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docs: drifts and the controller; screenshots retaken
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Should they fade with time? -**Named and not yet built.** -- **Snow drifts**: snow lying on the ice in streaks blown by the wind, building up in - a blizzard. They would want to slow a skater and deaden the ice's sound where they - lie, which is the "bad ice" of the first description of this app. +- **Snow drifts** (2026-10-10): snow lying on the ice in streaks down the lake's wind, + under falling snow and more in a blizzard. A drift slows the skater to about half + speed and takes the ring out of the ice: the "bad ice" of the first description of + this app. Still to judge: is half speed too much of a penalty for a relaxing skate, + and are there too many drifts in a blizzard to find a way between? **Further ideas, none started**: a moon and its phase; mist that thins and thickens; dawn; how wooded and how hilly the banks are; the colour of the aurora; birds; a far @@ -280,10 +281,12 @@ falls through and nothing is scored. Falling is written and switched off (`RULES one is a maybe, as an option beside the relaxed one and never instead of it. Ideas: time spent on singing ice, distance without falling, a set course against the clock. -### Game controller +### Game controller — built, not tried with one -Postponed. `~/code/flight/src/utils/input.ts` already reads gamepads and is the place to -start. +Either stick or the direction buttons steer; Y or triangle goes to another lake; X or +square turns the sound on and off (2026-10-10). The stick's mapping is tested; no +controller has been connected to it. To judge with one in hand: the 15% rest in the +middle of the stick, and whether the buttons are the right ones. ### Multiplayer diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 9d1f224..ff7ea3e 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -158,7 +158,15 @@ address asks for a time whatever the settings say. | Snow | falling quietly | 420 m | mostly cloud | 0.5 to 3 m/s | 26% | | Blizzard | thick, and driven | 200 m | all cloud | 7 to 16 m/s, in gusts | 10% | -Snow is a box of flakes that stays round the skater (`src/render/snow.ts`): they fall, +**Snow that falls lies, in drifts** (`src/render/drifts.ts`): long pale streaks on the +ice, all running the way that lake's wind blows, a few of them under falling snow and +many in a blizzard. A drift is the lake's bad ice. In the middle of one a skater is +dragged at four times as hard as on ice and slows to about half speed; the ice under +it does not ring to a strike or sing to the glide, and the blade shushes instead. Bare +ice between the drifts is as fast and as loud as ever, so in a blizzard there is a +reason to pick a way. + +Snow in the air is a box of flakes that stays round the skater (`src/render/snow.ts`): they fall, the wind carries them, and they stream past as the skater moves, which is most of what makes a blizzard feel fast. Each lake's wind blows from a direction of its own. The wind can be heard, louder and higher in its gusts. Cloud hides the stars, the aurora and @@ -167,6 +175,11 @@ address asks for a weather whatever the settings say. <img src="docs/screenshots/snow.png" alt="Snow falling over the lake by day" width="640" /> +**A game controller** works as well: either stick or the direction buttons steer, Y or +triangle goes to another lake, and X or square turns the sound on and off. It needs no +setting up beyond being connected, though a browser shows a page a controller only +once one of its buttons has been pressed. + Steering turns the skater: the harder the steer, the tighter the curve, up to a circle 16 m in radius, with a moment to lean into it. Held over, the skater turns right round and can skate back up the lake, or round and round; that needs open water, about 24 m @@ -345,6 +358,8 @@ measured the spreading directly, with instruments on the ice. of noise at its note, starting a little high and falling onto it, then dying away. - **The hum and the scrape**: the gliding blade keeps the note faintly alive and hisses. - **The wind**, when there is one: low, loose noise, louder and higher in its gusts. +- **Snow under the blade**, in a drift: a soft, low shush in place of the ring, the hum + and the scrape. - **The cracks**: every few seconds the ice cracks somewhere between 40 and 600 m off, and the chirp for that distance and that thickness arrives. 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