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park-hide-seek: playtest what needs a person (feel, balance, LAN) #67

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@QuinnsCode

Follow-up to #23 / #65. The controls bugs and the on-screen visual checks were done in #65. A browser automation tab counts as hidden, so requestAnimationFrame never runs there. That leaves these for someone at the keyboard.

Feel

  • Pointer-lock mouse look feels right (sensitivity 0.0022 in src/ui/controls.ts); Esc releases the mouse; clicking the view captures it again. The automation's clicks never got a lock.
  • Movement and the camera are smooth at full frame rate. They were only driven at about 30 fps from a worker timer.
  • Holding Shift to run and WASD held together feel right. Automation can only send short taps, or synthetic held keys.

Balance (only tuned with bots so far)

  • Bot rangers catch about a third of campers on easy, two thirds on normal, and most on hard. How does that feel against people?
  • Ranger vs camper speeds, stamina, the call-out radius and cooldown, and how long the circle takes to shrink.
  • Night sight ranges (7 m ambient, a 42 m flashlight beam, 3.5 m for a camper in a bush).

The numbers live in HUNT (src/hunt/game.ts), MOVE and SIGHT (src/hunt/sim.ts), and LEVEL (src/hunt/bots.ts).

LAN

  • A real two-machine game, not two copies on one machine.

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  1. self-assigned this
    on Oct 8, 2026
  2. QuinnsCode commented on Oct 9, 2026

    @QuinnsCode
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    More for a person, from #68 and #70 (live now):

    • Quick play with real people on separate machines and networks: press Play within about 12 s of each other on https://park-hide-seek.notryanquinn.workers.dev. Do you meet? Is 12 s the right wait, and are 4 players (AI filling) the right size?
    • Head out of the bush: crouched campers now show a head and hat over a bush when a ranger is close enough to see them. Is that too easy to spot, or too hard?
    • The new menu at phone width. It was only checked on a laptop screen.
  3. QuinnsCode commented on Oct 11, 2026

    @QuinnsCode
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    Tracked in #609, the one hands-on checklist. The steps here still apply; tick them there.

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