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Groundwork for a self-contained games collection under public/games/: - engine/core.js: math/easing helpers, seeded RNG, localStorage-backed shared settings, DPR-aware letterboxed canvas, fixed-step (1/120s) simulation loop with spiral-of-death guard, and a scene stack that supports transparent overlay scenes for pause/dialogs. - engine/input.js: named-action bindings over keyboard, pointer, gamepad and on-screen touch controls (virtual stick + buttons), so gameplay code never touches raw key codes. No build step and no runtime dependencies; both files are plain scripts that work when served statically or opened directly. Parked here pending an architecture decision on whether the games are built on this hand-rolled base or on an external stack (Pixi/three + Rapier + Howler), which would replace most of the engine layer. Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Groundwork for a self-contained games collection under
public/games/. Two plain scripts, no build step, no runtime dependencies — they work served statically by the existing Expresspublic/middleware or opened directly from disk.What's here
public/games/engine/core.js(211 LOC) — math/easing helpers, seeded RNG,localStorage-backed settings shared across games, DPR-aware letterboxed canvas scaling, a fixed-step (1/120s) simulation loop with a spiral-of-death guard, and a scene stack with transparent overlay scenes for pause/dialog screens.public/games/engine/input.js(180 LOC) — named-action bindings layered over keyboard, pointer, gamepad and on-screen touch controls (virtual stick + buttons), so gameplay code never touches raw key codes.Status
Draft, and deliberately parked. This is the hand-rolled branch of an open architecture decision: build the games on this base, or on an external stack (Pixi/three + Rapier + Howler) that would replace most of this engine layer with imports.
The trade-off in short: the hand-rolled path costs ~1000 LOC of engine before any gameplay and caps out at stylized 2D, but ships ~60KB with zero deps and no build. The library path frees the whole budget for gameplay and raises the fidelity ceiling (3D, skeletal animation, real physics), at the cost of ~1–2MB of runtime and a build step this repo does not currently have.
Nothing downstream depends on these files yet, so they are safe to drop wholesale if the decision goes the other way.
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