- Introduce StationFrames.js galaxy-wide pass that spreads spacestations.png
variant frames across the galaxy, avoiding collisions among neighbor stars
- Stamp settlement.stationFrame in SystemGenerator so content carries the
assigned variant (lazy === eager)
- Render deep-space stations from the spritesheet when available; keep
procedural fallback for waypoints and missing textures
- Extend comms target with isStation/frame and allow REQUEST LANDING on
deep-space stations, passing station flag into SurfaceScene
- Add landing.stationVideos entries and music.stationFrames slots keyed by
variant frame; surface/shop clips degrade gracefully until authored
- Add dev tooling: station-shot page/runner for world/panel/land/deck states
and a Node test asserting variant spread beats naive random assignment
- 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.
Brian Fertig