joshuaandClaude Opus 5.5
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Add ten new games (18 in total) and the engine features they need. Story: Dead Air, The Masquerade at Montague House, The Kalahari Expedition, The Alchemist's Vault, Submerged: Deep Lab Nereid, The Kestrel Bank Job. Games can now set their own hint penalty and a hard time limit, shown as a countdown; running out ends the game with the fail ending. Defuse: Tick Tock: Overtime. Manuals are now rulesets, so each game has its own solver. Adds indicator lights, per-level strike limits, and the Passwords, Morse Light and Say It Back modules. Sync: In Sync: Deep Cuts. Adds telepathy (typed word) and ranking rounds, and a per-round bar for the key. Labyrinth: The Drowned Catacombs and The Mirror Maze. Adds one-way gates, a relative (no compass) Explorer, a mirrored Navigator map, and mazes with a lantern count other than three. Validation now rejects a maze where a gate can leave the Explorer stuck. Difficulty runs from 1 to 5. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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95 lines
4.0 KiB
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id: mirror-maze
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engine: labyrinth
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category: co-op
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title: The Mirror Maze
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tagline: The map is backwards. Your partner can't tell north from left. Seven traps. Good luck.
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estimatedMinutes: 30
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difficulty: 5
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players: { min: 2, max: 2 }
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theme: { primary: "#5f0f40", accent: "#c0fdff", background: "#07040a", headingFont: "Playfair Display" }
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roles:
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A:
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name: Navigator
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blurb: You hold the only map of the maze. It was copied from a mirror, so it's flipped left to right.
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B:
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name: Explorer
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blurb: You're inside a hall of mirrors. You have no compass, only forward, back, left and right.
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intro: |
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An abandoned carnival on the edge of town. Its famous **Mirror Maze** has four **glass lanterns** hidden inside.
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Legend says couples who carry all four out together never lose each other.
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☠️ **Nightmare rules:**
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- **Explorer:** you have no compass. Your controls are **Forward / Left / Right / Back**, relative to the way you're facing.
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Whenever you move, you turn to face that way.
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- **Navigator:** the only surviving map was **traced from a mirror**. Everything on it is flipped **left to right**.
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- Some carvings appear **twice** in the maze. Don't trust a single glyph.
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- **Seven** hidden traps. Four lanterns needed.
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# Grid as it REALLY is (server truth). The Navigator is served the mirror image (see navigatorView).
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grid:
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- "###############"
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- "#S..#.........#"
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- "###.#.#.#####.#"
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- "#K#.....#...#.#"
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- "#.####.##.#.#.#"
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- "#..T.....T....#"
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- "#.###T#.###..T#"
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- "#...#T#.#.....#"
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- "#.#.#.#.#.###.#"
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- "#..K#.#.....#K#"
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- "#.#.#.#.###.#T#"
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- "#.#.........#.#"
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- "#.#.#.#.###.#.#"
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- "#KT...#......E#"
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- "###############"
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lanternsRequired: 4
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explorer:
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compass: relative # controls are forward/left/right/back instead of N/E/S/W
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startFacing: e # the only open way out of S
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# Server converts relative → absolute using the Explorer's current facing, then sets facing = move direction.
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# Explorer's view lists open directions as relative ("Open: forward, right") and never shows N/E/S/W.
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glyphs:
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- { x: 1, y: 1, glyph: ticket, label: "🎟 A torn carnival ticket (the entrance)" }
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- { x: 3, y: 1, glyph: crescent, label: "☾ A crescent moon etched in the glass" }
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- { x: 11, y: 11, glyph: crescent, label: "☾ A crescent moon etched in the glass" }
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- { x: 9, y: 3, glyph: star, label: "✦ A four-pointed star" }
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- { x: 7, y: 11, glyph: star, label: "✦ A four-pointed star" }
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- { x: 13, y: 1, glyph: shard, label: "🪞 A shattered mirror panel" }
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- { x: 5, y: 5, glyph: bell, label: "🔔 A tiny brass bell hanging from the ceiling" }
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- { x: 11, y: 7, glyph: butterfly, label: "🦋 A painted butterfly" }
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- { x: 1, y: 7, glyph: feather, label: "🪶 A feather on the floor" }
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- { x: 9, y: 9, glyph: rose, label: "🌹 A paper rose" }
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- { x: 5, y: 13, glyph: heart, label: "♥ Two hearts scratched into the glass" }
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lanterns:
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- { x: 1, y: 3, name: Lantern of Reflection }
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- { x: 1, y: 13, name: Lantern of Patience }
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- { x: 3, y: 9, name: Lantern of Trust }
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- { x: 13, y: 9, name: Lantern of Home }
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navigatorView:
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mapTransform: mirror-x # serve each row reversed; glyph/lantern/trap x becomes (width - 1 - x)
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showMoveCount: true
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banner: "This map was traced from a mirror. Left is right. Right is left."
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explorerView:
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flavour:
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blank: "Your own reflection stares back from every side."
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trap: "The mirror floor cracks and you drop through... and wake up at the entrance, facing the way in."
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lantern: "A glass lantern glows to life in your hands. ({name})"
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exitLocked: "A mirrored door with four lantern hooks. It won't budge."
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exitOpen: "You hang four lanterns. Every mirror in the maze lights up at once, and the door opens onto the fairground."
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scoring:
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trapPenaltySeconds: 90
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parMoves: 110
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successEnding: |
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The Explorer stumbles out into the empty fairground. The Navigator is waiting by the ferris wheel,
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holding the backwards map upside down, grinning.
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**You never lost each other.** 🪞🔑
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