DEEPFALL: a tabletop game mashing up 9 loved games (SmashUp, Dragon
Rampage, Blood Rage, Catan, EverQuest, Daggerfall, Eye of the Beholder,
Quarriors, SmallWorld). Core fusion = SmallWorld decline + Blood Rage
glorious death -> three exits (Cash Out / Press On / Worthy End) under a
rising Maw that collapses a reikhelm dungeon floor-by-floor.
- deepfall-core: pure deterministic engine (vendored ChaCha8, 11 tests)
- deepfall-sim: balance-by-bot sweeps -> CSV/JSON
- analysis/analyze.py: stdlib ASCII heatmap (no deps)
- DESIGN.md (rules + post-critique revisions), FINDINGS.md (9-iteration
balance journey), README.md
- reikhelm-core/examples/sample_dungeon.rs: dumps a real generated board
Method: adversarial design critics -> build -> simulate -> tune. 9
iterations compressed combo spread 77.8 -> 32.5 pts (all 36 combos
viable). Fixed deep-content lockout (value rises with the Maw), the
multi-collapse feel-bad (1 collapse/round cap; feel-bad now 0.00/game),
and dead combos. Open finding: Cash-Out and Worthy-End are substitutes
for a glory-maximizing bot.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
A new `world` generation domain in reikhelm-core, sibling to the dungeon
passes. Builds continuous fields (elevation, temperature, moisture, flow)
and classifies them into biomes — a general-purpose world generator any
game can consume, the foundation for the "generate a world for any game"
app idea.
Stages (each forks its own RNG sub-stream, like the dungeon pipeline):
- noise: own Perlin + fBm + domain warp (no `noise` crate, same reason
we own range/shuffle — version drift would change every seed)
- elevation: domain-warped fBm shaped by edge falloff + redistribution
- hydrology: ocean/lake flood, priority-flood depression fill, D8 flow
accumulation → dendritic rivers that always reach the sea
- climate: latitude temperature w/ altitude lapse; prevailing-wind
moisture sweep with orographic rain + emergent rain shadows
- biome: Whittaker classifier over temperature × moisture
Determinism: same (config, seed) → byte-identical World on every machine.
The whole generator is transcendental-free (only + - * / and comparisons),
so even the f32 fields reproduce exactly cross-platform (spec §7 ethos).
Plus `examples/world_png.rs`: a zero-dependency PNG exporter (hand-rolled
stored-DEFLATE zlib) with biome palette, ocean-depth shading, and hillshade
— a viewer for eyeballing output, kept out of the pure core.
24 new tests (determinism, rain-shadow, depression-filling, river density,
Whittaker corners); full suite 169 passing, clippy clean.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
