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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>
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# Sample Dungeon — concrete example board
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Generated by the reikhelm dungeon recipe
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(`reikhelm-core/src/recipes/dungeon.rs`) and dumped by the throwaway example
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`reikhelm-core/examples/sample_dungeon.rs`.
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Reproduce exactly:
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```sh
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cargo run --example sample_dungeon -p reikhelm-core 42 48 32
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```
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- **Seed:** `42`
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- **Canvas:** 48 x 32 cells
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- **Config:** `DungeonConfig::default()` (just resized) — BSP `min_leaf 8`,
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`max_depth 5`; rooms `5..=11`, margin 1; `extra_edge_ratio 0.30` (loop edges,
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not a strict tree); `door_chance 0.5`.
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- **Result:** 12 rooms, 14 corridors, deterministic for this seed.
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## ASCII map
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Legend: `#` wall `.` floor `+` door `o` pillar `~` water `!` lava
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```
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################################################
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#################.....####################...###
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#################.....###################.....##
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#...........#####.....###########.######.......#
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#...........#####.....###########.+....+.......#
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#.............................+.....####.......#
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#...........#####.....###########.#######.....##
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#...........#####.....###########.#######....###
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####.##############.#############+#######.######
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####.##############.#############.#######.######
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####.#########...##.#############.#######+######
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####.########.....#.#############.####.......###
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####.########.....#.#############.####.......###
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####.########.....#.##########....####.......###
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##...########.....#.##########...+...........###
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###...+...........+.#######.........##....o..###
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###.#.#######.....#########.........##.......###
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#####.#######.....############...#####.......###
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#####.#######.....############...########+######
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#####.#######.....#######################.######
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#####.########...########################.######
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#####.#########+#########################.######
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#####.#########.#########################.######
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###.....#######.#########################.######
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##.......######.########......###########.######
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#.........#####+#######........##########+######
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#.........+.+.....####..........####...........#
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#.........###...................####...........#
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##.......####.....####..........####...........#
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###.....#####.....#####........#####...........#
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#############.....######......######...........#
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################################################
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```
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## Regions
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Themes drive DEEPFALL room flavor. Only rooms carry a theme; corridors are
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plain passages. `cells` is the room's floor area (a rough "size").
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| Region | Kind | Theme | Cells (size) | Top-left (x,y) | W x H |
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|-------:|------|-----------|-------------:|----------------|-------|
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| 0 | Room | Stone | 55 | (1,3) | 11x5 |
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| 1 | Room | Threshold | 35 | (17,1) | 5x7 |
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| 2 | Room | Den | 9 | (31,3) | 5x5 |
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| 3 | Room | Vault | 37 | (40,1) | 7x7 |
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| 4 | Room | Den | 8 | (2,13) | 4x4 |
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| 5 | Room | Library | 51 | (1,23) | 9x7 |
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| 6 | Room | Crypt | 51 | (13,10) | 5x11 |
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| 7 | Room | Den | 30 | (27,13) | 9x6 |
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| 8 | Room | Hall | 49 | (38,11) | 7x7 |
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| 9 | Room | Crypt | 25 | (13,26) | 5x5 |
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| 10 | Room | Den | 58 | (22,24) | 10x7 |
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| 11 | Room | Throne | 55 | (36,26) | 11x5 |
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Plus 14 corridor regions (ids 12–25) linking the rooms.
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### Entities (overlay layer)
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- **Entrance** @ (19,4) — sits in the `Threshold` room (region 1).
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- **Exit** @ (41,28) — sits in the `Throne` room (region 11), the far end.
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- **Treasure** x6 and **Monster** x14 scattered, biased by each room's theme
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(e.g. `Vault`/`Library` loot-rich, `Den` monster-dense, `Throne` high-risk
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high-reward, `Threshold` kept safe).
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## Mapping to DEEPFALL
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Each reikhelm **room** becomes a DEEPFALL room tile carrying its **theme**
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(Vault, Library, Crypt, Den, Hall, Throne, Threshold...), which sets that tile's
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loot/danger profile via the recipe's `(treasure_bias, monster_bias)`; corridors
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are the connective passages between them. Depth = distance from the `Threshold`
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entrance toward the `Throne` exit, so **deeper rooms are higher value** (and
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higher risk) — the `Throne` boss seat at the far corner is the natural payoff
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tile.
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