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feat(menu): animated how-to-play cards for every game - #97
No tracking issue for this work. The music follow-up it turned up is #98.
Visitors pick a game at the booth and start playing without knowing the goal or the controls. Each game now opens with a short, animated how-to-play card the first time a visitor enters it.
Pages. Each card has 3–4 pages: Your goal, Controls, Tips, and a Zero gravity page for Orbital Ops. Dots show the current page.
Animated scenes. Every page except Controls loops a short scene made from the game's own sprites: Hoppy swiping the level boss and landing on MERGE, swiping a glitch critter, rising and sinking in zero-G, crossing a laser while it's off, hopping across crumbling branches, comboing Code City soldiers and AI Slop sprites, and a REVIEW burst. Each scene is drawn the way the game draws it, using the same backdrop and floor line, the same foot pivots and in-game scales, and with enemies facing Hoppy. The runner is 3D, so its pages pan across its menu screenshots.
Controls. Keyboard and controller columns sit side by side. Controller buttons use the connected pad's names (Cross, A or B for the bottom button), or "A / Cross" when no pad is connected. Each row has a small animated Hoppy doing that move. tests/how_to_play.gd checks every key and pad input shown against the input map.
Paging. Jump, attack, confirm, a click or a touch turns to the next page, and on the last page starts the game. ←/→ flip back and forth; Esc or Start skips to the game. Presses in the first 0.5 s are ignored, so the press that picked the game can't skip the card.
Booth-safe. Each page turns by itself after 7 s, so a card lasts at most 28 s. The 90 s idle reset keeps counting under the card. The card swallows input until the game is handed back, so the closing press never makes Hoppy jump. If focus loss paused the game, it stays in its pause menu.
Pause menus. The platformer levels, the runner and both beat 'em ups have a How to Play button in their pause menu that shows the card again.
Two gameplay fixes came up while checking the cards against the games:
Bay Area Blitz has no stomping. Touching a bug or the boss from any side, including landing on it, now costs a heart; only a swipe hurts them. The old stomp only counted inside a 20 px band, so it almost never worked.
Heroes vs. Villains REVIEW no longer looks like a hit. Its protection reused the post-hit blink. It now has its own guard timer: Hoppy glows mint without blinking, the burst is mint and drawn under the actors, and stunned enemies turn blue. Firing REVIEW never cost HP; a new test proves it.
Three more fixes, found while running the games after merging main:
Endless runner: no footsteps while the how-to-play card is up. The runner's audio keeps processing under the card's pause.
Platformer levels: the hub music no longer plays under the level music after the pause menu or the card. Unpausing the tree also un-paused the hub track, which the levels hold paused.
Bay Area Blitz: the background houses and fog no longer pop in at the right edge. The repeating strips drew one copy per side, which left a gap on a 1280 px screen.
Testing
Full suite passes: 65 passed, 0 failed, 8 skipped.
tests/how_to_play.gd covers:
every gameplay route has a card;
every key and pad input shown is bound to its row's actions;
every sprite clip and image a card uses exists;
every page builds and its scene plays;
enemies face Hoppy;
the once-per-visitor rule, paging, auto-advance, booth idle, focus loss and the pause-menu buttons;
the press that starts the game doesn't make Hoppy jump.
tests/platformer_smoke.gd checks that landing on a bug costs a heart and leaves the bug standing. This check fails on the old stomp code. It also checks that the hub music stays paused after a pause and resume, and that every Bay background strip covers a 21:9 screen. Both checks fail without the fixes.
tests/how_to_play.gd checks that no footsteps play under the runner's card. This check fails without the fix.
tests/heroes_villains_logic.gd checks that REVIEW costs no HP and causes no stagger, that hits can't land during it, that Hoppy glows without the blink, that stunned enemies turn blue, and that the mint burst sits on the floor layer.
Checked in a windowed --always-on-top launch; a headless pass confirmed every actor's feet land on the floor line.
Screenshots / video
Captured from a windowed run; the images are in docs/previews/how-to-play/. The scenes animate in the game.
Bay Area Blitz: your goal
Bay Area Blitz: controls
Orbital Ops: zero gravity
Enchanted Repo: your goal
Code City Brawl: your goal
Heroes vs. Villains: REVIEW tip
Endless Runner: your goal
Checklist
The PR title follows Conventional Commits (feat(menu): ...)
Added or updated tests for changed behavior
New or changed assets are listed in ASSETS_LICENSES.md with a redistributable license. Does not apply: the cards reuse the games' existing sprites and backdrops, and the PR adds no new art or audio. The screenshots in docs/previews/ are captures of the game.
Docs in docs/ are updated if behavior or controls changed
Summary by CodeRabbit
New Features
Added animated, multi-page How to Play guides that appear on first entry to games and can be reopened from pause menus.
Guides include gameplay tips, controls, animated demos, and keyboard or controller prompts. Pages advance with player input or automatically every seven seconds.
Updated REVIEW with brief damage protection and clearer visual feedback.
Bug Fixes
Platformer enemy contact now costs a heart, including contact from above; enemies can no longer be damaged by stomping.
Documentation
Updated game instructions with current controls and gameplay details, including pause keys.
Each game now opens with a short how-to-play card the first time a
visitor enters it. A card is 3-4 pages: Your goal, Controls (keyboard
and controller side by side, each row with a small Hoppy acting out the
move), Tips, and a Zero gravity page for Orbital Ops. Scene pages loop a
short scene built from the game's own sprites, placed like the game
draws them: same backdrop and floor line, sprite foot pivots, in-game
scales, and enemies facing Hoppy. The runner uses its menu screenshots.
Jump, attack or confirm turns the page and starts the game from the
last page; left/right flip pages; pause skips. Pages turn by themselves
every 7 s, so a booth never waits on a card or misses its idle reset.
The card swallows input until the game is handed back, so the closing
press never jumps. Each pause menu has a How to Play button.
Also:
- Bay Area Blitz has no stomping: touching a bug or the boss from any
side costs a heart, and only a swipe hurts them.
- Heroes vs. Villains REVIEW never looks like a hit: its protection no
longer uses the post-hit blink, Hoppy glows mint, the burst is mint
and drawn under the actors, and stunned enemies turn blue.
- Platformer tests find Retry by reference, not menu position.
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The pull request adds route-specific animated how-to-play cards for six games. Cards support timed pages, input guidance, first-entry display, and pause-menu access. The changes also adjust platformer contact damage and session behavior, and update Heroes vs. Villains REVIEW protection and visuals.
Changes: How-to-Play Cards
Layer / File(s)
Summary
Card data and first-entry routing hoppys-adventure-arcade/app/how_to_play_data.gd, hoppys-adventure-arcade/app/app_router.gd
Route data defines instructions, controls, and demo descriptors for six games. AppRouter tracks eligible game routes and opens a card after qualifying scene changes.
Card lifecycle and input hoppys-adventure-arcade/app/how_to_play.gd, hoppys-adventure-arcade/app/controller_service.gd
Cards support start and pause modes, timed pages, navigation, and dismissal. Start-mode closing checks scene and pause state before resuming. Card input is forwarded to the router and controller service.
Animated game demos hoppys-adventure-arcade/app/how_to_play_demo.gd
The renderer builds animated scenes from game assets and a screenshot slideshow for the runner.
Supported pause menus reopen cards. Tests cover card content, input mappings, demos, paging, booth behavior, focus handling, and pause access. Documentation describes the cards and game controls.
Platformer Contact and Session Behavior
Layer / File(s)
Summary
Contact rules and verification hoppys-adventure-arcade/modes/platformer/enemy.gd, hoppys-adventure-arcade/modes/platformer/merge_monster.gd, hoppys-adventure-arcade/tests/platformer_smoke.gd, docs/bay-area-blitz.md
Enemy contact damages Hoppy from any direction, including landing. Landing no longer damages or bounces the enemy. The smoke test checks landing behavior, and the documentation describes contact and swipe rules.
Pause, audio, and scene coverage hoppys-adventure-arcade/modes/platformer/level.gd, hoppys-adventure-arcade/scenes/platformer/bay_area_blitz.gd, hoppys-adventure-arcade/scenes/runner/audio/runner_audio.gd, hoppys-adventure-arcade/tests/platformer_smoke.gd, hoppys-adventure-arcade/tests/platformer_boss.gd, hoppys-adventure-arcade/tests/platformer_knockout.gd, hoppys-adventure-arcade/tests/menu_return_layout.gd
The level saves and restores the hub music process mode. Bay Area Blitz sets parallax repeat counts, and runner footsteps stop while paused. Tests check the music and background behavior and use stored retry-button references.
Heroes vs. Villains REVIEW
Layer / File(s)
Summary
Protection and visual effects hoppys-adventure-arcade/modes/beatem_up/reinvent/player.gd, hoppys-adventure-arcade/modes/beatem_up/reinvent/enemy.gd, hoppys-adventure-arcade/modes/beatem_up/reinvent/game.gd, hoppys-adventure-arcade/tests/heroes_villains_logic.gd, docs/heroes-vs-villains.md
REVIEW uses a separate guard timer and mint glow instead of ordinary hit protection. The burst appears on the ground layer, stunned enemies turn blue, and tests check protection and visuals.
Architecture concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.
Review details
Systems and components
observed — hoppys-adventure-arcade (service) was modified; 26 changed files map to changed impact.
observed — docs (service) was modified; 8 changed files map to changed impact.
observed — README.md (service) was modified; 1 changed file maps to changed impact.
Before / after behavior
observed — Modified behavior in README.md: The Pause row adds P as a keyboard option, retaining Escape and the Start controller binding. A new paragraph describes the How to Play card, its page-turn and skip controls, automatic turns every seven seconds, and how to reopen it from the pause menu.
observed — Modified behavior in docs/bay-area-blitz.md: The controls documentation adds W for jumping and P for pausing, states that enemy contact from any side—including landing—costs a heart and that swiping is the only way to hurt a bug, and documents the how-to-play card on level entry and from the pause menu. This replaces the prior statement that landing on an enemy deals damage and bounces Hoppy.
observed — Modified behavior in docs/bay-area-blitz.md: The completion instruction is unchanged. The implemented-feature list removes stomping from the listed connected features.
observed — Modified behavior in docs/bay-area-blitz.md: The implemented city route description is unchanged.
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The title "feat(menu): animated how-to-play cards for every game" matches the main change: a new animated how-to-play card that opens the first time a visitor enters each game. It follows Conventional Commits and is concise. The title does not mention the Bay Area Blitz stomp removal or the Heroes vs. Villains REVIEW change, but the description and objectives present those as secondary fixes, which a title does not need to cover.
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The description follows the template's Summary, Testing, Screenshots / video, and Checklist sections. It explains the how-to-play cards, the Bay Area Blitz stomp removal, the REVIEW guard timer, and three follow-up fixes. It lists the test commands and results, includes screenshots from docs/previews/how-to-play/, and marks each checklist item. Two gaps remain. The Summary links no issue ("No tracking issue for this work"), which the template asks for with "Closes #123". The Testing section gives the full-suite result but no exact command for it, and does not list a command for the headless checks. The description is complete enough to pass, and both gaps are non-critical.
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Review comments at @hoppys-adventure-arcade/app/how_to_play.gd:
- Around line 142-145: Update _notification to clear _focus_lost when receiving
NOTIFICATION_APPLICATION_FOCUS_IN, so the START-mode countdown resumes after
focus returns. Extend the focus_loss_keeps_the_pause_menu test to assert that
the countdown resumes after the focus-in notification.
- Around line 155-160: Update is_next to accept pointer advances only from
pressed left-mouse-button events and pressed screen-touch events, rejecting
emulated-device events in both paths so one tap triggers at most one page
change; preserve the existing echo and NEXT_ACTIONS handling.
Review comments at @hoppys-adventure-arcade/modes/beatem_up/reinvent/player.gd:
- Line 129: Update the `body.modulate` visual logic so invulnerability blinking
does not alter alpha while `review_guard` is positive, preserving the REVIEW
glow; keep the existing blink behavior when the guard is inactive. Update the
relevant test to activate REVIEW while `invulnerable` is still positive and
verify the glow remains visible.
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…nder REVIEW
- The how-to-play countdown resumes when the window regains focus; before,
one focus loss froze it for the card's life.
- Only a left click or a real touch turns a page. The wheel, right-click
and Godot's touch-emulated mouse click no longer do, so one tap turns
one page.
- Firing REVIEW inside a post-hit window shows the mint glow without the
hit blink.
Addresses CodeRabbit review on #97.
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- Around line 371-375: Update the synthetic input sequences in this test to
release each pressed mouse and touch event by parsing and flushing its
corresponding release event. Ensure cleanup runs even if a check fails,
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Each mouse and touch press the how-to-play test sends is now followed by
its release, so no button or touch stays held into later checks.
Addresses CodeRabbit review on #97.
tap(KEY_SPACE) releases Space before the handoff, so this test cannot catch a regression that affects a held closing press. Add a separate case that holds Space through handed_back(), checks that the player does not jump, and then releases Space to isolate later tests.
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Review comment at @hoppys-adventure-arcade/tests/how_to_play.gd around lines 314
- 320:
The current `tap(KEY_SPACE)` in the last-page handoff test releases Space before
control returns, so it does not cover a held closing press. Add a separate case
that holds Space across `handed_back()`, verifies the player does not jump, then
releases Space before later tests run.
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- Around line 314-320: The current `tap(KEY_SPACE)` in the last-page handoff
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Adds a case that keeps Space held after the last page starts the game and
checks Hoppy doesn't jump, then releases it.
Addresses CodeRabbit review on #97.
…p-in
Unpausing the tree un-paused the hub track under the level, so the menu music played
in-game after the pause menu or the how-to-play card. Bay's parallax strips drew one
copy per side, leaving the screen's right edge bare until a house popped in.
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Summary
No tracking issue for this work. The music follow-up it turned up is #98.
Visitors pick a game at the booth and start playing without knowing the goal or the controls. Each game now opens with a short, animated how-to-play card the first time a visitor enters it.
tests/how_to_play.gdchecks every key and pad input shown against the input map.Two gameplay fixes came up while checking the cards against the games:
Three more fixes, found while running the games after merging
main:Testing
tests/how_to_play.gdcovers:tests/platformer_smoke.gdchecks that landing on a bug costs a heart and leaves the bug standing. This check fails on the old stomp code. It also checks that the hub music stays paused after a pause and resume, and that every Bay background strip covers a 21:9 screen. Both checks fail without the fixes.tests/how_to_play.gdchecks that no footsteps play under the runner's card. This check fails without the fix.tests/heroes_villains_logic.gdchecks that REVIEW costs no HP and causes no stagger, that hits can't land during it, that Hoppy glows without the blink, that stunned enemies turn blue, and that the mint burst sits on the floor layer.--always-on-toplaunch; a headless pass confirmed every actor's feet land on the floor line.Screenshots / video
Captured from a windowed run; the images are in
docs/previews/how-to-play/. The scenes animate in the game.Checklist
feat(menu): ...)ASSETS_LICENSES.mdwith a redistributable license. Does not apply: the cards reuse the games' existing sprites and backdrops, and the PR adds no new art or audio. The screenshots indocs/previews/are captures of the game.docs/are updated if behavior or controls changedSummary by CodeRabbit
New Features
Bug Fixes
Documentation