- Full-screen RESEARCH window: looping archive feed, category tabs, branching
DAG tech tree (top-down layout), per-tech dossier + RESEARCH button, deck
progress bar
- Pure rules layer (ResearchModel / ResearchState) is Node-testable; the
window is a passive view and GameScene owns effects, toasts, and saves
- First category **Exploration** (Tether Level 1–4, Tether Anchoring, Signal
Amplification) lives in data/research/exploration.json; adding a category
= one JSON file + one registry line + one manifest line
- Effects seam: `tether.level` grows the home tether via TetherField.setLevel;
`capability` flags land on scene.researchCapabilities for future systems
- Save/restore round-trips an in-flight project (remainingMs captured at save,
startedAt rebuilt on load); old saves without research still load
- Dev tooling: dev/cdp-shot.mjs (CDP screenshot with readiness wait),
dev/research-shot.html/.mjs (boots the console + starts a run for a shot)
- Assets: gasgiant planet frame 03, takeoff/landing clips, research-computer
feed; planets.png/.psd updated
- Add MineralHud component (js/ui/MineralHud.js) showing "MINERALS n / N"
plus a fill bar in the upper-right corner, replacing the old tether
stack. One tween drives both the counting number and the bar so they
never drift; a cyan flash ripples on landings; amber at capacity.
- Wire Mining to emit an onOre(gained, hold) seam per extraction tick and
per fragment landing so the HUD fills live as the rock shrinks, not
only at the batch 'absorbed' event.
- Remove refreshTetherHud / fmtRange from GameScene; instantiate MineralHud
in create(), feed it via refreshMineralHud() from ore seams and mining
events, destroy on shutdown.
- Add data/mineralhud.json config (corner pad, bar geometry, count-up and
flash tuning) and register it in the manifest.
- Tests: new dev/mineral-hud.test.mjs covering layout, count-up/bar sync,
superseded-tween guard, capacity/clamping, teardown; extend
dev/mining.test.mjs to assert onOre ticks; drop tether-HUD checks from
dev/system-hud.test.mjs; add setOrigin/setScrollFactor no-ops to the
Phaser stub.
- New shared audio voices: js/utils/Sfx.js (playSfxOn/stopSfxOn/sfxPlayingOn)
and js/utils/Music.js (loop voice + shuffle playlist), both with v4 guard
rails (cache.audio.has, stopByKey, isPlaying) so missing assets never throw.
- data/music.json: menu loop, shuffled deep-space soundtrack for GameScene,
and per-world surface loops keyed by planets.png frame; new mp3 assets in
assets/music/.
- data/sfx.json: add ui_hover/ui_click/ui_window/ui_close/mining_loop and a
dedicated scan track; wire UI components (buttons, panels, popups, save
vault) to the shared voice via scene.playSfx seam.
- GameScene: start/stop the shuffle on create/shutdown, stop both soundtrack
and mining hum on 'sleep' (landing launch+sleep) and resume on 'wake';
mining hum loops while beam is live and stops quietly on 'stopped'.
- SurfaceScene: preload and loop the world's track from landing through
takeoff; fix landing frame hand-off to pass sheetFrame instead of the
texture Frame object.
- MenuScene: preload SFX + menu music, start the menu hum in create, stop it
on the 'shutdown' event (v4 never calls shutdown() on transition).
- data/ship.json → stats: hullIntegrity/shields/cargoHold/mineralStorage,
exposed as ship.stats for future combat/trading/mining systems.
- Tests: dev/sfx.test.mjs and dev/music.test.mjs cover the shared voices,
guards, and data contracts; ship-behavior and system-hud tests extended
for base stats and the mining hum lifecycle.
- Click a rock to open a world-anchored mining popup (Mine/Stop/Cancel)
- Mining state machine locks the ship during the ~1.5 s arm extension, then fires an animated beam with ore motes, shock rings, sparks, and periodic surges
- ESC breaks the beam or closes the menu; outside clicks dismiss without flying
- Generalize the top-center console toast so discovery, tether, and mining calls share one slot
- Add a "mining" SFX entry (system-scan.mp3) and update preload/test to cover all configured sounds
- Ship a headless browser test (dev/mining-test.*) that drives the full arm sequence through the real input pipeline
- SaveManager: 10-slot localStorage bank (put/get/clear/list/export), corrupt-bank recovery, failed-write surfacing, bulk JSON export
- SaveData: captureState / prepareLoad / consumeRestore / resetRunState — seed + player state round-trip through a shared registry
- MenuSubBar: fold-up drawer off the deck's MENU button (Save Game / Load Game / Return to Main Menu) with animated open/close
- SavePanel: 10-slot pop-up in save or load mode; overwrite + load confirm dialogs; "download all" bulk export; toast feedback
- ConfirmOverlay: split-open confirm dialog for destructive actions
- SlotCard, Toast: per-slot cards and inline feedback strips
- MenuScene: Load Game button (grayed while bank is empty) opens the same panel in load mode
- GameScene: menu sub-bar + save panel wired into deck action, ESC handling, input blocking while modal, applyRestore on scene boot
- Tether HUD moved from above the MENU button to upper-right corner, stacking downward
- MenuButton: disabled (grayed) state and screenFixed option for scrolling-camera UI
- New SFX assets (ui-click, ui-hover) + updated existing FX; gasgiant planet image
- Dev tooling: cdp-firefox.mjs, wdshot.mjs (headless Firefox via geckodriver), saves-ui-test.html/.mjs (integration driver), saves.test.mjs (Node unit tests), system-hud test updates
- Add sound effects (construct, deconstruct, discovery) with config in data/sfx.json; play on dossier arrival/fold and new-object discovery; silently no-op when disabled or asset missing
- Rework the system dossier into a full lifecycle: open-by-default on arrival, one-shot auto-fold at 10 s, click-to-toggle (name + caret), reverse deconstruction order, state caret that swings with the open/closed state
- Add ScrambleDecode `reverse` mode so lines can deconstruct (value → static → '') for the fold animation
- Reposition the tether readout to bottom-right above the deck's MENU button, right-aligned and bottom-anchored; fall back to left column when the deck is disabled
- Expand decode and system-hud tests to cover reverse decode, the full dossier lifecycle (toggle, auto-fold cancellation, mid-animation guard), tether HUD layout, and SFX wiring
- New `js/utils/Decode.js` with a pure `ScrambleDecode` class plus
`DECODE_CHARS`, `DECODE_DURATION`, and a per-line `decodeDur()` helper,
so one effect serves both scenes.
- MenuScene now delegates its seed scramble to the shared utility instead
of inlining the reveal math and alphabet.
- GameScene's system dossier types itself in on arrival: each line starts
empty and decodes left-to-right, staggered top-to-bottom, with the
timeline anchored on the first update frame; state self-clears once all
lines settle so `update()` pays nothing afterward.
- Add Node dev tests for the shared effect contract (`dev/decode.test.mjs`)
and for the real GameScene dossier decode against actual galaxy/report
data with a stubbed scene (`dev/system-hud.test.mjs`).
- Document both new test commands in the README and update the planets
PSD asset.
Brian Fertig