death effects spawn from click position (`mx, my`) instead of target center
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1    Title: Emoji Aimer 2
2   Date: 2026-05-10 14:09:58
3   
4   # Emoji Aimer 2
5   
6   ## Summary
7   
8   Major design + implementation pass on the emoji-aimer prototype: added the combo system, the physical resource pickup system with Box2D physics, the between-rounds shop, and converted the round goal from abstract score to per-round kill counts. Many iterations on visual feedback, drop probabilities, and combo's role.
9   
10  **Brainstorm — alternatives to build-heavy prototypes:**
11  - User wanted "feels-complete" prototypes that aren't card/deck-heavy. Discussed score/mastery loop (Devil Daggers), run arc (RoR1), random round modifiers, boss-rush, mechanic-exhaustion puzzle.
12  - For Emoji Aimer specifically: combo multiplier (recommendation), target archetypes, per-round modifier draft, boss round. Recommended 1 + 2 + 4 stack as the cheapest "feels deep" axis.
13  - User chose combo as the first system.
14  
15  **Combo display:**
16  - New `combo_display` class on cursor_layer (no camera attach, cursor-locked).
17  - Number in `fonts.mid` (Awesome 9 @ 16), slight rotation, drain bar below in HP-bar style.
18  - Position: `(mx + 16, my - 18)` — upper-right of fingertip.
19  - Springs on `main` (scale) and `r` (rotation). Count change: `spring_pull(0.2)` + random rotation kick.
20  - Drain bar: 16x2, radius 1, yellow fill, drains rightward.
21  - Iterations: rotation direction positive -> negative pi/16; position lower-right -> upper-right; bar 24x4 -> 16x2.
22  
23  **Combo color progression — heat ramp + medal escalation:**
24  - Final 9 tiers: white -> blue -> green -> yellow -> orange -> red -> bronze -> silver -> gold (combo thresholds 0/5/10/15/20/35/50/80/100).
25  - Bronze/silver/gold colors sampled from Twemoji medal disc-faces via Python+PIL: bronze = (248,136,56), silver = (200,208,216), gold = (248,168,48). Saved to `reference/medals/`.
26  
27  **Miss-X effect:**
28  - Spawned at click location on combo break via miss. At combo 0, no X.
29  - Used Twemoji cross_mark (U+274C), upscaled 72->256 with LANCZOS, gray-processed (all non-transparent -> (120,120,120)) for the existing recolor shader. Saved as `assets/x_mark.png`.
30  - Always red, 20px. Spring pop on spawn, visible 0.15s, blink 0.22s via `timer_during_step`, then self-kill.
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100  
101 **Misc tuning:**
102 - Drain bar: 24x4 -> 16x2.
103 - Rotation: +pi/16 -> -pi/16.
104 - Position: lower-right -> upper-right of fingertip.
105 - Gather emoji_particle: scale 0.5 -> 1.0, gravity 256 -> 0.
106 - Resource physics: gravity 256 -> 600, restitution 0.4 -> 0.65 -> 0.7.
107 - Pull range 70 -> 110, strength 700 -> 1000.
108 - "+value" popup: yellow -> blue.
109 - Drop tables: multiple iterations to fit 1-2-3 rule under 50%-max constraint.
110 
111 **Handover prompt for next instance:**
112 - Wrote self-contained prompt covering current game state, framework (Anchor 2), file paths, design philosophy (no build-heavy, 1-2-3 escalation, MOBA-shop style), pending tuning concerns, and explicit do-NOTs (no chains, no score variable, no deck-builder, no random shops).
113 - Flagged that the prompt's combo-damage description was outdated post-revert and provided an updated paragraph.
114 
115 ---
116 
117 > Brainstorm session. I have lots of prototypes I make where I never quite get them to a point where I can make them "build-heavy." I quite like games build-heavy, but it seems that for fast prototypes this goal is too much work. What are some other ways we might get prototypes that we can do in a few days but that also have a feeling of a full, complete game that someone could play for hours?
118 
119 Quick honest framing before the list: "build-heavy in 2 days" is probably the wrong target — what makes build-heavy games feel deep is combinatorial interaction between many pieces, and that's labor that can't be compressed. The better question is *which other axis can carry the "feels like a real game" load*. A few options:
120 
121 **1. Score/mastery loop (cheapest, highest hit rate)**
122 One mechanic, deep skill ceiling, escalating difficulty curve, personal-best chasing. Devil Daggers has 1 weapon and 1 enemy schedule and people played it for hundreds of hours. Tetris, Geometry Wars, Pac-Man CE. The "content" is the player's improving execution. Fits your style — emoji-ball-battles already has the physics feel that supports this. Tradeoff: needs a *really* good core feel, because there's nowhere to hide. If the loop isn't tight, the game is empty.
123 
124 **2. Run arc, not build arc**
125 The 20-minute run itself is the unit of completion: clear beginning, escalation, climax/boss, end. Variety comes from procedural enemy mix and stage progression, not from item builds. Risk of Rain 1 in its earliest form, original Spelunky, Nuclear Throne. The player doesn't need to *build* anything to feel a full session; they just need the arc to land. This is what I'd push you toward if you want something Orblike-shaped without item design overhead.
126 
127 **3. Random modifiers instead of builds**
128 Permanent build deck → one-shot random modifiers per run. Spelunky daily, RoR artifacts, Isaac challenges, FTL events. You get the *feeling* of variety without designing 80 items that interact. A few well-chosen modifiers ("enemies double, you double", "no walls", "swap mechanic X with mechanic Y") create combinatorial replay cheaply.
129 
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3900 > 
3901    > Use a lowercase hyphenated slug derived from the title (e.g., "anchor-primitives-hitstop-animation").
3902    > 
3903    > Get the start timestamp for the Date frontmatter:
3904    > 
3905    > ```bash
3906    > date "+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"
3907    > ```
3908    > 
3909    > (If the session has been running for hours, prefer the time the user actually started it — visible in the JSONL — over the current wall clock. The Date should mark when the work happened, not when end-session ran.)
3910    > 
3911    > Convert the transcript to markdown:
3912    > 
3913    > ```bash
3914    > python E:/a327ex/Anchor2/scripts/jsonl-to-markdown.py [SESSION_PATH] /tmp/session-log.md
3915    > # or: python E:/a327ex/Anchor/scripts/jsonl-to-markdown.py ...
3916    > ```
3917    > 
3918    > The same script **auto-detects** Claude Code JSONL vs Cursor/Composer agent JSONL (`~/.cursor/projects/.../agent-transcripts/...`) vs Codex rollouts (`~/.codex/sessions/...`). For Composer sessions, use `find-recent-session.py` (it merges all sources) and pick the `[cursor]` line for the current chat.
3919    > 
3920    > Replace the default header (`# Session YYYY-MM-DD...`) at the top of `/tmp/session-log.md` with the approved title and summary, AND prepend frontmatter. The final file shape:
3921    > 
3922    > ```markdown
3923    > Title: [Title]
3924    > Date: YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS
3925    > 
3926    > # [Title]
3927    > 
3928    > ## Summary
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111:**Handover prompt for next instance:**
112:- Wrote self-contained prompt covering current game state, framework (Anchor 2), file paths, design philosophy (no build-heavy, 1-2-3 escalation, MOBA-shop style), pending tuning concerns, and explicit do-NOTs (no chains, no score variable, no deck-builder, no random shops).
3593:> Remove any chain damage you've added. Then create me a prompt that I can paste to the next instance, describing the game as it is and our overall goal with it.
3633:Chains fully removed. Now the handover prompt:
3638:[Omitted long matching line]
3782:Note for the handover prompt: the version I gave you references combo damage scaling, which is no longer accurate. The relevant line should now read something like:
3786:Update that section before pasting if you want the next instance to start with current state.
3828:> This skill is invoked from the **same conversation** where the work was done. You already have the full session context in memory — you do NOT need to read the transcript.
4139:**Handover prompt for next instance:**
4140:- Wrote self-contained prompt covering current game state, framework (Anchor 2), file paths, design philosophy (no build-heavy, 1-2-3 escalation, MOBA-shop style), pending tuning concerns, and explicit do-NOTs (no chains, no score variable, no deck-builder, no random shops).

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3633 Chains fully removed. Now the handover prompt:
3634    
3635    ---
3636    
3637    ```
3638    You're working on Emoji Aimer, a click-to-shoot prototype at E:/a327ex/emoji-aimer/. Read the project-wide guidelines at E:/a327ex/CLAUDE.md and the Anchor 2 framework docs at E:/a327ex/Anchor2/docs/ (FRAMEWORK_API.md and FRAMEWORK_API_QUICK.md). The game runs on Anchor 2 — procedural Lua framework, except the `collider` class. Do NOT use Anchor 1 patterns (`an` god-object, object tree, action phases). The actual framework files used by the game live in E:/a327ex/emoji-aimer/anchor/ — grep there if a function isn't where the docs say.
3639    
3640    The game is a single file: E:/a327ex/emoji-aimer/main.lua (~1700 lines). Read it top to bottom before changing anything. Style: operator spacing `*` and `/` no spaces (`a*b`), `+` and `-` with spaces (`a + b`). Match the existing patterns in main.lua. Don't run or build — the user compiles and tests with run.bat.
3641    
3642    WHAT THE GAME IS:
3643    A 480x270 (scale 3) aim trainer with combo + resources + shop progression. Visual style: Twitter emoji palette, sky-blue gradient bg, chunky black outline shader, juicy springs/shake/particles everywhere. The cursor is a 👆 emoji that follows the mouse with sway/click/squash springs.
3644    
3645    CORE LOOP:
3646    - 5 rounds, each with a kill target (target_kills: 5 / 10 / 40 / 60 / 120) and 30s timer.
3647    - Click direct_hit emoji targets in the arena. They have 3 HP. Click damage = current combo tier's damage + items_owned bonus.
3648    - Each hit advances combo_count (combo decays after 1.5s of no hits). Combo has 9 tiers — white/blue/green (1 dmg) → yellow/orange (2 dmg) → red/bronze/silver/gold (3 dmg). Tier color tints the combo display near the cursor; high tiers shake the display on each new count.
3649    - Killing a target spawns physical resources (coin/gem/crown emojis as Box2D dynamic bodies). Per-tier drop chances & counts; gem unlocks at green (combo 10), crown at red (combo 35). Tier icons next to the combo number show what's currently dropping.
3650    - Resources fall under gravity, bounce off screen-edge walls, get pulled to the cursor when within range, collected when they touch the hand AABB hitbox. Adds gold (coin=1, gem=5, crown=25). Resources have a 0.6s arm delay before they can be pulled/collected.
3651    - Missing a click breaks combo and spawns a red X marker that blinks out.
3652    - When kills_this_round hits target_kills, round enters 'cleared' state: all targets vanish, all resources zoom to player at full pull strength regardless of distance, then advance to shop.
3653    - Shop sells one item ("+1 BASE DAMAGE") at 10 gold. Buy as many as you can afford, then click NEXT ROUND.
3654    - Beat round 5 → 'won'. Time runs out below target → 'lost'. R restarts.
3655    
3656    KEY SUBSYSTEMS in main.lua (read order):
3657    - Constants (palette, sizes, COMBO_WINDOW, RESOURCE_VALUES, pull/physics constants, hand AABB hitbox, ROUNDS, ITEM_COST/BONUS).
3658    - Layers + shaders (outline + recolor + shadow shaders, multi-layer pipeline; ui_panel/content layers get an outline pass for chunky text).
3659    - Image loads (digit_imgs map for damage_number, plus '+', plus emoji sprites).
3660    - Camera with handcam jitter (game_layer + effects_layer attached; UI/cursor layers are not).
3661    - Physics init: WORLD_GRAVITY = 600 down, four screen-edge wall colliders, 'resource' / 'wall' tags.
3662    - COMBO_TIERS table (9 entries): combo threshold, color, damage, shake_amp/dur, drops table.
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Now let me read the current state of main.lua and the UI mockup.

Bash (wc -l E:/a327ex/emoji-aimer/main.lua E:/a327ex/emoji-aimer/reference/ui_mockup.h...)

  1776 E:/a327ex/emoji-aimer/main.lua
   751 E:/a327ex/emoji-aimer/reference/ui_mockup.html
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1    --[[
2     Emoji Aimer — Anchor 2.
3   
4     Click-to-damage aim trainer scaffold. Single 3-HP target at center; click
5     within its radius to damage. On hit: spring squash, white flash, hit_circle
6     ring, hit_particles + sparkle emoji_particles, camera shake. On death: bigger
7     ring, more particles (collision + sparkle emojis), bigger shake. New target
8     respawns at center after a short delay.
9   
10    Visual style ported from emoji-ball-bounce (Twitter emoji palette, 480x270
11    at scale 3, sky gradient bg, layer pipeline with shadow + outline shaders).
12  ]]
13  
14  require('anchor')({
15    width  = 480,
16    height = 270,
17    title  = 'Emoji Aimer',
18    scale  = 3,
19    filter = 'rough',
20  })
21  
22  gw, gh = width, height
23  
24  -- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
25  -- palette (Twitter emoji / Emoji Ball Battles)
26  -- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
27  white      = color(255, 255, 255)
28  black      = color(0, 0, 0)
29  gray       = color(128, 128, 128)
30  bg_color   = color(48, 49, 50)
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450    self.rotation_speed = args.rotation_speed or random_float(-4*math.pi, 4*math.pi)
451   if self.angle_mode then self.rotation_speed = 0 end
452 
453   self.flashing = false
454   make_entity(self)
455   self.timer  = timer_new()
456   self.spring = spring_new()
457   spring_add(self.spring, 'main', 1)
458   timer_tween(self.timer, self.duration, self, { velocity = 0, scale = 0 },
459               math.linear, function() self:kill() end)
460 
461   if args.flash_on_spawn then
462     self.flashing = true
463     local f = type(args.flash_on_spawn) == 'number' and args.flash_on_spawn or 1
464     timer_after(self.timer, f * self.duration, function() self.flashing = false end)
465     spring_pull(self.spring, 'main', 0.3, 3, 0.7)
466   end
467 end
468 
469 function emoji_particle:update(dt)
470   timer_update(self.timer, dt)
471   spring_update(self.spring, dt)
472   self.gravity_velocity = self.gravity_velocity + self.gravity * dt
473   local vx = self.velocity * math.cos(self.direction)
474   local vy = self.velocity * math.sin(self.direction) + self.gravity_velocity
475   self.x = self.x + vx * dt
476   self.y = self.y + vy * dt
477   if self.angle_mode == 'forward' then
478     self.rotation = math.atan(vy, vx)
479   elseif self.angle_mode == 'backward' then
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900    local avg_y = array.average(self.previous_mouse_deltas_y) or 0
901   if dy == 0 and math.abs(avg_y) > 2 and time - self.last_sway_y_time >= 0.2 then
902     self.last_sway_y_time = time
903     self.mouse_dt_sy = math.clamp(math.remap(math.abs(avg_y), 0, 12, 1, 0.5), 0.5, 1)
904     timer_tween(self.timer,
905       math.remap(math.abs(avg_y), 0, 12, 0.1, 0.2),
906       'squash', self, { mouse_dt_sy = 1 }, math.cubic_in_out)
907   end
908 
909   -- Click press / release. Named 'click_scale' so press during a still-
910   -- running release tween replaces it cleanly (and vice versa).
911   if input_pressed('click') then
912     spring_pull(self.spring, 'main', 0.5)
913     timer_tween(self.timer, 0.05, 'click_scale', self,
914       { click_r = math.pi/16, click_sx = 0.9, click_sy = 0.7 },
915       math.cubic_in_out)
916   end
917   if input_released('click') then
918     spring_pull(self.spring, 'main', 0.25)
919     timer_tween(self.timer, 0.1, 'click_scale', self,
920       { click_r = 0, click_sx = 1, click_sy = 1 },
921       math.cubic_in_out)
922   end
923 end
924 
925 function cursor:draw()
926   -- Outer transform applies click-press squash and movement squash. Inner
927   -- transform applies rotation + uniform main-spring scale. The (+7, +9)
928   -- offset and -π/8 base rotation were calibrated in super-emoji-pop so the
929   -- emoji's fingertip lands at self.x, self.y.
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1350       return true
1351        end
1352      end
1353      return false
1354    end
1355    
1356    -- Ideal alive count ramps from MIN at round start to MAX at round end. Naive
1357    -- pacing — when alive_count < ideal, the spawn tick tries to spawn one. Final
1358    -- pacing will probably be card-driven; this is just a placeholder.
1359    function ideal_target_count()
1360      local total = ROUNDS[round_index].time
1361      local progress = math.clamp(1 - (round_timer / total), 0, 1)
1362      return math.floor(math.lerp(progress, TARGET_COUNT_MIN, TARGET_COUNT_MAX))
1363    end
1364    
1365    -- Count live (non-dead) targets in the targets array. collection_update
1366    -- compacts dead entries each frame, but mid-frame the array can hold _dead
1367    -- entries that haven't been removed yet — filter explicitly.
1368    function alive_target_count()
1369      local n = 0
1370      for _, t in ipairs(targets) do
1371        if not t._dead then n = n + 1 end
1372      end
1373      return n
1374    end
1375    
1376    -- True if any resource entity is still live in the effects array. Used to
1377    -- detect when the round-end vacuum is finished so we can advance to shop.
1378    -- `kind` is set by resource:new and nothing else, so it's a clean marker.
1379    function any_live_resource()
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Now let me check the UI mockup HTML and look at the layout reference images.

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1    <!doctype html>
2   <html lang="en">
3   <head>
4   <meta charset="utf-8">
5   <title>Emoji Aimer — UI Mockup</title>
6   <link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com">
7   <link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.gstatic.com" crossorigin>
8   <link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Press+Start+2P&family=Pixelify+Sans:wght@400;600&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">
9   <style>
10  /* ===========================================================================
11     CANONICAL PALETTE (matches main.lua exactly — these are the ground truth)
12     ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
13     Source-of-truth: emoji-aimer/main.lua palette block. Image-derived additions
14     noted with "* added".
15  =========================================================================== */
16  :root {
17    /* core neutrals */
18    --c-white:    #ffffff;             /* white                 (255, 255, 255) */
19    --c-black:    #000000;             /* black                 (  0,   0,   0) */
20    --c-gray:     #808080;             /* gray                  (128, 128, 128) */
21    --c-bg:       #303132;             /* bg_color  (dark bg)   ( 48,  49,  50) */
22    --c-fg:       #e7e8e9;             /* fg         (panel)    (231, 232, 233) */
23    --c-fg-dark:  #c9cacb;             /* fg_dark   (secondary) (201, 202, 203) */
24  
25    /* hue families (Twitter-emoji aligned) */
26    --c-yellow:   #fdcd56;             /* yellow                (253, 205,  86) */
27    --c-orange:   #f49200;             /* orange                (244, 146,   0) */
28    --c-red:      #df2540;             /* red                   (223,  37,  64) */
29    --c-blue:     #53afef;             /* blue                  ( 83, 175, 239) */
30    --c-green:    #7ab357;             /* green                 (122, 179,  87) */
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Now let me look at the layout reference images that were mentioned.

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Read both summaries plus the current main.lua, mockup HTML, and all 7 layout reference images. Quick recap of where things stand:

Current state:

  • Top-left HUD is just plain white text (ROUND, TIME, kills, gold).
  • Combo display floats next to cursor; cursor + targets + resources working.
  • Shop screen is a single placeholder item card centered with BUY/NEXT ROUND buttons.
  • 5-round loop, kills as the gate, gold from physical resource pickups.

What the layout references suggest:

  • Chunky chip-style panels with icon+number (hourglass timer, smiley HITS, lightning charge bar, PASSIVES row of small icons).
  • A bottom row of 5 hand-cards (in ui_layout_1/2).
  • Round progress sidebar (dots), score box, between-rounds reward/hand-management screens.
  • Deck/discard counters bottom-left.

The layout images go quite far toward card/deck/draft territory, which conflicts with the "no deck-builder, no random shops, MOBA-style flat shop" rails from the handover. Before I touch anything I want to make sure we're aligned on scope.

Let me load the question tool.

ToolSearch (select:AskUserQuestion)

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  {
    "type": "tool_reference",
    "tool_name": "AskUserQuestion"
  }
]

AskUserQuestion (Which HUD elements should the UI pass implement? (The layouts show several piece...)

User has answered your questions: "Which HUD elements should the UI pass implement? (The layouts show several pieces the game doesn't have yet — charge/mana bar, passives row, hand of cards, round-progress dots.)"="We'll go one by one.", "Are we pivoting away from the prior 'no deck-builder, no cards' direction set in session 2's handover?"="No — same rails". You can now continue with the user's answers in mind.

Got it — staying on the existing rails (flat MOBA-style shop, no cards/deck/draft). Layout images are aesthetic reference only; we'll borrow the chip-style chrome but skip the hand row, draft screens, deck builder, etc.

Starting with the first element: the timer chip in the top-left.

Design

A cream rounded panel with the hourglass icon on the left and MM:SS next to it, sized for the 480x270 internal. Roughly 50w × 16h. The chunky black border comes free from the existing ui_panel_outline pass; the icon and text get their own outline halos via ui_content_outline. Black text on cream so it reads.

I'll skip the small "ROUND TIMER" footer label that's in ui_layout_1 — at 480x270 the smallest registered font (LanaPixel @ 11) is too tall to make a clean footer. The hourglass icon does the labeling on its own.

The other top-left lines (ROUND, kills/target, gold) stay as plain white text below the chip for this turn. We'll convert them next, one at a time.

Proposed code

A new helper, placed right after the spawn helpers block:

-- =============================================================================
-- ui helpers
-- =============================================================================

-- HUD chip — cream rounded panel with icon + text. Drawn to the outlined UI
-- layers (panel rect on ui_panel_layer for the chunky black border, icon +
-- text on ui_content_layer for their own halos). Returns (w, h) so callers
-- can stack chips. Designed for the 480x270 internal — contents are tight.
function draw_hud_chip(x, y, icon_image, text_str, font_name)
  font_name      = font_name or 'big'
  local pad      = 3
  local icon_w   = 10
  local gap      = 3
  local font_h   = (font_name == 'big') and 8 or (font_name == 'main') and 11 or 16
  local txt_w    = font_get_text_width(font_name, text_str)
  local chip_w   = pad + icon_w + gap + txt_w + pad
  local chip_h   = pad + math.max(icon_w, font_h) + pad

  layer_rounded_rectangle(ui_panel_layer, x, y, chip_w, chip_h, 2, fg())

  local icon_s = icon_w / icon_image.width
  local cy     = y + pad + math.max(icon_w, font_h)/2
  layer_push(ui_content_layer, x + pad + icon_w/2, cy, 0, icon_s, icon_s)
  layer_image(ui_content_layer, icon_image, 0, 0)
  layer_pop(ui_content_layer)

  layer_text(ui_content_layer, text_str, fonts[font_name],
             x + pad + icon_w + gap, y + chip_h/2 - font_h/2, black())

  return chip_w, chip_h
end

And replace the existing top-left HUD block in draw() with:

local round = ROUNDS[round_index]
if game_state ~= 'shop' then
  local m  = math.floor(round_timer / 60)
  local s  = math.floor(round_timer - m*60)
  -- Timer chip — hourglass + countdown in a cream rounded panel. Other
  -- top-left lines stay as plain white text below for now; we'll convert
  -- them one at a time.
  local _, chip_h = draw_hud_chip(4, 4, hourglass_img, string.format('%02d:%02d', m, s))
  local y0 = 4 + chip_h + 4
  layer_text(ui_content_layer, 'ROUND ' .. round_index .. ' / ' .. #ROUNDS,
                                                                        fonts.main, 4, y0,      white())
  layer_text(ui_content_layer, kills_this_round .. ' / ' .. round.target_kills,
                                                                        fonts.main, 4, y0 + 12, white())
  local coin_icon_size = 9
  local coin_icon_s    = coin_icon_size/coin_img.width
  layer_push(ui_content_layer, 4 + coin_icon_size/2, y0 + 24 + 5, 0, coin_icon_s, coin_icon_s)
  layer_image(ui_content_layer, coin_img, 0, 0)
  layer_pop(ui_content_layer)
  layer_text(ui_content_layer, tostring(gold), fonts.main, 4 + coin_icon_size + 3, y0 + 24, white())
end

Two questions baked into this proposal that you might want to push back on:

  • Helper vs inline: I'm introducing draw_hud_chip because we'll have several chips (timer, kills, gold, combo) sharing the same shape. If you'd rather keep things inline until the third chip exists, I can inline this one instead.
  • Skipping the footer label: I'm dropping the "ROUND TIMER" sub-label from ui_layout_1. If you want the label, I'd need to register a smaller font (something in the 5-7px range) — happy to do that, just flagging the cost.

Does this look right?

Try it.

Adding the helper after the spawn helpers, then swapping the draw block.

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Done. Two changes:

  • New draw_hud_chip(x, y, icon_image, text_str, font_name) helper after roll_drops.
  • Top-left HUD now opens with the timer chip; ROUND/kills/gold lines pushed below it with a 4px gap.

Run it and let me know how the chip reads at scale 3 — particularly whether the FatPixelFont @ 8 countdown sits well against the cream panel, and whether the hourglass icon's outline halo looks clean or cluttered. From there we can move to the next chip (likely kills, since that's the round-clear gate the player watches most).

Keep using the same font, you changed it. Also text is black, should be white.

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Switched defaults: font is main (LanaPixel @ 11), text color is white() so the outline shader's black halo gives readable contrast on the cream panel. Try it.

More margin space on all sides, bigger icon button, text needs to be more centered vertically.

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Bumped padding 3→6, icon 10→14, gap 3→5 (chip is now ~26h instead of 16h), and added a +1 downward nudge on the text since LanaPixel's glyph mass sits high in its 11-px box. Try it and adjust the numbers if any axis still feels off.

Icon size is right, less margin overall on the button.

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Padding tightened from 6 to 3, gap from 5 to 4. Chip should be ~20h now instead of ~26h.

A bit more vertical margin.

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Split padding into pad_x = 3 and pad_y = 5 so the chip is taller without getting wider. Chip should now be ~24h while keeping the same horizontal footprint.

Great, now we want a similar button for kills and one for the amount of resources we have.

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Three chips now stacked top-left: timer, kills (direct_hit icon, 5 / 10), gold (coin icon). The plain ROUND 1 / 5 line still sits between the timer chip and the kills chip — we'll move it out / convert it whenever you want. Try it.

Remove round 1/5 from there, make spacing between icon and value the same as for the timer.

Let me peek at the icons so I can reason about visual padding.

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Looking at the icons: the hourglass has ~12% transparent padding on its left/right, but the bullseye and coin fill their bounding boxes edge-to-edge. At icon_w=14 that's ~2px of "free" visual gap on the timer chip that the kills/coin chips don't get. Two changes:

  1. Add an optional gap override to draw_hud_chip. Pass gap=6 for the kills and coin chips so their visible icon-to-text distance matches the timer's ~6px.
  2. Drop the ROUND text.

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ROUND text gone, kills + coin chips passing gap=6. Try it.

Let's have all UI elements take up an imaginary portion of the top of the screen and thus stack them horizontally instead of vertically. No targets can spawn near that section. Create a similar section at both top and bottom where no targets spawn and where we'll place all UI elements. Draw it crudely just so I can see where it is, it doesn't exist visually, just logically.

Three changes:

  1. Add HUD_TOP_H / HUD_BOTTOM_H constants and rewire ARENA_Y_MIN/ARENA_Y_MAX to them.
  2. Stack the chips horizontally inside the top strip.
  3. Draw both strips crudely on debug_layer (semi-transparent red) so they're visible during dev.

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Now the crude debug strips, queued onto debug_layer just before the memory tracker draws to it.

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Done. Three chips now sit horizontally inside the top 30px strip; targets spawn only between y=30 and y=240; both strips are tinted semi-transparent red so you can see them. Try it and tell me if 30/30 is the right strip height or if either side wants more room.

Add margin on both sides, increase horizontal spacing between elements.

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Side padding bumped 4→10 and inter-chip spacing 4→10. Try it.

Add top/bottom margins as well.

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Both strips bumped 30→40. The chips now have 8px above and 8px below them inside the top strip (strip_y auto-recomputes from HUD_TOP_H).

The size of the timer box seems to be changing based on the size of the text inside it, shouldn't happen.

The chip width is recomputed from font_get_text_width(text_str) every frame, so any per-glyph variance in LanaPixel makes it twitch as digits change. Fix: let callers pass a min_text_w override, and pass the worst-case width ('88:88') for the timer chip.

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Timer chip now uses '88:88' as the width baseline so it won't shift as digits tick. The same trick would stabilize the kills chip ('120 / 120' worst case) and gold chip (whatever cap you want), but I left those alone — say the word if you want them locked too.

Great, you can remove the visual for the HUD now. Make it so that the floor is on the bottom HUD and is actually visible now. A white wall the size of the bottom HUD.

Three changes:

  1. Remove the debug red strips.
  2. Reposition walls[2] so its top face sits at y = gh - HUD_BOTTOM_H instead of just below the screen.
  3. Draw a white rectangle on game_layer filling the bottom HUD strip — picks up the outline shader's halo for a clean black top edge that reads as the floor surface.

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Floor now lives at the top of the bottom HUD strip, rendered as a white rectangle with the outline shader giving it a black top edge. Resources will bounce off it 40px earlier than before. Debug strips removed.

The bottom wall's color should be the same as the button's background. Also, the wall should be bigger than currently on left right and bottom because of how the camera wobbles a bit. Targets should spawn with some margin bottom and top HUD lines.

Three changes:

  1. Floor color: white()fg() to match the chip backgrounds.
  2. Floor extends past the screen on left/right/bottom by FLOOR_BLEED = 10 so camera handcam doesn't expose the sky behind it.
  3. Add TARGET_HUD_MARGIN = 6 so target edges stay 6px clear of both HUD lines.

Edit (E:/a327ex/emoji-aimer/main.lua)

<tool_use_error>String to replace not found in file.
String: -- HUD strips reserved at the top and bottom of the screen. UI elements live
-- inside these strips and targets are forbidden from spawning there. Drawn
-- crudely on debug_layer right now so the zones are visible during dev.
HUD_TOP_H    = 30
HUD_BOTTOM_H = 30

-- Arena bounds for target spawning. The Y bounds use the HUD strips so
-- targets' top/bottom edges stop exactly at the strip boundary
-- (try_spawn_target adds TARGET_RADIUS internally).
ARENA_X_MIN = 20
ARENA_X_MAX = gw - 20
ARENA_Y_MIN = HUD_TOP_H
ARENA_Y_MAX = gh - HUD_BOTTOM_H</tool_use_error>

Read (E:/a327ex/emoji-aimer/main.lua)

144  -- HUD strips reserved at the top and bottom of the screen. UI elements live
145 -- inside these strips and targets are forbidden from spawning there. Drawn
146 -- crudely on debug_layer right now so the zones are visible during dev.
147 HUD_TOP_H    = 40
148 HUD_BOTTOM_H = 40
149 
150 -- Arena bounds for target spawning. The Y bounds use the HUD strips so
151 -- targets' top/bottom edges stop exactly at the strip boundary
152 -- (try_spawn_target adds TARGET_RADIUS internally).
153 ARENA_X_MIN = 20
154 ARENA_X_MAX = gw - 20
155 ARENA_Y_MIN = HUD_TOP_H
156 ARENA_Y_MAX = gh - HUD_BOTTOM_H
157 
158 -- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
159 -- input
160 -- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
161 bind('click',        'mouse:1')
162 bind('restart',      'key:r')
163 bind('toggle_mem',   'key:f3')
164 bind('baseline_mem', 'key:f4')
165 
166 -- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
167 -- layers
168 -- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Edit (E:/a327ex/emoji-aimer/main.lua)

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Done. Floor is now fg() cream, bleeds 10px past left/right/bottom edges, and targets keep a 6px gap from both HUD lines. Try it.

Draw bounding box over each resource and the walls.

Let me check the framework API for outline drawing.

Grep (^function (m.)?layer(rectangle|circle))

E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\layer.lua:116:function layer_rectangle_line(lyr, x, y, w, h, color, line_width)
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\layer.lua:120:function layer_circle_line(lyr, x, y, radius, color, line_width)
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\layer.lua:160:function layer_rectangle_gradient_h(lyr, x, y, w, h, color1, color2)
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\layer.lua:164:function layer_rectangle_gradient_v(lyr, x, y, w, h, color1, color2)

Two edits: parallel walls_aabb table when creating walls (so we have their dims for debug), and the debug viz block in draw().

Edit (E:/a327ex/emoji-aimer/main.lua)

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Edit (E:/a327ex/emoji-aimer/main.lua)

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Magenta wall AABBs and cyan resource AABBs now drawn on debug_layer with the camera attached. Try it.

I don't see it.

Let me verify the function signature.

Read (E:/a327ex/emoji-aimer/anchor/layer.lua)

110  end
111 
112 function layer_circle(lyr, x, y, radius, color)
113   eng.circle(lyr_handle(lyr), x, y, radius, color)
114 end
115 
116 function layer_rectangle_line(lyr, x, y, w, h, color, line_width)
117   eng.rectangle_line(lyr_handle(lyr), x, y, w, h, color, line_width or 1)
118 end
119 
120 function layer_circle_line(lyr, x, y, radius, color, line_width)
121   eng.circle_line(lyr_handle(lyr), x, y, radius, color, line_width or 1)
122 end
123 
124 function layer_line(lyr, x1, y1, x2, y2, width, color)
125   eng.line(lyr_handle(lyr), x1, y1, x2, y2, width, color)
126 end
127 
128 function layer_capsule(lyr, x1, y1, x2, y2, radius, color)
129   eng.capsule(lyr_handle(lyr), x1, y1, x2, y2, radius, color)
130 end
131 
132 function layer_capsule_line(lyr, x1, y1, x2, y2, radius, color, line_width)
133   eng.capsule_line(lyr_handle(lyr), x1, y1, x2, y2, radius, color, line_width or 1)
134 end
135 
136 function layer_triangle(lyr, x1, y1, x2, y2, x3, y3, color)
137   eng.triangle(lyr_handle(lyr), x1, y1, x2, y2, x3, y3, color)
138 end
139 

Grep (^function camera_(attach|detach))

E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\camera.lua:153:function camera_attach(c, layer, parallax_x, parallax_y)
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\camera.lua-154-  parallax_x = parallax_x or 1
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\camera.lua-155-  parallax_y = parallax_y or 1
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\camera.lua-156-  local ox, oy, r_off, z_off = camera_get_effects(c)
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\camera.lua-157-  local cx = c.x*parallax_x + ox
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\camera.lua-158-  local cy = c.y*parallax_y + oy
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\camera.lua-159-  local rot = c.rotation + r_off
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\camera.lua-160-  local zoom = c.zoom*(1 + z_off)
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\camera.lua-161-
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\camera.lua-162-  layer_push(layer, c.w/2, c.h/2, rot, zoom, zoom)
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\camera.lua-163-  layer_push(layer, -cx, -cy, 0, 1, 1)
--
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\camera.lua:170:function camera_detach(c, layer)
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\camera.lua-171-  layer_pop(layer)
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\camera.lua-172-  layer_pop(layer)
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\camera.lua-173-end
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\camera.lua-174-
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\camera.lua-175---[[
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\camera.lua-176-  camera_update(c, dt)
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\camera.lua-177-  Advances follow, bounds, mouse resolution, and shake.
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\camera.lua-178-  Call once per frame per camera.
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\camera.lua-179-]]
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\camera.lua-180-function camera_update(c, dt)

Grep (^function layer_render)

E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\layer.lua:252:function layer_render(lyr)
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\layer.lua-253-  eng.render(lyr_handle(lyr))
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\layer.lua-254-end
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\layer.lua-255-
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\layer.lua-256-function layer_draw_from(lyr, source, shader)
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\layer.lua-257-  eng.draw_from(lyr_handle(lyr), lyr_handle(source), shader)
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\layer.lua-258-end
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\layer.lua-259-
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\layer.lua-260-function layer_stencil_mask(lyr)
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\layer.lua-261-  eng.stencil_mask(lyr_handle(lyr))
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\layer.lua-262-end
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\layer.lua-263-
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\layer.lua-264-function layer_stencil_test(lyr)
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\layer.lua-265-  eng.stencil_test(lyr_handle(lyr))
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\layer.lua-266-end
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\layer.lua-267-

Grep (layer_rectangle_line)

E:\a327ex\Anchor-YueScript\docs\ENGINE_API_QUICK.md:10:layer_rectangle_line(layer, x, y, w, h, color, line_width?)
E:\a327ex\Anchor-YueScript\docs\ENGINE_API.md:40:### layer_rectangle_line
E:\a327ex\Anchor-YueScript\docs\ENGINE_API.md:42:`layer_rectangle_line(layer, x, y, w, h, color, line_width?)`
E:\a327ex\Anchor-YueScript\docs\ENGINE_API.md:47:layer_rectangle_line(layer, 100, 100, 50, 30, rgba(255, 0, 0))
E:\a327ex\Anchor-YueScript\docs\ENGINE_API.md:48:layer_rectangle_line(layer, 100, 100, 50, 30, rgba(255, 0, 0), 2)  -- 2px outline
E:\a327ex\Anchor-YueScript\engine\src\anchor.c:4470:// layer_rectangle_line(layer, x, y, w, h, color, line_width?) -- rectangle outline
E:\a327ex\Anchor-YueScript\engine\src\anchor.c:4471:static int l_layer_rectangle_line(lua_State* L) {
E:\a327ex\Anchor-YueScript\engine\src\anchor.c:8241:    lua_register(L, "layer_rectangle_line", l_layer_rectangle_line);
E:\a327ex\Anchor-lua\docs\ENGINE_API_QUICK.md:10:layer_rectangle_line(layer, x, y, w, h, color, line_width?)
E:\a327ex\Anchor-lua\docs\ENGINE_API.md:40:### layer_rectangle_line

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Grep (^function memory_tracker_draw)

E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\memory.lua:160:function memory_tracker_draw(t, layer, font)
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\memory.lua-161-  if not t.shown or not t.current then return end
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\memory.lua-162-
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\memory.lua-163-  local pad = 4
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\memory.lua-164-  local line_h = (font.height or 11) + 1
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\memory.lua-165-  local col_label_w = 90   -- label column width
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\memory.lua-166-  local col_value_w = 70   -- value column width
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\memory.lua-167-  local row_count = #rows + 2  -- +2 for header lines
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\memory.lua-168-
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\memory.lua-169-  -- Background panel
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\memory.lua-170-  local panel_w = col_label_w + col_value_w + 80 + pad*2

Grep (^function camera_new)

E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\camera.lua:44:function camera_new(w, h)
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\camera.lua-45-  local cw = w or width or 480
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\camera.lua-46-  local ch = h or height or 270
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\camera.lua-47-  local c = {
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\camera.lua-48-    w = cw,
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\camera.lua-49-    h = ch,
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\camera.lua-50-    x = cw/2,
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\camera.lua-51-    y = ch/2,
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\camera.lua-52-    rotation = 0,
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\camera.lua-53-    zoom = 1,
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\camera.lua-54-    mouse = {x = 0, y = 0},
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\camera.lua-55-    follow_target = nil,
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\camera.lua-56-    follow_target_id = nil,
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\camera.lua-57-    follow_lerp = 0.9,
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\camera.lua-58-    follow_lerp_time = 0.5,
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\camera.lua-59-    follow_lead = 0,

Grep (^function camera_get_effects)

E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\camera.lua:105:function camera_get_effects(c)
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\camera.lua-106-  return shake_get_effects(c.shake)
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\camera.lua-107-end
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\camera.lua-108-
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\camera.lua-109---[[
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\camera.lua-110-  camera_to_world(c, sx, sy)
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\camera.lua-111-  Convert screen coordinates to world coordinates.
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\camera.lua-112-]]
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\camera.lua-113-function camera_to_world(c, sx, sy)
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\camera.lua-114-  local ox, oy, r_off, z_off = camera_get_effects(c)
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\camera.lua-115-  local cx = c.x + ox
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\camera.lua-116-  local cy = c.y + oy
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\camera.lua-117-  local rot = c.rotation + r_off
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\camera.lua-118-  local zoom = c.zoom*(1 + z_off)
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\camera.lua-119-
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\camera.lua-120-  local x = sx - c.w/2
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\camera.lua-121-  local y = sy - c.h/2
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\camera.lua-122-  x = x/zoom
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\camera.lua-123-  y = y/zoom
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\camera.lua-124-  local cos_r = math.cos(-rot)
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\camera.lua-125-  local sin_r = math.sin(-rot)

Two probable issues: line width 1 is hard to see, and the wall AABBs sit exactly on the floor outline / screen edges. Bumping to width 2 with brighter colors should make them obvious.

Edit (E:/a327ex/emoji-aimer/main.lua)

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Bumped line width 1→2, switched to red() and green() (existing palette globals). Try again — kill some targets so resources spawn so you can see the green ones too.

Bounding box should match the object. First should be a circle, second a polygon the shape of the diamond, third a rectangle the shape of the crown (dismissing the pointy tops a bit). All of the should rotate (set fixed rotation false) and the rotation they're drawn at should be the body's angle.

Let me check the collider API for polygons.

Grep (^function .*[Cc]ollider:|^function collider(|set_fixed_rotation)

E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\collider.lua:35:function collider:new(owner, tag, body_type, shape_type, ...)
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\collider.lua:73:function collider:destroy()
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\collider.lua:85:function collider:sync()
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\collider.lua:92:function collider:get_position() return physics_get_position(self.body) end
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\collider.lua:93:function collider:set_position(x, y) physics_set_position(self.body, x, y) end
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\collider.lua:94:function collider:get_angle() return physics_get_angle(self.body) end
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\collider.lua:95:function collider:set_angle(angle) physics_set_angle(self.body, angle) end
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\collider.lua:98:function collider:get_velocity() return physics_get_velocity(self.body) end
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\collider.lua:99:function collider:set_velocity(vx, vy) physics_set_velocity(self.body, vx, vy) end
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\collider.lua:100:function collider:get_angular_velocity() return physics_get_angular_velocity(self.body) end
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\collider.lua:101:function collider:set_angular_velocity(av) physics_set_angular_velocity(self.body, av) end
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\collider.lua:104:function collider:apply_force(fx, fy) physics_apply_force(self.body, fx, fy) end
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\collider.lua:105:function collider:apply_force_at(fx, fy, px, py) physics_apply_force_at(self.body, fx, fy, px, py) end
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\collider.lua:106:function collider:apply_impulse(ix, iy) physics_apply_impulse(self.body, ix, iy) end
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\collider.lua:107:function collider:apply_impulse_at(ix, iy, px, py) physics_apply_impulse_at(self.body, ix, iy, px, py) end
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\collider.lua:108:function collider:apply_torque(torque) physics_apply_torque(self.body, torque) end
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\collider.lua:109:function collider:apply_angular_impulse(impulse) physics_apply_angular_impulse(self.body, impulse) end
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\collider.lua:112:function collider:set_linear_damping(damping) physics_set_linear_damping(self.body, damping) end
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\collider.lua:113:function collider:set_angular_damping(damping) physics_set_angular_damping(self.body, damping) end
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\collider.lua:114:function collider:set_gravity_scale(scale) physics_set_gravity_scale(self.body, scale) end
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\collider.lua:115:function collider:set_fixed_rotation(fixed) physics_set_fixed_rotation(self.body, fixed) end
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\collider.lua:116:function collider:set_bullet(bullet) physics_set_bullet(self.body, bullet) end
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\collider.lua:119:function collider:set_friction(friction, shape) physics_shape_set_friction(shape or self.shape, friction) end
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\collider.lua:120:function collider:get_friction(shape) return physics_shape_get_friction(shape or self.shape) end
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\collider.lua:121:function collider:set_restitution(restitution, shape) physics_shape_set_restitution(shape or self.shape, restitution) end
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\collider.lua:122:function collider:get_restitution(shape) return physics_shape_get_restitution(shape or self.shape) end
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\collider.lua:123:function collider:set_density(density, shape) physics_shape_set_density(shape or self.shape, density) end
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\collider.lua:124:function collider:get_density(shape) return physics_shape_get_density(shape or self.shape) end
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\collider.lua:125:function collider:set_filter_group(group, shape) physics_shape_set_filter_group(shape or self.shape, group) end
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\collider.lua:126:function collider:destroy_shape(shape, update_mass)
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Read (E:/a327ex/emoji-aimer/anchor/collider.lua)

35   function collider:new(owner, tag, body_type, shape_type, ...)
36    self.owner = owner
37    self.tag = tag
38    self.body_type = body_type
39    self.shape_type = shape_type
40    self.body = physics_create_body(body_type, 0, 0)
41  
42    -- Set user_data to the owner's ID so physics queries resolve via entities[id]
43    if owner and owner.id then
44      physics_set_user_data(self.body, owner.id)
45    end
46  
47    -- Add initial shape based on shape_type
48    -- Last arg can be an opts table (e.g. {sensor = true})
49    local shape_args = {...}
50    if shape_type == 'chain' then
51      self.chain = physics_add_chain(self.body, tag, shape_args[1], shape_args[2] or true)
52    else
53      local opts = {}
54      if type(shape_args[#shape_args]) == 'table' then
55        opts = table.remove(shape_args)
56      end
57      if shape_type == 'circle' then
58        self.shape = physics_add_circle(self.body, tag, shape_args[1], opts)
59      elseif shape_type == 'box' then
60        self.shape = physics_add_box(self.body, tag, shape_args[1], shape_args[2], opts)
61      elseif shape_type == 'capsule' then
62        self.shape = physics_add_capsule(self.body, tag, shape_args[1], shape_args[2], opts)
63      elseif shape_type == 'polygon' then
64        self.shape = physics_add_polygon(self.body, tag, shape_args[1], opts)
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Grep (^function physics_add_polygon)

No matches found

Grep (physics_add_polygon|add_polygon)

E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\collider.lua:64:      self.shape = physics_add_polygon(self.body, tag, shape_args[1], opts)
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\collider.lua:141:function collider:add_polygon(tag, vertices, opts)
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\collider.lua:142:  return physics_add_polygon(self.body, tag, vertices, opts or {})

Grep (physics_add_polygon)

E:\a327ex\Anchor2\docs\ENGINE_API.md:1033:### physics_add_polygon
E:\a327ex\Anchor2\docs\ENGINE_API.md-1034-
E:\a327ex\Anchor2\docs\ENGINE_API.md:1035:`physics_add_polygon(body, tag, vertices, opts?) -> shape`
E:\a327ex\Anchor2\docs\ENGINE_API.md-1036-
E:\a327ex\Anchor2\docs\ENGINE_API.md-1037-Adds a convex polygon shape. Vertices: {x1, y1, x2, y2, ...}.
E:\a327ex\Anchor2\docs\ENGINE_API.md-1038-
E:\a327ex\Anchor2\docs\ENGINE_API.md-1039-```lua
E:\a327ex\Anchor2\docs\ENGINE_API.md:1040:local shape = physics_add_polygon(body, "wall", {0, 0, 50, 0, 25, 40})
E:\a327ex\Anchor2\docs\ENGINE_API.md-1041-```
E:\a327ex\Anchor2\docs\ENGINE_API.md-1042-
E:\a327ex\Anchor2\docs\ENGINE_API.md-1043----
E:\a327ex\Anchor2\docs\ENGINE_API.md-1044-
E:\a327ex\Anchor2\docs\ENGINE_API.md-1045-## Physics: Body Properties
E:\a327ex\Anchor2\docs\ENGINE_API.md-1046-
E:\a327ex\Anchor2\docs\ENGINE_API.md-1047-### physics_set_position
E:\a327ex\Anchor2\docs\ENGINE_API.md-1048-
E:\a327ex\Anchor2\docs\ENGINE_API.md-1049-`physics_set_position(body, x, y)`
E:\a327ex\Anchor2\docs\ENGINE_API.md-1050-
E:\a327ex\Anchor2\docs\ENGINE_API.md-1051-Teleports a body to a position.
E:\a327ex\Anchor2\docs\ENGINE_API.md-1052-
E:\a327ex\Anchor2\docs\ENGINE_API.md-1053-```lua
E:\a327ex\Anchor2\docs\ENGINE_API.md-1054-physics_set_position(player_body, spawn_x, spawn_y)
E:\a327ex\Anchor2\docs\ENGINE_API.md-1055-```
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E:\a327ex\Anchor2\docs\ENGINE_API_QUICK.md:136:physics_add_polygon(body, tag, vertices, opts?) -> shape
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E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\layer.lua:144:function layer_polygon(lyr, vertices, color)
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\layer.lua:148:function layer_polygon_line(lyr, vertices, color, line_width)

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140  function layer_triangle_line(lyr, x1, y1, x2, y2, x3, y3, color, line_width)
141   eng.triangle_line(lyr_handle(lyr), x1, y1, x2, y2, x3, y3, color, line_width or 1)
142 end
143 
144 function layer_polygon(lyr, vertices, color)
145   eng.polygon(lyr_handle(lyr), vertices, color)
146 end
147 
148 function layer_polygon_line(lyr, vertices, color, line_width)
149   eng.polygon_line(lyr_handle(lyr), vertices, color, line_width or 1)
150 end
151 
152 function layer_rounded_rectangle(lyr, x, y, w, h, radius, color)
153   eng.rounded_rectangle(lyr_handle(lyr), x, y, w, h, radius, color)
154 end
155 
156 function layer_rounded_rectangle_line(lyr, x, y, w, h, radius, color, line_width)
157   eng.rounded_rectangle_line(lyr_handle(lyr), x, y, w, h, radius, color, line_width or 1)
158 end
159 

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[
  {
    "type": "image",
    "note": "[image stored privately: vault/media/emoji-aimer-3/011.png]"
  }
]

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[
  {
    "type": "image",
    "note": "[image stored privately: vault/media/emoji-aimer-3/012.png]"
  }
]

Three edits: define per-kind collider shapes, swap the collider creation in resource:new, and update the debug viz to draw the matching shape rotated by fx.rotation.

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Done. Coins are circles, gems are 4-vertex diamond polygons, crowns are 14×9 boxes (skipping the spikes), all with rotation enabled and the debug viz drawn at the body's current angle. Try it.

ERROR: anchor/collider.lua:64: bad argument #3 to 'physics_add_polygon' (table expected, got nil) stack traceback: [C]: in function 'physics_add_polygon' anchor/collider.lua:64: in field 'new' anchor/class.lua:28: in global 'collider' main.lua:1192: in field 'new' anchor/class.lua:28: in global 'resource' main.lua:1345: in function 'spawn_resource' main.lua:1360: in function 'roll_drops' main.lua:818: in method 'die' main.lua:786: in method 'hit' main.lua:1624: in function 'update'

When creating a diamond I assume

Right — the collider constructor pops the last table arg as opts, but for polygon the vertices table itself is the last (and only) shape arg. Pass an explicit empty opts table to disambiguate.

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Try again — gems should spawn cleanly now.

The vertices for the diamond seem to be a small square instead of the diamond shape itself.

Right — {0, -6, 6, 0, 0, 6, -6, 0} is geometrically a square (equilateral, four right angles) just rotated 45°, so when it lands flat at any orientation it reads as a square outline. To make it read as a diamond (kite/rhombus with a pointier bottom and wider middle), make it asymmetric in width vs height.

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New diamond is 14w × 11h with a short top (y=-4), wider mid-shoulders at ±7, and a long pointy bottom (y=+7). Try it.

Needs to be moved like 1 pixel up and the top needs to be 2 pixels taller.

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By the top being taller I mean the whole top.

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Whole shape shifted up 1 (y -= 1 on all four), then the top apex extended another 2 (y=-7 instead of y=-5). Top half is now 6 tall vs 7 tall on the bottom — flatter top, pointier bottom, sitting slightly higher overall.

Slightly bigger overall size for both resources so far. Coin and diamond. Then give me a key to toggle debug draw.

Three things: bump coin and diamond ~15%, add F2 to toggle the debug draw, default on.

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Coin radius 6→7, gem polygon scaled ~14% (top -7→-8, sides ±7→±8, bottom 6→7). F2 toggles the AABB overlay, default on.

Bigger size on both

Bumping both visual size and collider — visual was unchanged before, that's why it didn't read as bigger.

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Coin and gem visuals 13→17, colliders bumped to match (coin radius 7→9, gem polygon ~25% bigger). Crown untouched. Try it.

Look at the diamond image and try to match the shape to it. Your current is still a rectangle ultimately. A polygon has 2 sides on the base, then 2 more smaller sides, then another at the top. It's 5 sides.

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A diamond I mean

Right — 5-sided gem with a flat top, widest point above center, pointy bottom.

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5-vertex gem now: flat top from (-5,-8) to (5,-8), widest at (±9, -3), bottom point at (0, 9). Try it.

Now it's right, but it seems like you've scaled the visuals for each resource up? Go back to the previous size in terms of visuals, the polygon shape is fine.

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Visuals reverted to coin=13 / gem=13 / crown=16. Polygon and circle colliders unchanged.

The side vertices for the diamond should be 1px further away from the center.

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Side vertices pushed out from ±9 to ±10.

Crown should be taller towards the side of the base by a bunch of pixels.

Bumping box height by ~6px. If you want the actual crown silhouette (tall outer spikes, shorter middle), say so and I'll convert to a polygon — though Box2D requires convex, so the spikes would have to live in their convex hull rather than dipping down between them.

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Crown box height 9→15. Try it.

Should also be bigger by a bit on the sides.

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Crown width 14→16.

Give me a key to spawn a crown also.

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C spawns a crown at the cursor position. Note it uses the same initial-pop velocity as a kill drop, so it'll fly up and outward before falling.

2 more on sides, move collider 2 pixels up.

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E:\a327ex\Anchor2\docs\ENGINE_API_QUICK.md:134:physics_add_box(body, tag, width, height, opts?) -> shape
E:\a327ex\Anchor2\docs\ENGINE_API_QUICK.md-135-physics_add_capsule(body, tag, length, radius, opts?) -> shape
E:\a327ex\Anchor2\docs\ENGINE_API_QUICK.md-136-physics_add_polygon(body, tag, vertices, opts?) -> shape
E:\a327ex\Anchor2\docs\ENGINE_API_QUICK.md-137-```
E:\a327ex\Anchor2\docs\ENGINE_API_QUICK.md-138-
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E:\a327ex\Anchor2\docs\ENGINE_API_QUICK.md-140-
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E:\a327ex\Anchor2\docs\ENGINE_API_QUICK.md-142-physics_set_position(body, x, y)
E:\a327ex\Anchor2\docs\ENGINE_API_QUICK.md-143-physics_set_angle(body, angle)
E:\a327ex\Anchor2\docs\ENGINE_API_QUICK.md-144-physics_set_transform(body, x, y, angle)
E:\a327ex\Anchor2\docs\ENGINE_API_QUICK.md-145-physics_get_velocity(body) -> vx, vy
E:\a327ex\Anchor2\docs\ENGINE_API_QUICK.md-146-physics_get_angular_velocity(body) -> av
E:\a327ex\Anchor2\docs\ENGINE_API_QUICK.md-147-physics_set_velocity(body, vx, vy)
E:\a327ex\Anchor2\docs\ENGINE_API_QUICK.md-148-physics_set_angular_velocity(body, av)
E:\a327ex\Anchor2\docs\ENGINE_API_QUICK.md-149-physics_apply_force(body, fx, fy)
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E:\a327ex\Anchor2\docs\ENGINE_API.md:1012:### physics_add_box
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E:\a327ex\Anchor2\docs\ENGINE_API.md:1014:`physics_add_box(body, tag, width, height, opts?) -> shape`
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Two edits: bump crown width 16→18 and add offset_y = -2, then thread the offset through both collider creation and the debug viz.

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String:       elseif cd.shape == 'box' then
        layer_push(debug_layer, fx.x, fx.y, fx.rotation, 1, 1)
        layer_rectangle_line(debug_layer, -cd.w/2, -cd.h/2, cd.w, cd.h, green(), 2)
        layer_pop(debug_layer)
      end</tool_use_error>

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1202:  elseif cd.shape == 'box' then
1203-    self.collider = collider(self, 'resource', 'dynamic', 'box', cd.w, cd.h,
1204-                             { offset_x = cd.offset_x or 0, offset_y = cd.offset_y or 0 })
1205-  end
1206-  self.collider:set_position(x, y)
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1903:        elseif cd.shape == 'box' then
1904-          layer_push(debug_layer, fx.x, fx.y, fx.rotation, 1, 1)
1905-          layer_rectangle_line(debug_layer, -cd.w/2, -cd.h/2, cd.w, cd.h, green(), 2)
1906-          layer_pop(debug_layer)
1907-        end

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Crown is now 18×15 with the box shifted up by 2 inside the body. The debug viz reflects the offset.

4 pixels down offset

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Crown offset_y now +4 (down).

2 down, increase overall size by 2

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Crown now 20×17 with offset_y=2.

Give me a key to spawn coins and diamonds too

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155  
156 -- HUD strips reserved at the top and bottom of the screen. UI elements live
157 -- inside these strips and targets are forbidden from spawning there.
158 HUD_TOP_H    = 40
159 HUD_BOTTOM_H = 40
160 
161 -- Extra px the floor rect overflows on left/right/bottom of the screen so
162 -- the camera handcam (±2px translation + ±0.02 rad rotation) can never
163 -- expose the sky gradient behind it.
164 FLOOR_BLEED  = 10
165 
166 -- Buffer between target edges and the HUD strip lines.
167 TARGET_HUD_MARGIN = 6
168 
169 -- Arena bounds for target spawning. try_spawn_target adds TARGET_RADIUS
170 -- internally so target edges stop at these values.
171 ARENA_X_MIN = 20
172 ARENA_X_MAX = gw - 20
173 ARENA_Y_MIN = HUD_TOP_H + TARGET_HUD_MARGIN
174 ARENA_Y_MAX = gh - HUD_BOTTOM_H - TARGET_HUD_MARGIN

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184:bind('spawn_crown',  'key:c')
1580:  if input_pressed('spawn_crown')  then

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178  -- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
179 bind('click',        'mouse:1')
180 bind('restart',      'key:r')
181 bind('toggle_debug', 'key:f2')
182 bind('toggle_mem',   'key:f3')
183 bind('baseline_mem', 'key:f4')
184 bind('spawn_crown',  'key:c')
185 
186 -- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
187 -- layers
188 -- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
189 bg_layer            = layer_new('bg')

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1576   if input_pressed('restart') then run_reset() end
1577    
1578      -- Debug + memory tracker controls — work in any state.
1579      if input_pressed('toggle_debug') then debug_draw_visible = not debug_draw_visible end
1580      if input_pressed('toggle_mem')   then memory_tracker_toggle(mem_tracker) end
1581      if input_pressed('baseline_mem') then memory_tracker_capture_baseline(mem_tracker) end
1582      if input_pressed('spawn_crown')  then
1583        local mx, my = mouse_position()
1584        spawn_resource(mx, my, 'crown')
1585      end

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Z = coin, X = gem, C = crown.

Okay, now let's rework the transition from match end to shop. When the round ends, it pauses, then a yellow circle appears on mouse position and starts expanding until it covers the whole screen. Then the screen in the background changes from the paused round to shop, then the circle disappears slowly back down, this time focused on the middle of the screen as the target position.

Big design recap before I touch code:

State machine:

  • game_state stays 'playing' / 'cleared' / 'shop' / 'won' / 'lost' as today.
  • New transition_phase: nil / 'pause' / 'circle_in' / 'circle_out'.

Trigger (when kills hit target):

  • game_state = 'cleared', transition_phase = 'pause', kill all targets, auto-credit any live resources to gold and kill them (no more vacuum animation).

Phases:

  • pause (0.3s): nothing happens visually.
  • circle_in (0.4s): yellow circle expands from cursor position to screen-covering radius.
  • At in→out boundary: advance_round() swaps the background from cleared playing-view to shop view.
  • circle_out (0.5s): circle shrinks from center back to 0.

Removals:

  • Old if game_state == 'cleared' and not any_live_resource() then advance_round() end — replaced by the timer-driven transition.
  • Resource vacuum behavior is now dead code paths (game_state still becomes 'cleared' but no resources remain to vacuum).

Click gating: shop clicks ignored while transition_phase ~= nil.

Implementing.

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145:BASE_DAMAGE = 1
146-ITEM_COST   = 10
147-ITEM_BONUS  = 1

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140  
141 -- Damage economy. Click damage = BASE_DAMAGE + items_owned * ITEM_BONUS.
142 -- Combo no longer affects damage — items are the only damage modifier, so
143 -- kill-speed progression comes entirely from the shop. ITEM_COST is the
144 -- gold price per shop visit.
145 BASE_DAMAGE = 1
146 ITEM_COST   = 10
147 ITEM_BONUS  = 1
148 
149 -- Round / arena
150 TARGETS_INITIAL       = 6       -- targets spawned at round start
151 TARGET_SPAWN_TICK     = 0.25    -- how often to consider spawning a target
152 TARGET_MIN_SPAWN_DIST = TARGET_RADIUS*4  -- min distance between target centers when spawning
153 TARGET_COUNT_MIN      = 6       -- ideal alive count at round start
154 TARGET_COUNT_MAX      = 12      -- ideal alive count at round end (ramps up over time)

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Now state variables:

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337:combo_count       = 0
338-combo_timer       = 0
339-
340--- Run-persistent meta. gold accumulates from collected resources and is
341--- spent in the shop between rounds. items_owned bumps the click-damage
342--- base by ITEM_BONUS each. Both reset only via run_reset, not start_round.

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Now the helper, the trigger replacement, the transition update, and removing the old auto-advance.

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1491:function any_live_resource()
1492-  for _, fx in ipairs(effects) do
1493-    if not fx._dead and fx.kind then return true end
1494-  end
1495-  return false
1496-end
1497-
1498-
1499--- start_round(idx) — clean slate for round idx. Kills any in-flight targets

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Now the update logic — find the trigger block and the auto-advance block:

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1634:  -- 'playing' → 'cleared' when kill count hits the target. Targets get
1635-  -- cleared immediately (round is won, they're irrelevant), and resources
1636-  -- enter vacuum mode (see resource:update). When the last resource is
1637-  -- gone we auto-advance into the shop (further down).
1638-  if game_state == 'playing' and kills_this_round >= ROUNDS[round_index].target_kills then
1639-    game_state = 'cleared'
--
1645:  if game_state == 'cleared' and not any_live_resource() then
1646-    advance_round()
1647-  end
1648-
1649-  -- Timer ticks only in 'playing'. Once 'cleared', the timer freezes — you
1650-  -- can't lose anymore, and you can keep clicking targets for fun while

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1632   end
1633    
1634      -- 'playing' → 'cleared' when kill count hits the target. Targets get
1635      -- cleared immediately (round is won, they're irrelevant), and resources
1636      -- enter vacuum mode (see resource:update). When the last resource is
1637      -- gone we auto-advance into the shop (further down).
1638      if game_state == 'playing' and kills_this_round >= ROUNDS[round_index].target_kills then
1639        game_state = 'cleared'
1640        for _, t in ipairs(targets) do if not t._dead then entity_kill(t) end end
1641      end
1642    
1643      -- All resources collected during the cleared vacuum → advance to shop
1644      -- (or 'won' if this was round 5).
1645      if game_state == 'cleared' and not any_live_resource() then
1646        advance_round()
1647      end
1648    
1649      -- Timer ticks only in 'playing'. Once 'cleared', the timer freezes — you
1650      -- can't lose anymore, and you can keep clicking targets for fun while
1651      -- you decide to advance.
1652      if game_state == 'playing' then
1653        round_timer = round_timer - dt
1654        if round_timer <= 0 then
1655          round_timer = 0
1656          game_state  = 'lost'
1657        end
1658      end
1659    
1660      -- Spawn tick + clicks: 'playing' only. In 'cleared' we want a quiet
1661      -- vacuum phase — no new targets, no shooting — until the resources are

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Now gate shop clicks on not transition_phase:

Grep (if game_state == 'shop' and input_pressed('click'))

1708:  if game_state == 'shop' and input_pressed('click') then

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Now draw the circle. It should go on overlay_layer, after the shop overlay block and before the cursor draws:

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1872-               SHOP_NEXT_BTN_Y + (SHOP_NEXT_BTN_H - 11)/2, black())
1873-  end
1874-
1875:  the_cursor:draw()

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Done. Recap:

  • Round ends → 0.3s pause → yellow circle expands from cursor over 0.4s → bg swaps cleared→shop at the in-out boundary → circle shrinks from center over 0.5s → done.
  • Resources are auto-credited to gold at round end (no more vacuum animation).
  • Shop clicks gated until transition_phase == nil.

Try it.

The circle needs to be drawn over everything else, currently that's not the case. Also use the tween and general motion copying this same effect from super emoji pop, I believe.

Let me look up the same effect in super-emoji-pop.

Bash (ls E:/a327ex/ | grep -i "super.*emoji|pop")

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Bash (ls E:/a327ex/ | grep -i "emoji")

emoji-aimer/
emoji-ball-battles/
emoji-ball-battles-generated/
emoji-ball-bounce/

Bash (ls "E:/a327ex/Anchor-YueScript/" 2>/dev/null | head -20; ls "E:/a327ex/Anchor/" ...)

README.md
docs/
engine/
framework/
reference/
release/
scripts/
docs/
engine/
framework/
reference/
release/
scripts/

Bash (find E:/a327ex/Anchor -type d -iname "super*" 2>/dev/null)

E:/a327ex/Anchor/reference/super emoji box
E:/a327ex/Anchor-YueScript/reference/super emoji box
E:/a327ex/Anchor-lua/reference/super emoji box

Bash (find E:/a327ex/Anchor -type d -iname "pop*" 2>/dev/null)

(Bash completed with no output)

Bash (ls "E:/a327ex/Anchor/reference/super emoji box/")

assets/
conf.lua
lun/
main.lua
tools/

Grep (circle|transition|wipe|tween.radius|radius.tween)

518:      arena:add(hit_circle(x, y, {rs = lun:random_float(6, 8), duration = lun:random_float(0.2, 0.5)}))
601:  arena:add(hit_circle(x or self.x, y or self.y, {rs = 16, duration = 0.3}))
660:    self.enemies.arena:add(hit_circle(x, y, {rs = 10, duration = 0.35}))
693:    self.parent:add(hit_circle(self.x + 15*math.cos(self.r), self.y + 15*math.sin(self.r), {rs = 11, layer = effects_2}))
858:hit_circle = class:class_new(object)
859:function hit_circle:new(x, y, args)
870:function hit_circle:update(dt)
871:  self.layer:circle(self.x, self.y, self.rs, self.color)
874:function hit_circle:change_color(s, color)
1069:    self:sensor('circle', 4)
1074:    -- ui:circle(self.x, self.y, 2, lun.colors.blue[0])

Bash (grep -ril "transition|circle.*expand|wipe" E:/a327ex/Anchor/reference/ 2>/dev/...)

E:/a327ex/Anchor/reference/analysis/anchor-project-review.md
E:/a327ex/Anchor/reference/analysis/camera-systems-research.md
E:/a327ex/Anchor/reference/examples/handcam.lua
E:/a327ex/Anchor/reference/love-compare/tools/msvcp140_atomic_wait.dll
E:/a327ex/Anchor/reference/super emoji box/tools/msvcp140_atomic_wait.dll

Grep (transition_circle|tween.circle|circle.tween|fullscreen.*circle|t_circle|wipe_circle)

Found 20 files limit: 20
anchor.blot.im\logs\emoji-aimer-1.md
anchor.blot.im\logs\website-redesign.md
Anchor2\arena\main.lua
anchor.blot.im\logs\orblike-ui-2.md
anchor.blot.im\logs\codex-tests.md
anchor.blot.im\logs\ebb-ball-bounce-mechanics.md
emoji-ball-bounce\design.md
anchor.blot.im\logs\emoji-ball-bounce-exploration.md
emoji-ball-bounce\reference\main.lua
anchor.blot.im\logs\ricochet.md
anchor.blot.im\logs\thalien-lune-gameplay.md
anchor.blot.im\logs\thalien-lune-design-1.md
anchor.blot.im\logs\composer-2-setup.md
anchor.blot.im\logs\ui-design-1.md
anchor.blot.im\logs\orblike-hideout-2.md
anchor.blot.im\logs\orblike-hideout-1.md
anchor.blot.im\logs\orblike-orb-system-design.md
anchor.blot.im\logs\orblike-board-ability-system.md
anchor.blot.im\logs\orblike-design-plan.md
anchor.blot.im\logs\anchor-app-design.md

Grep (transition_circle|wipe_circle|t_circle)

139:effects_layer   = layer_new('effects')        -- hit_circles, hit_particles, emoji_particles
140-shadow_layer    = layer_new('shadow')         -- derived from game + effects via shadow shader
141-game_outline    = layer_new('game_outline')   -- derived from game via outline shader
142-effects_outline = layer_new('effects_outline')-- derived from effects via outline shader
--
178:effects     = {}    -- hit_circle / hit_particle / future fx
179-
180--- =============================================================================
181--- chamber — square arena drawn as four green rounded-rect "sticks"
--

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Grep (transition.phase|transition.circle|circle.*transition)

No matches found

Bash (grep -rln "transition|wipe" E:/a327ex/Anchor/reference/super/main.lua E:/a327...)

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Grep (transition)

No matches found

Bash (grep -rln "circle.expand|expand.circle|cubic_in_out.circle|tween.radius" ...)

E:/a327ex/BYTEPATH/libraries/hump/docs/timer.rst
E:/a327ex/BYTEPATH/tutorial/answers/02 - Libraries Answers.html
E:/a327ex/BYTEPATH/tutorial/answers/04 - Exercises Answers.html
E:/a327ex/BYTEPATH/tutorial/answers/05 - Game Basics Answers.html
E:/a327ex/BYTEPATH/tutorial/tutorial-code/02 - Libraries/libraries/hump/docs/timer.rst
E:/a327ex/BYTEPATH/tutorial/tutorial-code/03 - Rooms and Areas/libraries/hump/docs/timer.rst
E:/a327ex/BYTEPATH/tutorial/tutorial-code/05 - Game Basics/libraries/hump/docs/timer.rst
E:/a327ex/BYTEPATH/tutorial/tutorial-code/06 - Player Basics/libraries/hump/docs/timer.rst
E:/a327ex/BYTEPATH/tutorial/tutorial-code/07 - Player Stats and Attacks/libraries/hump/docs/timer.rst
E:/a327ex/BYTEPATH/tutorial/tutorial-code/08 - Enemies/libraries/hump/docs/timer.rst

Grep (go_to_main_menu|change.screen|change.room|change.*menu)

No matches found

Grep (transition|tween_circle|tween.radius|circle.tween)

Found 8 files
SNKRX\arena.lua
SNKRX\buy_screen.lua
SNKRX\devlog.md
SNKRX\engine\game\state.lua
SNKRX\main.lua
SNKRX\mainmenu.lua
SNKRX\shared.lua
SNKRX\todo

Grep (transition)

464:      if self.transition_action then self:transition_action(unpack(self.transition_action_args or {})) end
465-      self.t:after(0.3, function()
466-        self.x, self.y = gw/2, gh/2
467-        self.t:after(0.6, function() self.t:tween(0.05, self, {text_sx = 0, text_sy = 0}, math.cubic_in_out) end)
468-        if not args.dont_tween_out then
469-          self.t:tween(0.6, self, {rs = 0}, math.linear, function() self.text = nil; self.dead = true end)
470-        else
471-          self.t:after(0.6, function() self.text = nil; self.dead = true end)
472-        end
473-      end)
474-    end)

Read (E:/a327ex/SNKRX/shared.lua)

430      self.animation = AnimationLogic(0.075, 3, 'bounce', {
431       function() self.ox, self.oy = 0.6*self.w, 0.6*self.h end,
432       function() self.ox, self.oy = 0.8*self.w, 0.8*self.h end,
433       function() self.ox, self.oy = self.w, self.h end,
434     })
435   else
436     self.animation = AnimationLogic(0.075, 3, 'bounce', {
437       function() self.ox, self.oy = 0.8*self.w, 0.8*self.h end,
438       function() self.ox, self.oy = 0.9*self.w, 0.9*self.h end,
439       function() self.ox, self.oy = self.w, self.h end,
440     })
441   end
442 end
443 
444 
445 function HoverCrosshair:deactivate()
446   self.t:cancel'activate'
447   self.t:tween(0.05, self, {sx = 0, sy = 0}, math.linear, function() self.sx, self.sy = 0, 0 end, 'deactivate')
448 end
449 
450 
451 
452 
453 TransitionEffect = Object:extend()
454 TransitionEffect:implement(GameObject)
455 function TransitionEffect:init(args)
456   self:init_game_object(args)
457   self.rs = 0
458   self.text_sx, self.text_sy = 0, 0
459   self.t:after(0.25, function()
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Found SNKRX's TransitionEffect (shared.lua:453-489). Pattern: 0.25s pause → 0.6s linear expand to 1.2*gw → action → 0.3s mid pause → recenter to (gw/2, gh/2) → 0.6s linear shrink. Uses chained timer:after / timer:tween callbacks rather than manual phase counters.

Let me check the framework's timer cancel API for the run_reset case, and confirm timer_tween signature.

Grep (^function (timer_cancel|timer_clear|timer_reset|timer_after|timer_tween))

E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\timer.lua:80:function timer_after(t, delay, name_or_callback, callback_function)
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\timer.lua:125:function timer_tween(t, duration, name_or_target, target_or_values, values_or_easing, easing_or_after, after_function)
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\timer.lua:235:function timer_cancel(t, name)

Read (E:/a327ex/emoji-aimer/anchor/timer.lua)

225      tt = step_method(tt)
226     delays[i] = math.lerp(tt, start_delay, end_delay)
227   end
228   insert_entry(t, {name = name, mode = 'during_step', time = 0, delays = delays, callback = callback, after = after, step_index = 1})
229 end
230 
231 --[[
232   timer_cancel(t, name)
233   Cancels a named callback. The `after` callback does NOT fire.
234 ]]
235 function timer_cancel(t, name)
236   local i = find(t, name)
237   if i then t.entries[i].cancelled = true end
238 end
239 
240 --[[
241   timer_trigger(t, name)
242   Fires a named callback immediately. Behavior depends on mode:
243     - after: fires and removes
244     - every/cooldown/*_step: fires and resets time
245     - watch/when: fires callback once
246     - during/tween: not supported (continuous modes)
247 ]]
248 function timer_trigger(t, name)
249   local i = find(t, name)
250   if not i then return end
251   local e = t.entries[i]
252   if e.mode == 'after' then
253     e.callback(); e.cancelled = true
254   elseif e.mode == 'every' or e.mode == 'cooldown' or e.mode == 'every_step' or e.mode == 'during_step' then

Plan: rewrite using SNKRX's pattern — chained timer_after / timer_tween callbacks with linear motion, fixed radius 1.2*gw, with the phases collapsed into a single function. Also adding a dedicated transition_layer drawn AFTER cursor.

Read (E:/a327ex/emoji-aimer/main.lua)

200  game_layer          = layer_new('game')
201 effects_layer       = layer_new('effects')
202 shadow_layer        = layer_new('shadow')
203 game_outline        = layer_new('game_outline')
204 effects_outline     = layer_new('effects_outline')
205 
206 -- UI is split into two layers, both outlined by the same shader:
207 --   ui_panel_layer   — structural fills (panel rects, tag rects, cost dots,
208 --                      mana pip frames, slot frames). The shader produces
209 --                      the chunky black outline around each panel.
210 --   ui_content_layer — text + icons. Drawn in WHITE so the shader's black
211 --                      halo reads as a black outline around white interior
212 --                      (matches the reference look). Icons get outlined too.
213 -- Both have a derived <layer>_outline pass that runs outline_shader on them.
214 ui_panel_layer      = layer_new('ui_panel')
215 ui_panel_outline    = layer_new('ui_panel_outline')
216 ui_content_layer    = layer_new('ui_content')
217 ui_content_outline  = layer_new('ui_content_outline')
218 
219 -- Fullscreen dim for ROUND END. Not outlined — outlining a fullscreen rect
220 -- produces a fully-black screen.
221 overlay_layer       = layer_new('overlay')
222 
223 -- Intermediate layer for damage_number rendering. Each frame we bucket damage
224 -- numbers by rarity color; for each bucket we re-render to digit_layer, set

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Now replace state variables and constants. Update timing to match SNKRX (0.25 / 0.6 / 0.3 / 0.6) and collapse globals into a transition table.

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Now remove the helper since SNKRX uses fixed 1.2*gw:

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Now replace the trigger + the manual phase machine in update. Also add timer_update(transition.timer, dt).

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Click gating:

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Replace the draw block (move from overlay_layer to transition_layer, simplify):

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Now add transition_layer to the render block and composite it after the cursor.

Grep (layer_render(cursor_layer))

1911:  layer_render(cursor_layer)
1912-
1913-  -- Damage-number recolor pass. Bucket damage_numbers by their rarity_color

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Grep (layer_draw(cursor_layer))

1969:  layer_draw(cursor_layer)
1970-
1971-  -- Debug AABBs — red wall boxes, green resource bounding shapes. Drawn

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Finally, make run_reset wipe a transition that's mid-flight (R during the wipe should fully reset):

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Recap of what changed:

  • New transition_layer rendered/composited after the cursor — circle is now on top of everything.
  • Replaced manual phase counters with SNKRX's chained timer_after / timer_tween style, all in start_round_end_transition().
  • Timing matches SNKRX: 0.25s pause / 0.6s expand / 0.3s mid hold / 0.6s shrink, all linear, radius 1.2*gw.
  • Removed distance_to_farthest_corner — fixed 1.2*gw overshoots both possible origins (cursor, screen-center).
  • run_reset wipes the timer so R during a wipe fully resets.

Try it.

When you pause the game everything visually disappears. The round should end after all resources have been collected by the player (they automatically move towards him once target number is reached).

Right — pulled out the vacuum step entirely, which made the screen visually empty out the moment kills hit target. Restoring it: targets die immediately, resources auto-vacuum to the cursor (visible, normal collection), and the wipe only starts once any_live_resource() returns false.

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Flow now:

  1. Kills hit target → targets die → resources keep updating, vacuum kicks in (full pull at any distance, gated by game_state == 'cleared' in resource:update).
  2. Player drifts/sits there as resources fly to the cursor and get collected normally (gold credited, particles, etc).
  3. Last resource collected → start_round_end_transition() fires.
  4. 0.25s pause → 0.6s circle expand from cursor → bg swap to shop → 0.3s mid hold → 0.6s circle shrink from center.

Try it.

Let's make the transition layer also be outlined so the transition circle is also outlined.

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Grep (layer_clear(cursor_outline))

1961:  layer_clear(cursor_outline)
1962-  layer_draw_from(cursor_outline, cursor_layer, outline_shader)
1963-

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Added transition_outline layer, wired it through the outline shader pass like the others, composited it just under the transition fill.

Let's have the tween out be on the current mouse position instead of locked to center. Let's have tween out also be cubic_in instead of linear.

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Out phase now origins on mouse_position() and eases via math.cubic_in instead of linear.

cubic_out, default debug draw off.

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Out phase eases via cubic_out, debug overlay starts off (F2 to toggle on).

Transition out duration shorter.

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Out duration 0.6 → 0.4.

Hmmm, ok, let's change things such that the play area is a square, it will not work that well being a rectangle. This means we actually want walls on the sides, such with size such that they produce a square central play area. UI elements should then be stacked vertically along the top of the left wall. Targets should spawn inside the player area. Resources should fall down the bottom and hit the (now invisible) floor there.

Big restructure. Let me audit the existing constants first.

Grep (HUD_TOP_H|HUD_BOTTOM_H|FLOOR_BLEED|TARGET_HUD_MARGIN)

170:HUD_TOP_H    = 40
171:HUD_BOTTOM_H = 40
176:FLOOR_BLEED  = 10
179:TARGET_HUD_MARGIN = 6
185:ARENA_Y_MIN = HUD_TOP_H + TARGET_HUD_MARGIN
186:ARENA_Y_MAX = gh - HUD_BOTTOM_H - TARGET_HUD_MARGIN
323:create_wall(gw/2,                          gh - HUD_BOTTOM_H + _wt/2,       gw,  _wt)  -- bottom (floor)
1767:  layer_rectangle(game_layer, -FLOOR_BLEED, gh - HUD_BOTTOM_H,
1768:                  gw + 2*FLOOR_BLEED, HUD_BOTTOM_H + FLOOR_BLEED, fg())
1792:    local strip_y    = (HUD_TOP_H - chip_h)/2

Read (E:/a327ex/emoji-aimer/main.lua)

155  TRANSITION_PAUSE_DURATION = 0.25
156 TRANSITION_IN_DURATION    = 0.6
157 TRANSITION_MID_DURATION   = 0.3
158 TRANSITION_OUT_DURATION   = 0.4
159 TRANSITION_FINAL_RADIUS   = 1.2*gw
160 
161 -- Round / arena
162 TARGETS_INITIAL       = 6       -- targets spawned at round start
163 TARGET_SPAWN_TICK     = 0.25    -- how often to consider spawning a target
164 TARGET_MIN_SPAWN_DIST = TARGET_RADIUS*4  -- min distance between target centers when spawning
165 TARGET_COUNT_MIN      = 6       -- ideal alive count at round start
166 TARGET_COUNT_MAX      = 12      -- ideal alive count at round end (ramps up over time)
167 
168 -- HUD strips reserved at the top and bottom of the screen. UI elements live
169 -- inside these strips and targets are forbidden from spawning there.
170 HUD_TOP_H    = 40
171 HUD_BOTTOM_H = 40
172 
173 -- Extra px the floor rect overflows on left/right/bottom of the screen so
174 -- the camera handcam (±2px translation + ±0.02 rad rotation) can never
175 -- expose the sky gradient behind it.
176 FLOOR_BLEED  = 10
177 
178 -- Buffer between target edges and the HUD strip lines.
179 TARGET_HUD_MARGIN = 6
180 
181 -- Arena bounds for target spawning. try_spawn_target adds TARGET_RADIUS
182 -- internally so target edges stop at these values.
183 ARENA_X_MIN = 20
184 ARENA_X_MAX = gw - 20
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Now reposition the walls. Left/right become the side walls; bottom moves outside the screen.

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315  walls      = {}
316 walls_aabb = {}
317 
318 local function create_wall(x, y, w, h)
319   local c = collider({}, 'wall', 'static', 'box', w, h)
320   c:set_position(x, y)
321   walls[#walls + 1]           = c
322   walls_aabb[#walls_aabb + 1] = { x = x - w/2, y = y - h/2, w = w, h = h }
323 end
324 
325 create_wall(gw/2,                          -_wt/2,                          gw,  _wt)  -- top
326 create_wall(gw/2,                          gh - HUD_BOTTOM_H + _wt/2,       gw,  _wt)  -- bottom (floor)
327 create_wall(-_wt/2,                        gh/2,                            _wt, gh)   -- left
328 create_wall(gw + _wt/2,                    gh/2,                            _wt, gh)   -- right
329 
330 -- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
331 -- top-level state
332 -- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
333 targets           = {}
334 effects           = {}

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Now replace the floor visual with side-wall visuals:

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1762 
1763      camera_attach(main_camera, game_layer)
1764      camera_attach(main_camera, effects_layer)
1765      -- Floor — fills the bottom HUD strip in the chip-background color so the
1766      -- UI sitting on top reads consistently. Drawn first so resources/targets
1767      -- sit on top; the outline shader gives the top edge a black border that
1768      -- reads as the wall surface. Bleeds past the screen on L/R/bottom so
1769      -- camera handcam can't expose the sky behind it.
1770      layer_rectangle(game_layer, -FLOOR_BLEED, gh - HUD_BOTTOM_H,
1771                      gw + 2*FLOOR_BLEED, HUD_BOTTOM_H + FLOOR_BLEED, fg())
1772      for _, t  in ipairs(targets) do if not t._dead  then t:draw() end end
1773      -- Skip damage_numbers in this pass — they draw to digit_layer and get

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Now restructure the HUD chips from horizontal-top to vertical-stacked-on-left-wall:

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1786   -- Plain-text HUD in the top-left: round / timer / score progress / gold.
1787      -- Drawn on ui_content_layer in white; the outline_shader pass below adds
1788      -- the chunky black halo so it reads against the sky gradient. Hidden
1789      -- during 'shop' so the shop overlay reads cleanly.
1790      local round = ROUNDS[round_index]
1791      if game_state ~= 'shop' then
1792        local m  = math.floor(round_timer / 60)
1793        local s  = math.floor(round_timer - m*60)
1794        -- Top HUD strip — chips stacked horizontally, centered vertically in
1795        -- the strip. Bullseye + coin pass gap=6 to match the hourglass chip's
1796        -- visual icon-to-text spacing (the hourglass has built-in transparent
1797        -- padding the others lack).
1798        local chip_h     = 24                      -- pad_y(5) + max(icon_w=14, font_h=11) + pad_y(5)
1799        local strip_y    = (HUD_TOP_H - chip_h)/2
1800        local side_pad   = 10                      -- distance from screen edge to first/last chip
1801        local chip_gap   = 10                      -- distance between chips
1802        local cur_x      = side_pad
1803        local cw
1804    
1805        -- Worst-case text width for the timer so the chip stays a fixed size as
1806        -- the digits tick. LanaPixel isn't perfectly monospaced.
1807        local timer_text_w = font_get_text_width('main', '88:88')
1808        cw = draw_hud_chip(cur_x, strip_y, hourglass_img,
1809                           string.format('%02d:%02d', m, s), nil, nil, timer_text_w)
1810        cur_x = cur_x + cw + chip_gap
1811    
1812        cw = draw_hud_chip(cur_x, strip_y, direct_hit_img,
1813                           kills_this_round .. ' / ' .. round.target_kills, nil, 6)
1814        cur_x = cur_x + cw + chip_gap
1815    

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1815 
1816        draw_hud_chip(cur_x, strip_y, coin_img, tostring(gold), nil, 6)
1817      end
1818    
1819      -- (No END ROUND button — round-end transition is automatic: 'cleared'
1820      -- enters vacuum mode in resource:update, and once every resource has
1821      -- been collected the update loop calls advance_round → shop.)
1822    
1823      -- Game-over / win overlay. Centered title + restart hint. Title uses
1824      -- fonts.mid (Awesome 9 @ 16) for impact; hint uses fonts.main.

Edit (E:/a327ex/emoji-aimer/main.lua)

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Done. New layout:

  • Play area: 270×270 square centered horizontally (x∈[105, 375], y∈[0, 270]).
  • Left/right side walls: 105px cream columns flanking the play area, both bleeding 10px past their outer screen edges.
  • Top + bottom walls: invisible colliders just outside the screen — resources fall to the screen bottom and bounce off the invisible floor.
  • HUD chips: timer/kills/gold stacked vertically at the top of the left wall (x=8, y=8 start, 6px gaps).
  • Targets spawn anywhere inside the square play area minus a 6px buffer.

Try it.

UI should also wobble with the camera, so be in world space. Everything is still disappearing when you pause the game, this is likely because you're pausing by not updating, but if you don't update you also don't send draw commands. Perhaps the more correct way to pause would be to send dt as 0. Check the engine about this, I believe we may have designed Anchor in such a way to take such problems into account and designed a standard way of pausing.

Two parts. First let me check Anchor for a pause mechanism.

Grep (paused|pause|dt = 0)

No matches found

Grep (pause|paused|set_dt|sleep_dt)

E:\a327ex\Anchor2\engine\src\anchor.c:10027:    // Clamp delta time to handle anomalies (pauses, debugger, sleep resume)
E:\a327ex\Anchor2\.claude\CLAUDE.md:56:For compiling games to WebAssembly and embedding them on a website (currently `anchor.blot.im`, eventually `Anchor2/app`), see **`docs/WEB_DEPLOY.md`**. It covers the two-stage build (`engine/build-web-engine.sh` for the shared engine, `scripts/package-web-game.sh` for per-game packaging), the shell HTML quirks (focus-based pause, Alt+Enter fullscreen, the `MainLoop.preMainLoop` hook), and integration notes for the current Blot host vs the future custom site.
E:\a327ex\Anchor2\scripts\package-web-game.sh:155:        // Pause-when-not-focused. The game runs only while this iframe has
E:\a327ex\Anchor2\scripts\package-web-game.sh:156:        // keyboard focus. Initial state is paused; click into the canvas to
E:\a327ex\Anchor2\scripts\package-web-game.sh:157:        // start, click outside (or tab away) to pause.
E:\a327ex\Anchor2\scripts\package-web-game.sh:160:        // pauseMainLoop/resumeMainLoop because the latter has flaky resume
E:\a327ex\Anchor2\scripts\package-web-game.sh:167:        // canvas retains the last-drawn pixels after we pause, so a brief
E:\a327ex\Anchor2\docs\WEB_DEPLOY.md:59:   - Wires up Alt+Enter fullscreen and focus-based pause (see "Shell HTML behavior" below).
E:\a327ex\Anchor2\docs\WEB_DEPLOY.md:72:### Pause-when-not-focused via `MainLoop.preMainLoop`
E:\a327ex\Anchor2\docs\WEB_DEPLOY.md:74:The engine starts paused and only runs while the iframe has keyboard focus. Implementation:
E:\a327ex\Anchor2\docs\WEB_DEPLOY.md:95:- **`MainLoop.preMainLoop` instead of `Module.pauseMainLoop`/`resumeMainLoop`.** The latter has flaky resume behavior under `simulate_infinite_loop=1` (which the engine uses). The `preMainLoop` array is iterated before each frame; if any callback returns false, the frame is skipped. Toggling our `_shouldRun` cleanly gates execution.
E:\a327ex\Anchor2\docs\WEB_DEPLOY.md:116:### Pause/resume from parent (legacy, optional)
E:\a327ex\Anchor2\docs\WEB_DEPLOY.md:118:The shell also listens for `'pause'` and `'resume'` postMessages from the parent. This was used when the parent drove pause via IntersectionObserver; it's no longer wired up on `anchor.blot.im` (focus-based handles it), but the listener is harmless and could be re-enabled if you want viewport-based pause back.
E:\a327ex\Anchor2\docs\WEB_DEPLOY.md:124:The Blot site's `script.js` (in Blot's template editor, not the local repo) has a `setupIframePause` function that:
E:\a327ex\Anchor2\docs\WEB_DEPLOY.md:128:3. **Skips YouTube iframes entirely** — they don't get the border highlight and they're not pause/play-controlled from the parent. YouTube embeds rely on YouTube's own play button and built-in pause behavior. Anchor2 iframes self-manage their pause/resume via the shell HTML's own focus/blur listeners (no parent coordination needed).
E:\a327ex\Anchor2\docs\WEB_DEPLOY.md:195:- **Per-game `index.html`**: the shell HTML the package script generates works in any iframe with `allowfullscreen`. It self-manages pause/resume via its own focus events; no parent coordination required for Anchor2 games.
E:\a327ex\Anchor2\docs\WEB_DEPLOY.md:202:3. Port the iframe focus coordination JS from Blot's `script.js` to `Anchor2/app`. The relevant function is `setupIframePause` (see anchor.blot.im's deployed `script.js`).
E:\a327ex\Anchor2\docs\WEB_DEPLOY.md:204:5. If using YouTube embeds, keep the `?enablejsapi=1` URL parameter and the postMessage code that pauses YouTube on focus loss.
E:\a327ex\Anchor2\docs\WEB_DEPLOY.md:224:- **Game starts but never pauses**: check the parent page's iframe focus tracking. The Anchor2 iframe self-pauses on `window.blur`, which fires when focus leaves the iframe — make sure nothing prevents that.
E:\a327ex\Anchor2\arena\main.lua:57:bind('pause', 'key:space')
E:\a327ex\Anchor2\reference\Anchor_v1\anchor_v1\init.lua:805:      an:physics_set_enabled(false)  -- pause physics
E:\a327ex\Anchor2\reference\Anchor_v1\anchor_v1\init.lua:1500:        toggle_pause()
E:\a327ex\Anchor2\reference\Anchor_v1\anchor_v1\animation.lua:85:  Pauses playback without resetting.
E:\a327ex\Anchor2\docs\ENGINE_API.md:870:physics_set_enabled(false)  -- pause physics
E:\a327ex\Anchor2\docs\ENGINE_API.md:1741:    toggle_pause()
E:\a327ex\Anchor2\docs\ENGINE_API.md:2169:Sets the time scale multiplier. Affects dt returned by engine_get_dt. Use for slow-motion or pause effects.
E:\a327ex\Anchor2\docs\ENGINE_API.md:2173:engine_set_time_scale(0)    -- pause
E:\a327ex\Anchor2\engine\include\lua\lstate.h:273:  lu_byte gcpause;  /* size of pause between successive GCs */
E:\a327ex\Anchor2\docs\BLOT_MIGRATION.md:32:- `script.js` (composed from `heading.js` + `pre-copy.js` partials + inline `buildFeed`, `setupIframePause`, `setupImageLightbox`, `PageTransitioner` class)
E:\a327ex\Anchor2\docs\BLOT_MIGRATION.md:125:4. **Module.pauseMainLoop unreliable under simulate_infinite_loop=1**: Anchor2 engine uses `emscripten_set_main_loop(fn, 0, 1)` and `Module.pauseMainLoop()` works but `Module.resumeMainLoop()` doesn't reliably restart the loop. Fix: use `MainLoop.preMainLoop.push(() => _shouldRun)` instead — returning false skips the iteration. **This is purely Anchor2 engine behavior, not Blot-specific** — keep this fix in `scripts/package-web-game.sh` regardless of host.
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Grep (engine_set_time_scale|engine_get_time_scale|engine_get_dt)

2135:### engine_get_dt
2136-
2137:`engine_get_dt() -> number`
2138-
2139-Returns the fixed delta time (1/120 for 120Hz physics).
2140-
2141-```lua
2142:local dt = engine_get_dt()
2143-```
2144-
2145-### engine_get_unscaled_dt
2146-
2147-`engine_get_unscaled_dt() -> number`
2148-
2149-Returns the unscaled delta time (ignores time scale). Use for UI or effects that shouldn't slow down.
2150-
2151-```lua
2152-local unscaled_dt = engine_get_unscaled_dt()
2153-```
2154-
2155:### engine_get_time_scale
2156-
2157:`engine_get_time_scale() -> number`
2158-
2159-Returns the current time scale multiplier. Default is 1.0.
2160-
2161-```lua
2162:local scale = engine_get_time_scale()
2163-```
2164-
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Grep (sync_engine_globals|engine_get_dt|time_scale)

E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\init.lua:23:      sync_engine_globals()          -- refresh time/frame/etc. mirrors
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\init.lua:88:  sync_engine_globals()
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\init.lua:96:  dt (e.g. during hitstop / slow-mo), compute `dt * time_scale` locally,
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\init.lua:97:  or call `engine_get_dt()` which returns the scaled version. We
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\init.lua:101:function sync_engine_globals()
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\init.lua:114:  set_time_scale(scale)
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\init.lua:118:function set_time_scale(s)
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\init.lua:119:  time_scale = s
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\init.lua:120:  engine_set_time_scale(s)
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\init.lua:152:  -- Set up dynamic global state (initial values; refreshed by sync_engine_globals)
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\init.lua:157:  time_scale = 1.0

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85   spritesheets = spritesheets or {}
86  
87  --[[
88    sync_engine_globals()
89    Refreshes global mirrors of engine state. Call once at the top of your
90    update function to ensure `time`, `frame_num`, `fps`, etc. reflect the
91    current frame. `width`, `height`, `platform`, `headless` are set at init
92    time and don't change during normal play.
93  
94    Note on dt: the `dt` parameter passed to your `update(dt)` function is
95    the UNSCALED fixed physics timestep (PHYSICS_RATE). If you want scaled
96    dt (e.g. during hitstop / slow-mo), compute `dt * time_scale` locally,
97    or call `engine_get_dt()` which returns the scaled version. We
98    deliberately do NOT set a global `dt` here to avoid shadowing the
99    function parameter inside update.
100 ]]
101 function sync_engine_globals()
102   frame_num = engine_get_frame()
103   step_num = engine_get_step()
104   time = engine_get_time()
105   unscaled_dt = engine_get_unscaled_dt()
106   window_width, window_height = engine_get_window_size()
107   scale = engine_get_scale()
108   fullscreen = engine_is_fullscreen()
109   fps = engine_get_fps()
110   draw_calls = engine_get_draw_calls()
111 end
112 
113 --[[
114   set_time_scale(scale)
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800  
801   --[[
802     Enables or disables physics simulation.
803 
804     Usage:
805       an:physics_set_enabled(false)  -- pause physics
806       an:physics_set_enabled(true)   -- resume physics
807   ]]
808   function an:physics_set_enabled(enabled)
809     physics_set_enabled(enabled)
810   end
811 
812   --[[
813     Registers a physics tag for collision filtering.
814 
815     Usage:
816       an:physics_tag('player')
817       an:physics_tag('enemy')
818       an:physics_tag('wall')
819 
820     Tags must be registered before enabling collisions between them.
821   ]]
822   function an:physics_tag(name)
823     physics_register_tag(name)
824   end

Let me check collection_update and arena/main.lua for the canonical pause pattern.

Grep (^function collection_update|set_time_scale|time_scale)

No matches found

Grep (pause|paused)

57:bind('pause', 'key:space')
58-bind('debug', 'key:f1')
59-bind('slowmo', 'key:q')
60-
61-game_layer                = layer_new('game')
62-ui_layer                  = layer_new('ui')

Grep ('pause'|paused|set_time_scale|time_scale)

56-bind('reset', 'key:r')
57:bind('pause', 'key:space')
58-bind('debug', 'key:f1')
59-bind('slowmo', 'key:q')
60-

Grep ('pause'|'slowmo')

56-bind('reset', 'key:r')
57:bind('pause', 'key:space')
58-bind('debug', 'key:f1')
59:bind('slowmo', 'key:q')
60-
61-game_layer                = layer_new('game')
62-ui_layer                  = layer_new('ui')

Bash (grep -n "input_pressed.pause|input_pressed.slowmo|input_pressed('pause')|in...)

(Bash completed with no output)

Bash (grep -n "set_time_scale|time_scale" E:/a327ex/Anchor2/arena/main.lua E:/a327ex/...)

E:/a327ex/Anchor2/framework/anchor/init.lua:96:  dt (e.g. during hitstop / slow-mo), compute `dt * time_scale` locally,
E:/a327ex/Anchor2/framework/anchor/init.lua:114:  set_time_scale(scale)
E:/a327ex/Anchor2/framework/anchor/init.lua:118:function set_time_scale(s)
E:/a327ex/Anchor2/framework/anchor/init.lua:119:  time_scale = s
E:/a327ex/Anchor2/framework/anchor/init.lua:120:  engine_set_time_scale(s)
E:/a327ex/Anchor2/framework/anchor/init.lua:157:  time_scale = 1.0

Found the canonical pause mechanism: set_time_scale(0) makes engine_get_dt() return 0, but the framework's update(dt) parameter is unscaled by design. Standard pattern is to compute dt * time_scale locally for things that should respect pause, while pause-immune systems (the transition timer itself) use raw dt.

Plan:

  1. Don't kill targets at trigger — they stay visible through the vacuum + pause + circle_in. advance_round() kills them at the in→mid boundary, hidden behind the yellow circle.
  2. Camera-attach the UI layers so chips wobble with the walls.
  3. set_time_scale(transition.phase and 0 or 1) — pauses world updates during the entire wipe (including the pre-pause). Pass dt * time_scale to entity updates / camera / round timer / etc; pass raw dt to transition.timer so the wipe still progresses.

Let me audit the update function first.

Read (E:/a327ex/emoji-aimer/main.lua)

1573 
1574      for i = 1, TARGETS_INITIAL do try_spawn_target() end
1575    end
1576    
1577    -- advance_round() — END ROUND button clicked from 'cleared'. Beating the
1578    -- last round wins the run; otherwise we drop into the shop. Round
1579    -- advancement itself happens via exit_shop, after item buying.
1580    function advance_round()
1581      if round_index >= #ROUNDS then
1582        game_state = 'won'
1583      else
1584        game_state  = 'shop'
1585        combo_count = 0
1586        combo_timer = 0
1587        -- Clear leftover targets/effects so the shop overlay sits over a
1588        -- quiet field instead of resources still bouncing around.
1589        for _, t  in ipairs(targets) do if not t._dead  then entity_kill(t)  end end
1590        for _, fx in ipairs(effects) do if not fx._dead then entity_kill(fx) end end
1591        process_destroy_queue()
1592        targets = {}
1593        effects = {}
1594      end
1595    end
1596    
1597    -- exit_shop() — NEXT ROUND button in the shop. Bumps round_index and
1598    -- starts the next round with the items the player just bought.
1599    function exit_shop()
1600      round_index = round_index + 1
1601      start_round(round_index)
1602    end
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1670 
1671      the_cursor:update(dt)
1672      the_combo_display:update(dt)
1673    
1674      -- Combo timer ticks while a streak is alive; tick gated to active states
1675      -- so combo doesn't decay during 'won' / 'lost' (lets the player see their
1676      -- final streak). Round transitions reset combo via start_round.
1677      if (game_state == 'playing' or game_state == 'cleared') and combo_count > 0 then
1678        combo_timer = combo_timer - dt
1679        if combo_timer <= 0 then on_combo_break() end
1680      end
1681    
1682      -- 'playing' → 'cleared' when kill count hits the target. Targets are
1683      -- killed immediately; resources keep updating and enter vacuum mode (see
1684      -- resource:update — the cleared check pulls them straight to the cursor
1685      -- regardless of distance). The wipe transition only starts once the
1686      -- player has actually collected every dropped resource.
1687      if game_state == 'playing' and kills_this_round >= ROUNDS[round_index].target_kills then
1688        game_state = 'cleared'
1689        for _, t in ipairs(targets) do if not t._dead then entity_kill(t) end end
1690      end
1691    
1692      -- Resources all in → start the round-end wipe. transition.phase guard
1693      -- ensures we trigger exactly once.
1694      if game_state == 'cleared' and transition.phase == nil and not any_live_resource() then
1695        start_round_end_transition()
1696      end
1697    
1698      timer_update(transition.timer, dt)
1699    
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1745       exit_shop()
1746        end
1747      end
1748    
1749      -- Effects (particles, hit_effects, damage_numbers) keep updating across
1750      -- state boundaries so in-flight animations finish cleanly when the round
1751      -- transitions or the run ends.
1752      collection_update(targets, dt)
1753      collection_update(effects, dt)
1754    
1755      camera_update(main_camera, dt)
1756      process_destroy_queue()
1757      memory_tracker_update(mem_tracker)
1758    end
1759    

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Don't kill targets at trigger — they stay visible through the vacuum + pause + circle_in. advance_round() kills them at the in→mid boundary, hidden behind the yellow circle.

This is a terrible idea, do not do this.

How are you pausing right now?

Honest answer: I'm not pausing anything. The "pause" phase is just a timer_after callback that waits 0.25s before kicking off the circle_in tween. During those 0.25s, update() runs normally — full dt, all entity updates, physics step, everything. Nothing is being skipped.

The reason the arena looks empty during the pause isn't a pause-induced rendering bug — it's that by the time start_round_end_transition() fires, the arena is intentionally empty:

  1. Trigger frame: entity_kill(t) on every target → process_destroy_queue() removes them at end of update.
  2. Vacuum: resources fly to cursor and self-kill on collection.
  3. any_live_resource() returns false → start_round_end_transition() fires.
  4. Pause phase begins — at this point targets and resources are already gone. Walls, HUD chips, cursor still draw normally; there's just no game content left to draw.

So set_time_scale(0) wouldn't help — there's nothing to freeze. Skipping updates wouldn't help — drawing still happens regardless.

If you want stuff visible during the pause, the question is what stuff. Some options:

  • Trigger the pause earlier in the flow — pause begins right when kills hit target (targets still on screen, resources just spawned), then unpause and let vacuum happen.
  • A round-end visual drawn during the pause (e.g. "ROUND COMPLETE" banner, kill summary).
  • Flash/freeze-frame the moment of completion — capture the screen state visually somehow.

What did you have in mind for the pause to look like?

Oh, there's no need for pause then, just don't kill the targets.

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Or rather, only kill them after the circle has already taken over the screen. But... You should be killing everything, the round itself, after the circle covers the screen, in that change from round to map, the targets should die. Why are they dying before?

Right — the kill should happen at the mid boundary (hidden behind the yellow), not at the trigger. Two edits: remove the trigger's kill loop, and drop the pause phase entirely (now that targets stay visible there's no empty-screen beat to mask).

Edit (E:/a327ex/emoji-aimer/main.lua)

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Now drop the pause phase from the transition:

Edit (E:/a327ex/emoji-aimer/main.lua)

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Drop the now-unused constant:

Edit (E:/a327ex/emoji-aimer/main.lua)

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Done. New flow:

  1. Last needed kill happens → game_state = 'cleared' (no kills, just state flip).
  2. Vacuum runs — resources fly to cursor (alive targets just sit there inert because clicks are gated to 'playing').
  3. Last resource collected → start_round_end_transition() fires immediately (no pause).
  4. Circle expands from cursor over 0.6s with targets still visible behind it.
  5. Mid: advance_round() kills the alive targets/effects + swaps bg to shop. Yellow circle covers everything.
  6. 0.3s mid hold.
  7. Circle shrinks from cursor with cubic_out over 0.4s, revealing the shop.

Try it.

Let's have resources physically collide with targets. When they do, the targets and resources have their spring pulled a little. UI should wobble with camera.

Let me check the collision detection API.

Grep (^function collision_entities_begin|^function collision_)

E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\physics.lua:137:function collision_entities_begin(tag_a, tag_b)
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\physics.lua-138-  local events = physics_get_collision_begin(tag_a, tag_b)
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\physics.lua-139-  local result = {}
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\physics.lua-140-  for i = 1, #events do
--
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\physics.lua:164:function collision_entities_end(tag_a, tag_b)
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\physics.lua-165-  local events = physics_get_collision_end(tag_a, tag_b)
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\physics.lua-166-  local result = {}
E:\a327ex\emoji-aimer\anchor\physics.lua-167-  for i = 1, #events do

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130  
131 --[[
132   collision_entities_begin(tag_a, tag_b)
133   Returns a table of collision-begin events between tagged entities.
134   Each event: {a = entity matching tag_a, b = entity matching tag_b,
135                x, y, nx, ny}
136 ]]
137 function collision_entities_begin(tag_a, tag_b)
138   local events = physics_get_collision_begin(tag_a, tag_b)
139   local result = {}
140   for i = 1, #events do
141     local ev = events[i]
142     local body_a, body_b = ev.body_a, ev.body_b
143     -- Normalize: ensure body_a corresponds to tag_a
144     if ev.tag_a == tag_b and ev.tag_b == tag_a then
145       body_a, body_b = body_b, body_a
146     end
147     local a = body_to_entity(body_a)
148     local b = body_to_entity(body_b)
149     if a and b then
150       result[#result + 1] = {
151         a = a, b = b,
152         x = ev.point_x, y = ev.point_y,
153         nx = ev.normal_x, ny = ev.normal_y,
154       }
155     end
156   end
157   return result
158 end
159 
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Three changes:

  1. Register 'target' physics tag, enable 'resource''target' collision.
  2. Add a static circle collider to target, destroy it in target:destroy.
  3. Detect collision-begin events in update, pull a small spring on both bodies.
  4. Camera-attach ui_panel_layer and ui_content_layer in draw.

Edit (E:/a327ex/emoji-aimer/main.lua)

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Now add the collider to target. Find target:new:

Grep (function target:new|function target:destroy)

745:function target:new(x, y)
895:function target:destroy() end

Read (E:/a327ex/emoji-aimer/main.lua)

745  function target:new(x, y)
746   self.x, self.y    = x, y
747   self.radius       = TARGET_RADIUS
748   self.hp           = TARGET_HP
749   self.max_hp       = TARGET_HP
750   self.flashing     = true                    -- flash white during spawn animation
751   self.spawn_scale  = 0                       -- 0 → 1 over the spawn tween (see below)
752   self.hp_visible   = false                   -- shown after first hit, auto-hides 2s after the last hit
753   self.hp_flashing  = false                   -- bar flashes white briefly on each hit
754   make_entity(self)
755   self.timer        = timer_new()
756   self.spring       = spring_new()
757   spring_add(self.spring, 'hit', 1, 3, 0.5)
758   spring_add(self.spring, 'hp',  1, 3, 0.5)   -- hp bar pop spring
759   self.image        = direct_hit_img
760   self.image_scale  = 2 * self.radius / self.image.width
761 
762   -- Spawn-in: tween size 0 → 1 over 0.15s with cubic ease-in-out, flash
763   -- white through the whole tween, then a spring "pop" + white/red hit
764   -- particle burst on landing. The target isn't clickable until spawn_scale
765   -- crosses 0.5 (see :contains) so the player can't accidentally kill an
766   -- invisible/just-emerging target.
767   timer_tween(self.timer, 0.15, 'spawn', self, { spawn_scale = 1 }, math.cubic_in_out,
768     function()
769       self.flashing = false
770       spring_pull(self.spring, 'hit', 0.6, 5, 0.75)
771       for i = 1, 3 do
772         spawn_emoji_particle(self.x, self.y, direct_hit_img, {
773           velocity       = random_float(140, 200),
774           direction      = random_angle(),
... [10 more lines]

Edit (E:/a327ex/emoji-aimer/main.lua)

The file E:/a327ex/emoji-aimer/main.lua has been updated successfully. (file state is current in your context — no need to Read it back)

Edit (E:/a327ex/emoji-aimer/main.lua)

The file E:/a327ex/emoji-aimer/main.lua has been updated successfully. (file state is current in your context — no need to Read it back)

Now collision detection in update. Place it before collection_update so springs visibly pulse this frame:

Edit (E:/a327ex/emoji-aimer/main.lua)

The file E:/a327ex/emoji-aimer/main.lua has been updated successfully. (file state is current in your context — no need to Read it back)

Now camera-attach the UI layers. Wrap the entire UI draw section.

Grep (camera_detach(main_camera, game_layer))

1795:  camera_detach(main_camera, game_layer)
1796-
1797-  -- HUD chips stacked vertically along the top of the LEFT side wall.
1798-  -- Drawn on ui_content_layer in white; the outline_shader pass below
1799-  -- adds the chunky black halo so the white text reads against the cream
1800-  -- wall behind it. Hidden during 'shop' so the shop overlay reads cleanly.

Edit (E:/a327ex/emoji-aimer/main.lua)

The file E:/a327ex/emoji-aimer/main.lua has been updated successfully. (file state is current in your context — no need to Read it back)

Now find the right spot to detach (just before the transition circle / cursor section):

Grep (-- Round-end wipe — yellow circle on transition_layer)

1920-  end
1921-
1922:  -- Round-end wipe — yellow circle on transition_layer (rendered last in

Read (E:/a327ex/emoji-aimer/main.lua)

1916     local nl_w = font_get_text_width('main', next_label)
1917        layer_text(ui_content_layer, next_label, fonts.main,
1918                   SHOP_NEXT_BTN_X + (SHOP_NEXT_BTN_W - nl_w)/2,
1919                   SHOP_NEXT_BTN_Y + (SHOP_NEXT_BTN_H - 11)/2, black())
1920      end
1921    
1922      -- Round-end wipe — yellow circle on transition_layer (rendered last in
1923      -- the composite, above the cursor). Radius is tweened directly on the
1924      -- transition table by start_round_end_transition's chained timer_tween.
1925      if transition.radius > 0 then
1926        layer_circle(transition_layer, transition.origin_x, transition.origin_y,
1927                     transition.radius, yellow())

Edit (E:/a327ex/emoji-aimer/main.lua)

The file E:/a327ex/emoji-aimer/main.lua has been updated successfully. (file state is current in your context — no need to Read it back)

Done:

  • 'target' tag registered, resource↔target collision enabled.
  • Targets get a static circle collider sized to TARGET_RADIUS, destroyed in target:destroy.
  • Each collision_entities_begin('resource', 'target') event pulls 'main' on the resource and 'hit' on the target by 0.15.
  • UI layers (ui_panel_layer + ui_content_layer) camera-attached for the whole UI block; overlay_layer, cursor_layer, transition_layer stay screen-locked.

Try it.

Perfect, let's end the session here, name it Emoji Aimer 3.

Skill (end-session Emoji Aimer 3)

Launching skill: end-session

[skill: end-session]

# End Session Workflow

This skill is invoked from the **same conversation** where the work was done. You already have the full session context in memory — you do NOT need to read the transcript.

## Step 1: Get Session Info

Ask the user for the **session title** (max 30 characters). Examples: "Anchor Phase 10 Part 5", "Physics Arena Setup", "Timer System Fix", "Thalien Lune Design".

**Determine the project yourself from your session context** — you know which repo(s) were worked on, which files were created/modified, and where they live. No need to ask. See Step 5 for the list of known project roots; if the session touched something outside the list, infer the root from the paths you actually edited.

## Step 2: Write Summary

Write the summary from your conversation memory. You have the full session context — no need to read any files.

The summary should be **thorough and detailed**. Each major topic deserves its own section with multiple specific bullet points. Don't compress — expand.

**Purpose:** These summaries serve as searchable records. Future Claude instances will grep through past logs to find how specific topics were handled. The more detail you include, the more useful the summary becomes for finding relevant context later.

Format (this is just an example structure — adapt sections to match what actually happened):

```markdown
# [Title]

## Summary

[1-2 sentence overview of the session's main focus]

**[Topic 1 - e.g., "Spring Module Implementation"]:**
- First specific detail about what was done
- Second detail - include file names, function names
- User correction or feedback (quote if notable)
- Technical decisions and why

**[Topic 2 - e.g., "Camera Research"]:**
- What was researched
- Key findings
- How it influenced implementation

**[Topic 3 - e.g., "Errors and Fixes"]:**
- Specific error message encountered
- Root cause identified
- How it was fixed

[Continue for each major topic...]

---

[Rest of transcript follows]
```

Rules:

- **Be thorough** — If in doubt, include more detail, not less. Each topic should be as detailed as possible while still being a summary.
- **Think searchability** — Future instances will search these logs. Include keywords, function names, error messages that someone might grep for.
- **One section per major topic** — Don't combine unrelated work into one section
- **Chronological order** — Sections should match conversation flow
- **Specific details** — Error messages, file names, function names, parameter values
- **Include user quotes** — When user gave notable feedback, quote it (e.g., "k/d variables are not intuitive at all")
- **Weight planning equally** — Research, proposals, alternatives considered, user feedback on approach are as important as implementation
- **Weight problems solved** — Errors, root causes, fixes, user corrections all matter
- **Technical specifics** — Include formulas, API signatures, parameter changes when relevant

## Step 3: Get User Approval

Show the title and summary to the user. Wait for approval before proceeding. If they have corrections, fix them.

## Step 4: Convert Transcript and Write the Log File

```bash
# Find recent sessions (Claude + Cursor + Codex). Same script lives in Anchor2:
python E:/a327ex/Anchor2/scripts/find-recent-session.py --limit 5
# or: python E:/a327ex/Anchor/scripts/find-recent-session.py --limit 5
```

The script shows sessions sorted by when they ended. The **first result** is the current conversation (since end-session was invoked here). Use it.

Use a lowercase hyphenated slug derived from the title (e.g., "anchor-primitives-hitstop-animation").

Get the end timestamp for the Date frontmatter — this is the wall-clock time when end-session was invoked, NOT the time the JSONL started. Sessions often span multiple days, and the log should be filed under the day the work was wrapped up:

```bash
date "+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"
```

Use this output verbatim. Do not substitute the JSONL start timestamp; the log appears in the sidebar sorted by Date, and a multi-day session with a Date pinned to day 1 will sort below sessions that ended later but started later, hiding the most recent work.

Convert the transcript to markdown:

```bash
python E:/a327ex/Anchor2/scripts/jsonl-to-markdown.py [SESSION_PATH] /tmp/session-log.md
# or: python E:/a327ex/Anchor/scripts/jsonl-to-markdown.py ...
```

The same script **auto-detects** Claude Code JSONL vs Cursor/Composer agent JSONL (`~/.cursor/projects/.../agent-transcripts/...`) vs Codex rollouts (`~/.codex/sessions/...`). For Composer sessions, use `find-recent-session.py` (it merges all sources) and pick the `[cursor]` line for the current chat.

Replace the default header (`# Session YYYY-MM-DD...`) at the top of `/tmp/session-log.md` with the approved title and summary, AND prepend frontmatter. The final file shape:

```markdown
Title: [Title]
Date: YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS

# [Title]

## Summary

[approved summary text from step 2]

---

[transcript content from jsonl-to-markdown script]
```

**Frontmatter is non-negotiable.** Every log file MUST start with `Title:` and `Date:` lines. Without them, the site's sidebar shows the slug as the title and 0 (epoch) as the sort date. The backfill script in `a327ex-site/deploy/backfill_metadata.py` is a safety net, not a substitute — write it correctly the first time.

Then copy the final file to the log destination:

```bash
cp /tmp/session-log.md E:/a327ex/a327ex-site/logs/[slug].md
```

## Step 5: Commit Project Repo

Identify the project repo(s) worked on this session from your own context — you already know which repos were touched and which files changed. For the common projects:

| Project | Root | Stage command |
|---|---|---|
| Anchor | `E:/a327ex/Anchor` | `git add docs/ framework/ engine/ scripts/ reference/` |
| Anchor2 | `E:/a327ex/Anchor2` | `git add framework/ engine/ arena/ reference/ scripts/ docs/ .claude/` |
| emoji-ball-battles | `E:/a327ex/emoji-ball-battles` | `git add -A` |
| orblike | `E:/a327ex/orblike` | `git add -A` |
| thalien-lune | `E:/a327ex/thalien-lune` | `git add -A` |
| a327ex-site | `E:/a327ex/a327ex-site` | `git add -A` (this IS one of the web repos — the log file added in Step 4 is staged here automatically) |

For a project not listed, infer the root from the files you actually created or modified this session and stage those. If multiple candidate roots look valid, ask the user which files to stage.

`cd` into the project root, stage, run `git status` to verify before committing.

**IMPORTANT — FULL SUMMARY IN COMMIT:** The commit message MUST include the FULL summary from the log file. Read the summary back from the log file to ensure nothing is missing.

**IMPORTANT — COMMIT METHOD:** The summary contains backticks, special characters, and markdown that WILL break heredocs and `git commit -m`. ALWAYS use the file-based method below. NEVER try a heredoc first — it will fail and produce a malformed commit that needs amending.

```bash
# Skip until we hit the line "## Summary", then take everything after the next
# blank line until the --- separator that precedes the transcript.
awk '/^## Summary$/{found=1; next} found && NR>1 && /^---$/{exit} found' \
    E:/a327ex/a327ex-site/logs/[slug].md > /tmp/commit_msg.txt

# Prepend the title (plain text, no #) and append attribution
sed -i "1i [Title]\n" /tmp/commit_msg.txt
printf "\nGenerated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code)\n\nCo-Authored-By: Claude <[email protected]>\n" >> /tmp/commit_msg.txt

git commit -F /tmp/commit_msg.txt
```

## Step 6: Push the Repos

Two pushes — project (to GitHub) and a327ex-site (to the VPS):

```bash
# Project repo to GitHub. Skip this push if the project IS a327ex-site
# (handled by the second push below — don't duplicate).
git push origin main

# a327ex-site to the VPS (post-receive hook restarts the Lua server).
cd E:/a327ex/a327ex-site
git add -A
git commit -m "[Title]"
git push prod main 2>&1 | tail -3
```

**Failure handling:** if either push fails, the other still happens. Local commits stay intact, so the user can re-push manually once they've fixed whatever blocked it. Don't roll back; the committed state on disk is the source of truth.

## Step 7: Confirm

Tell the user:

- Project commit hash + GitHub push result
- a327ex-site commit hash + VPS push result

Format:

```
Logged — "[Title]".
  project (Anchor2):  abc1234  pushed to GitHub
  a327ex-site:        ghi9012  pushed to a327ex.com (post-receive deployed)
```

If a push failed, surface that explicitly with the error.

## Notes

- **Frontmatter is non-negotiable.** Every log file MUST have `Title:` and `Date:` at the top. Enforced at write time in step 4. The backfill script is a safety net, not a substitute.
- **If the project IS `a327ex-site`** (e.g., you spent the session writing the renderer or fixing the theme), there's no separate "project repo to GitHub" push — the a327ex-site push at the end IS the project push. Don't duplicate.
- **Legacy note**: this skill used to also dual-write to `anchor.blot.im/logs/` and `anchor.blot.im/context/`. Post-cutover (May 2026), `anchor.blot.im` is a JS redirect to `a327ex.com` and no longer receives content. Drop those steps if you find any older docs that still reference them.


ARGUMENTS: Emoji Aimer 3

Here's the title and summary for review:


Title: Emoji Aimer 3

Project: emoji-aimer (E:/a327ex/emoji-aimer)


Emoji Aimer 3

Summary

UI overhaul session: built a chip-style HUD, restructured the screen into a square play area flanked by visible side walls, added per-resource collider shapes, then designed and iterated on a SNKRX-style yellow-circle round-end → shop transition. Resources also got physical collisions with targets.

Scope alignment up front:

  • Two AskUserQuestion calls confirmed: stay on the existing rails (no deck-builder, no cards, no random shops). Layout reference images (reference/ui_layout_*.png) used as aesthetic reference only — chip chrome borrowed, hand row / draft / deck builder ignored.
  • Read both prior session summaries (emoji-aimer-1.md, emoji-aimer-2.md) and the handover prompt at line 3633 of session 2's transcript.

HUD chip helper (draw_hud_chip):

  • New helper after roll_drops. Draws a cream rounded panel on ui_panel_layer + icon and text on ui_content_layer. Returns (chip_w, chip_h) so callers can stack.
  • Iterated heavily on dimensions: pad 3 → 6 → 3 → split into pad_x = 3 / pad_y = 5; icon 10 → 14; gap 3 → 4; vertical text nudged +1px to compensate for LanaPixel sitting high in its 11px box.
  • Initially used fonts.big (FatPixelFont @ 8) and black() text — user corrected: keep fonts.main (LanaPixel), text in white() so the outline shader's halo gives black-on-cream contrast.
  • Added min_text_w parameter — the timer chip passes font_get_text_width('main', '88:88') as the worst-case width so it doesn't twitch as digits change. Kills/gold chips left unstabilized for now (user can request the same).
  • Added gap override (5th arg) per chip — hourglass has ~2px built-in transparent right padding, bullseye + coin fill their bbox edge-to-edge, so kills/coin chips pass gap=6 to match the timer's visual icon→text spacing.

HUD layout reorganizations:

  • Started top-left horizontal stack at (4, 4): timer chip + ROUND text + kills text + gold text.
  • Iteration 1: replaced TIME line with chip, kept ROUND text and pushed lines down.
  • Iteration 2: added kills + gold chips, kept ROUND text plain between timer and kills.
  • Iteration 3: removed ROUND text entirely.
  • Iteration 4: introduced HUD_TOP_H = 30 / HUD_BOTTOM_H = 30 strip constants; chips moved to horizontal layout inside top strip; added crude semi-transparent red debug overlays on debug_layer showing both reserved zones; spawn area = [ARENA_X_MIN..MAX, HUD_TOP_H..gh-HUD_BOTTOM_H].
  • Iteration 5: added side_pad = 10, chip_gap = 10 (later both 8/6), bumped strip heights 30 → 40.
  • Iteration 6: removed debug strip overlay.

Floor introduction:

  • Bottom wall collider repositioned: top face now sits at y = gh - HUD_BOTTOM_H instead of just below the screen.
  • Added a visible white (later fg() cream) rectangle on game_layer filling the bottom HUD strip — outline shader gives the top a clean black wall-surface edge.
  • Added FLOOR_BLEED = 10 so the rect overflows on left/right/bottom past the screen, preventing the camera handcam (±2px translate + ±0.02 rad rotate) from exposing the sky behind it.
  • Added TARGET_HUD_MARGIN = 6 — buffer between target edges and HUD strip lines.

Debug AABB visualization:

  • Refactored wall creation to a create_wall(x, y, w, h) helper that maintains a parallel walls_aabb table with top-left + size for each wall (so the debug viz can outline them without poking at colliders).
  • Drew red wall outlines + green resource outlines on debug_layer, camera-attached so they line up with the world; mem tracker still draws unattached so it doesn't shake.
  • First attempt used color(255, 0, 255)() magenta and color(0, 255, 255)() cyan at line_width = 1 — user couldn't see them. Bumped to red() / green() palette globals at line_width = 2.
  • Eventually became per-shape: layer_circle_line for coins, layer_polygon_line for gems (vertices rotated by fx.rotation), layer_rectangle_line for crowns (with offset support). Found layer_polygon_line and layer_rectangle_line signatures in anchor/layer.lua.

Per-resource collider shapes:

  • Added RESOURCE_COLLIDER table keyed by kind: coin = circle (radius 9), gem = polygon, crown = box (w=20, h=17, offset_y=2).
  • resource:new branches on cd.shape to call collider(self, 'resource', 'dynamic', <shape>, ...).
  • All resources call set_fixed_rotation(false) so they tumble freely.
  • Crash fix: physics_add_polygon got nil because the collider constructor pops the last table arg as opts — for polygon, the vertices table IS the only shape arg. Fix: pass an explicit empty {} opts table after vertices.
  • Box shape supports offset_x / offset_y via physics_add_box opts; threaded through both collider creation and the debug viz.

Gem polygon iterations (the diamond shape):

  • {0, -6, 6, 0, 0, 6, -6, 0} (equilateral square rotated 45°) → user "looks like a small square".
  • {0, -4, 7, 0, 0, 7, -7, 0} — wider rhombus, asymmetric vertically.
  • {0, -7, 7, -1, 0, 6, -7, -1} — moved up 1px, top apex extended 2px taller.
  • {0, -8, 8, -1, 0, 7, -8, -1} — overall ~14% bigger.
  • {0, -10, 10, -1, 0, 9, -10, -1} — bigger again, +visual sizes 13 → 17.
  • User: "now it's right, but you've scaled the visuals up" — reverted RESOURCE_SIZES to 13/13/16, kept polygon big.
  • User: "still a rectangle ultimately. A polygon has 2 sides on the base, then 2 more smaller sides, then another at the top. It's 5 sides."
  • Final 5-vertex polygon: {-5, -8, 5, -8, 9, -3, 0, 9, -9, -3} (flat top, widest above center, pointy bottom).
  • Side vertices pushed out 1px: {-5, -8, 5, -8, 10, -3, 0, 9, -10, -3}.

Crown box iterations:

  • 14×9 → 14×15 → 16×15 → 18×15 + offset_y=-2 → +4 → 20×17 + offset_y=2.

Debug spawn keys:

  • Z = coin, X = gem, C = crown, all spawn at cursor position via mouse_position().
  • F2 toggles debug AABB overlay (debug_draw_visible), default off.

Square play area restructure:

  • Replaced HUD_TOP_H / HUD_BOTTOM_H with PLAY_AREA_SIZE = gh and SIDE_WALL_W = (gw - PLAY_AREA_SIZE)/2 = 105.
  • Renamed FLOOR_BLEED to WALL_BLEED.
  • Wall colliders repositioned: top + bottom now off-screen (invisible), left/right side walls have inner faces at SIDE_WALL_W and gw - SIDE_WALL_W.
  • Removed the floor visual; added two cream side-wall rectangles on game_layer bleeding past their outer screen edges.
  • HUD chips restructured from horizontal-top to vertical stack on top of the LEFT wall: stack_x = 8, stack_y = 8, chip_gap = 6.
  • Arena spawn bounds updated: ARENA_X_MIN = SIDE_WALL_W + TARGET_HUD_MARGIN, etc.
  • Targets spawn anywhere inside the 270×270 square, with 6px buffer from each wall.

Round-end → shop wipe transition (SNKRX TransitionEffect pattern):

  • Found TransitionEffect in SNKRX/shared.lua:453-489. Pattern: 0.25s pause → 0.6s linear expand to 1.2*gw → action → 0.3s mid hold → recenter → 0.6s linear shrink. Chained timer:after / timer:tween callbacks rather than manual phase counters.
  • First attempt: manual transition_phase / transition_timer globals + per-frame phase machine + distance_to_farthest_corner helper. Replaced with single transition table holding phase, radius, origin_x/y, timer = timer_new(). All motion lives in start_round_end_transition() via chained timer_after/timer_tween.
  • Constants: TRANSITION_IN_DURATION = 0.6, TRANSITION_MID_DURATION = 0.3, TRANSITION_OUT_DURATION = 0.4 (started 0.5, then 0.6 to match SNKRX, then user shortened), TRANSITION_FINAL_RADIUS = 1.2*gw (overshoots both possible origins).
  • Added dedicated transition_layer (with transition_outline partner) drawn AFTER cursor in the composite — yellow circle covers everything including cursor. Wired through outline shader pass like other layers.
  • Out phase origin: started at screen center, changed to mouse_position() per user. Easing went linear → cubic_in → cubic_out per user.
  • run_reset recreates transition.timer so chained callbacks abandon cleanly on R press during a wipe.

Round-end flow design (multiple iterations):

  • Initial: kill targets + auto-credit resources at trigger, immediately start transition.
  • User: "When you pause the game everything visually disappears" — reverted to vacuum behavior. Resources auto-vacuum to cursor (gated by game_state == 'cleared' in resource:update), transition only triggers when any_live_resource() returns false.
  • User questioned "How are you pausing right now?" — answered honestly: NOT pausing. The "pause" phase was just a timer_after delay; the empty arena was caused by killing targets at trigger.
  • Found Anchor's standard pause via engine_set_time_scale(0) (docs at Anchor2/docs/ENGINE_API.md:2165). Framework's update(dt) gets unscaled dt by design — to respect pause, multiply by time_scale global or call engine_get_dt(). Did NOT end up applying this.
  • User suggested keeping targets alive until circle covers screen, then later "Or rather, only kill them after the circle has already taken over the screen. But... You should be killing everything, the round itself, after the circle covers the screen, in that change from round to map, the targets should die. Why are they dying before?"
  • Final flow: kills hit target → game_state = 'cleared' (no kills, just state flip) → vacuum runs (alive targets sit there inert because clicks gated to 'playing') → last resource collected → start_round_end_transition() immediately (NO pause phase) → circle expands 0.6s → advance_round() at mid (kills alive targets/effects + swaps bg) → 0.3s mid hold → cursor-centered cubic_out shrink 0.4s.

Resource ↔ target collisions:

  • Registered new 'target' physics tag, enabled 'resource''target' collision.
  • Targets get static circle collider sized to TARGET_RADIUS = 12; target:destroy cleans it up.
  • collision_entities_begin('resource', 'target') events pull 'main' spring on resource and 'hit' spring on target by 0.15 each.

UI camera attachment:

  • Wrapped entire UI draw section (HUD chips + win/lose overlay + shop UI) in camera_attach(main_camera, ui_panel_layer) + camera_attach(main_camera, ui_content_layer) so chips wobble with the side walls under handcam.
  • overlay_layer (shop dim), cursor_layer, transition_layer deliberately NOT camera-attached so dim, cursor, and wipe stay screen-locked.

Misc:

  • Cleared a couple of failed Edits where the file had been modified between Read and Edit calls — re-read the section first, applied the change.
  • Iterated from cubic_outlinearcubic_incubic_out on the wipe-out easing.

Look good? Want any edits before I write the log file and commit?

Yes.

Bash (python E:/a327ex/Anchor2/scripts/find-recent-session.py --limit 5)

Exit code 1
2026-05-11T03:11:39.926Z b1cbeb96-7ab5-4881-bb7f-ec249ecfa0c8 [claude] <-- MOST RECENT

   C:\Users\adn\.claude\projects\E--a327ex\b1cbeb96-7ab5-4881-bb7f-ec249ecfa0c8.jsonl



2026-05-11T02:57:55.522Z 674f1db4-782b-4b6c-9449-e48ce4ed9059 [claude]

   C:\Users\adn\.claude\projects\E--a327ex\674f1db4-782b-4b6c-9449-e48ce4ed9059.jsonl



2026-05-11T01:40:23.351Z 84d9325f-cfc5-4ce3-902a-6feea142e3ba [claude]

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "E:\a327ex\Anchor2\scripts\find-recent-session.py", line 205, in <module>

  File "E:\a327ex\Anchor2\scripts\find-recent-session.py", line 200, in main

  File "C:\Users\adn\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python314\Lib\encodings\cp1252.py", line 19, in encode

UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character '\U0001f986' in position 11: character maps to <undefined>

Bash (date "+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")

<tool_use_error>Cancelled: parallel tool call Bash(python E:/a327ex/Anchor2/scripts/find-re…) errored</tool_use_error>

Bash (date "+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")

2026-05-11 00:12:11

Bash (python E:/a327ex/Anchor2/scripts/jsonl-to-markdown.py "C:\Users\adn.claude\proj...)

Written to C:/Users/adn/AppData/Local/Temp/session-log.md

3846 /tmp/session-log.md

Bash (head -3 /tmp/session-log.md)

# Session 2026-05-10 18:38



---

Bash ({ printf 'Title: Emoji Aimer 3\nDate: 2026-05-11 00:12:11\n\n# Emoji Aimer 3\n\n...)

3854 /tmp/session-log-final.md

Write (C:/Users/adn/AppData/Local/Temp/session-header.md)

<tool_use_error>File has not been read yet. Read it first before writing to it.</tool_use_error>

Bash (ls C:/Users/adn/AppData/Local/Temp/session-header.md 2>&1 || echo "missing")

C:/Users/adn/AppData/Local/Temp/session-header.md

Write (C:/Users/adn/AppData/Local/Temp/ea3-header.md)

File created successfully at: C:/Users/adn/AppData/Local/Temp/ea3-header.md (file state is current in your context — no need to Read it back)

Now concatenate header + transcript (skipping the auto header in the transcript):

Bash (cat /tmp/ea3-header.md > E:/a327ex/a327ex-site/logs/emoji-aimer-3.md && tail -n ...)

Title: Emoji Aimer 3
Date: 2026-05-11 00:12:11

# Emoji Aimer 3

## Summary

UI overhaul session: built a chip-style HUD, restructured the screen into a square play area flanked by visible side walls, added per-resource collider shapes, then designed and iterated on a SNKRX-style yellow-circle round-end → shop transition. Resources also got physical collisions with targets.
---
3949 E:/a327ex/a327ex-site/logs/emoji-aimer-3.md

Now commit the project repo (emoji-aimer):

Bash (cd E:/a327ex/emoji-aimer && git status)

On branch main
Your branch is up to date with 'origin/main'.

Changes not staged for commit:
  (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed)
  (use "git restore <file>..." to discard changes in working directory)
    modified:   main.lua

no changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit -a")

Bash (awk '/^## Summary$/{found=1; next} found && NR>1 && /^---$/{exit} found' E:/a327...)

104 /tmp/commit_msg.txt
Emoji Aimer 3


UI overhaul session: built a chip-style HUD, restructured the screen into a square play area flanked by visible side walls, added per-resource collider shapes, then designed and iterated on a SNKRX-style yellow-circle round-end → shop transition. Resources also got physical collisions with targets.

Bash (cd E:/a327ex/emoji-aimer && git add main.lua && git commit -F /tmp/commit_msg.tx...)

warning: in the working copy of 'main.lua', LF will be replaced by CRLF the next time Git touches it
[main a1d3ed2] Emoji Aimer 3
 1 file changed, 314 insertions(+), 49 deletions(-)
a1d3ed2

Push project to GitHub, then commit + push a327ex-site to VPS:

Bash (cd E:/a327ex/emoji-aimer && git push origin main 2>&1 | tail -5)

To github.com:a327ex/emoji-aimer.git
   25886f8..a1d3ed2  main -> main

Bash (cd E:/a327ex/a327ex-site && git add -A && git commit -m "Emoji Aimer 3" && git r...)

warning: in the working copy of 'logs/emoji-aimer-3.md', CRLF will be replaced by LF the next time Git touches it
[main 4cb3712] Emoji Aimer 3
 1 file changed, 3949 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 logs/emoji-aimer-3.md
4cb3712
remote: Already on 'main'        
remote: [post-receive] restarting a327ex.service        
remote: [post-receive] deployed at 2026-05-11T03:17:32Z        
To ssh://a327ex/srv/a327ex.git
   603dbd4..4cb3712  main -> main

Logged — "Emoji Aimer 3".

  • project (emoji-aimer): a1d3ed2 pushed to GitHub
  • a327ex-site: 4cb3712 pushed to a327ex.com (post-receive deployed)