debug: SR_FORCE_ARENA_IDS to pin a gauntlet floor's arena line-up - #43
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Art and QA passes on the replay arenas were awkward: the floor rolls
random arenas and persists them, so hitting a specific arena meant
relaunching until it came up.
DEBUG-only env hook that forces an exact line-up and wins over the
persisted picks, so a launch is reproducible:
SIMCTL_CHILD_SR_FORCE_ARENA_IDS=arena_08,arena_09 \
xcrun simctl launch <udid> com.hexwireaaron.game
Ids are validated against ArenaPool, so a typo or an unknown id falls
through to the normal random roll rather than producing an empty floor.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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DEBUG-only #if DEBUG hook, validated against ArenaPool, CI green across hygiene, tests, Debug/Release, and unsigned archive. Squash-merging.
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A DEBUG-only env hook that makes art/QA passes on the replay arenas reproducible.
Why
A gauntlet floor rolls random arenas and persists them, so checking a specific arena's background meant relaunching until it happened to come up. With 20 arenas that's slow.
What
SR_FORCE_ARENA_IDSforces an exact line-up and wins over the persisted picks:Safety
#if DEBUG— cannot affect a Release build.ArenaPool; unknown ids are filtered out, and if nothing valid remains it falls through to the normal random roll. A typo can't produce an empty floor.Follows the existing
SR_AUTOSTART_MISSION_IDdebug-hook pattern.Validation
Used throughout the arena art pass — pinned line-ups loaded exactly as specified, and the log confirms the resolution (
SR_FORCE_ARENA_IDS → ["arena_08", "arena_09"]).Code-only; no files added/removed, so no XcodeGen regeneration needed.
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