com.gamethesky.make.game

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          ],

          "description": "A picture for this chapter's sky or backdrop, drawn behind the play where the chapter type can (at most 1600×900). Public once published. Looks only: play, boards and the verifier never read it.",

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          "type": "blob"

        },

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          "description": "A level the builder drew in the maker, in place of the preset's own map, for modules whose levels can be drawn (platformer, house, tank maze, vortex, walk-through). A reader runs the module's own checker on it and refuses the game if it fails.",

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          "type": "ref"

        },

        "messages": {

          "description": "Story beats placed on squares of the chapter's level (drawn or the preset's own), for modules whose levels take them (house, walk, fps, platformer, tanks): each shown in a strip as the player reaches its square, without stopping play. Looks only: play, boards and the verifier never read them.",

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            "type": "ref"

          },

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          "type": "array"

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            "vortex",

            "roll",

            "fight",

            "golf",

            "cycles",

            "discs",

            "uplink",

            "canyon",

            "belts",

            "race",

            "gunner",

            "drones",

            "landing",

            "deckgun",

            "minefield",

            "pipes",

            "catch",

            "fence",

            "airdrop",

            "invaders",

            "crossing",

            "walk",

          ],

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          "type": "string"

        },

        "next": {

          "description": "Where the path goes once this chapter is cleared, when it isn't simply the next chapter: a later chapter's index counting from 0, written in digits (\"3\"), or \"end\" (the ending). Forward only: a reader lets go of a value that isn't later than this chapter or is past the last, and the chapter goes on to the next as if it had none. Absent: the next chapter, or the ending after the last. Part of play.",

          "maxLength": 8,

          "type": "string"

        },

        "pictures": {

          "type": "unknown"

        },

        "posters": {

          "description": "The builder's pictures hung on the level's walls (a wanted poster, a family photo, a logo, a sign), for chapter types whose levels have walls to see (the house, the walk-through, first person, the tank maze): one a wall square, framed on the face that looks onto the most open floor. A poster on a square that isn't a wall, or whose picture is missing, isn't shown. Looks only: not part of play.",

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            "type": "ref"

          },

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          "type": "array"

        },

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          "description": "The module's own level to start from (or, with a drawn level, the look it's drawn in).",

          "maxLength": 32,

          "type": "string"

        },

        "settings": {

          "description": "The module's knobs as an object of whole numbers by key (for example {\"lives\": 3, \"speed\": 120}). Each module declares its keys and ranges; readers clamp to them, and a missing key takes its default. First person's include, all optional: stealth, guards, bodies (guards find bodies), rally (after you're down: back at the last checkpoint, topped up), kit (the built-in weapons carried besides the rifle, a bit each: pistol, suppressed pistol, SMG, shotgun, sniper rifle, taser, tranquilizer), custom (the game's own weapons carried, a bit each), coins and emps (the gadgets).",

          "type": "unknown"

        },

        "sounds": {

          "description": "The game's own sounds in place of the chapter's, by the noise (an object of sound ids by key): the walk-through's jump-outs (ghoul, thing, face, hound, victim, drop, member) and sound pieces (cueA, cueL, cueR, cueI, cueJ, cueN, cueY); First person's alerts (spotted, alarm, caught, checkpoint). A reader takes only the keys its module names and the sounds the game has. Looks only.",

          "type": "unknown"

        },

        "textures": {

          "description": "The builder's own art for the pieces of the chapter's level, by piece (the module's own names: the platformer's ground, bricks and ledge; the house's and the tank maze's wall and floor; the walk-through's wall, floor, ceiling and portrait), each a blob: a square JPEG (256×256, at most 120 KB) drawn tiled, one a square of the level. Public once published. Looks only.",

          "type": "unknown"

        },

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          "maxLength": 160,

          "type": "string"

        },

        "version": {

          "description": "The module's rules this chapter was built on. A reader that doesn't have that version refuses the game rather than playing it differently.",

          "minimum": 1,

          "type": "integer"

        },

        "words": {

          "description": "The builder's own words in place of the chapter's: an object of strings by key (for example {\"objective\": \"Grandma's recipe\", \"boss\": \"AUNT MARGE\"}). Each module declares its keys (its banners, toasts, HUD labels, the hint) and how long each may be; a reader keeps only keys it knows, trims each to its limit, and says the rest in the module's own words. A word may hold placeholders such as {n} and {total}, filled with the numbers as it's said. Looks only: play, boards and the verifier never read it.",

          "type": "unknown"

        }

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        "version",

        "title",

        "preset",

        "settings"

      ],

      "type": "object"

    },

    "choice": {

      "description": "One way on from a scene's choice.",

      "properties": {

        "label": {

          "description": "What the button says. Words only: a hidden game's read \"Option 1\", \"Option 2\"…",

          "maxGraphemes": 60,

          "maxLength": 240,

          "type": "string"

        },

        "to": {

          "description": "Where it goes: a chapter's index counting from 0, written in digits (\"2\"), this scene's own chapter or a later one; or \"end\", the ending (not from the opening scene: a run plays at least one chapter). Arriving at another chapter plays that chapter's own scene (and its choice) first.",

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          "type": "string"

        }

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      "required": [

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      ],

      "type": "object"

    },

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        "lines": {

          "description": "The builder's own lines (\"Made by Todd for the Lambert family reunion\").",

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            "maxLength": 320,

            "type": "string"

          },

          "maxLength": 12,

          "type": "array"

        },

        "loop": {

          "description": "The credits' sound plays over and over under the whole roll (a music bed).",

          "type": "boolean"

        },

        "picture": {

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            "image/jpeg",

            "image/png"

          ],

          "description": "A picture at the end of the roll (at most 1600×900). Public once published. Looks only.",

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          "type": "blob"

        },

        "sound": {

          "description": "One of the game's own sounds (its id), played as the credits start to roll.",

          "maxLength": 12,

          "type": "string"

        },

        "starring": {

          "description": "The cast, in order, each once: shown with their photo and the name they go by in the game.",

          "items": {

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            "type": "ref"

          },

          "maxLength": 15,

          "type": "array"

        }

      },

      "type": "object"

    },

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            "type": "string"

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          "maxLength": 24,

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          "type": "array"

        }

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      ],

      "type": "object"

    },

    "main": {

      "description": "A game somebody made in Make the Sky, published into their own repo: a title, a line about it, its look, and one to eight chapters, each one of Game the Sky's engines (a module) on one of its levels (a preset) with its knobs set. Play is decided by the chapters alone (and, in a game whose story branches, where its choices and jumps go). A game is edited in place (the same record, a new version): its board belongs to its way of playing (the chapters' modules, versions, presets and settings, and its paths), so renaming or restyling it keeps the board, and changing a chapter starts a fresh one. A run pins the version it was played on; a verifier replays it on the game as it stands and takes it only if it replays the same.",

      "key": "tid",

      "record": {

        "properties": {

          "carryLives": {

            "description": "Lives carry over: each chapter with lives after the first starts with the lives the player had left (at most 9), not its own lives setting; chapters without lives pass them along. Part of play: a game with it has its own board.",

            "type": "boolean"

          },

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              "type": "ref"

            },

            "type": "array"

          },

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            "description": "Played in order, unless the game branches: clearing one goes on to the next (or where its next says, and a scene's choice can send the player ahead); losing one ends the run.",

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              "type": "ref"

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            "minLength": 1,

            "type": "array"

          },

          "cover": {

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              "image/jpeg",

              "image/png"

            ],

            "description": "The game's picture: its page, its share card, its tile in the gallery. 1200×630, cropped by the maker. Public once published. Looks only: play, boards and the verifier never read it.",

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            "type": "blob"

          },

          "createdAt": {

            "format": "datetime",

            "type": "string"

          },

          "credits": {

            "description": "The game's end credits, rolled after the ending and before the results, skippable. Present means they're on. Looks only: not part of play.",

            "ref": "#credits",

            "type": "ref"

          },

          "description": {

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            "maxLength": 800,

            "type": "string"

          },

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              "image/png",

              "image/jpeg"

            ],

            "description": "The game's title as a picture (a PNG with a clear background, at most 1200×400), shown in place of the typed title on its page, its chapter cards and its share card; the typed title stays for readers. Public once published. Looks only.",

            "maxSize": 409600,

            "type": "blob"

          },

          "remixOf": {

            "description": "The game this one was remixed from, pinned to the version remixed: credit, shown on the game's page. Absent for an original.",

            "ref": "com.atproto.repo.strongRef",

            "type": "ref"

          },

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            "description": "The story told between chapters: cut-scenes, one at most before each chapter (the first is the opening) and one each for winning and losing at the end (and, in a game whose story branches, an ending of a way's own: see the scene's chapter). A scene a reader can't use is skipped, never the game. Words and looks only (not part of play, so adding or editing scenes keeps the game's board, and a verifier never reads them), except a scene's choices: where each goes is part of play.",

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              "type": "ref"

            },

            "type": "array"

          },

          "sounds": {

            "description": "The builder's own sounds, recorded or uploaded in the maker: at most eight, five seconds each. Used by id where the game makes a noise: a scene's sting and a message's sound (as \"sound:<id>\"), a chapter's sounds (the walk-through's jump-outs and sound pieces, First person's alerts), the title card's and the credits' sound. Only the ones the game uses are published. Public once published; looks only: play, boards and the verifier never read them. A hidden game's are withheld.",

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              "ref": "#sound",

              "type": "ref"

            },

            "maxLength": 8,

            "type": "array"

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          "theme": {

            "ref": "#theme",

            "type": "ref"

          },

          "title": {

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            "maxLength": 240,

            "type": "string"

          },

          "titleCard": {

            "description": "The game's own title card, shown before the opening scene or the first chapter's card, with a short fade. Present means it's on. Looks only: not part of play.",

            "ref": "#titleCard",

            "type": "ref"

          },

          "weapons": {

            "description": "The builder's own weapons, for First person chapters: a chapter carries the ones its `custom` setting ticks (a bit each, the first weapon bit 0), and a drawn level places them as pickups (① to ⑧). Their numbers are part of play (changing one gives the game a fresh board); their names, looks and pictures are words and looks. A reader takes eight at most and clamps each number to its range.",

            "items": {

              "ref": "#weapon",

              "type": "ref"

            },

            "maxLength": 8,

            "type": "array"

          }

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          "theme",

          "chapters",

          "createdAt"

        ],

        "type": "object"

      },

      "type": "record"

    },

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          ],

          "maxSize": 196608,

          "type": "blob"

        },

        "name": {

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          "maxLength": 160,

          "type": "string"

        },

          "knownValues": [

          ],

          "type": "string"

        }

      },

      "required": [

      ],

      "type": "object"

    },

    "message": {

      "properties": {

        "again": {

          "description": "Shown every time the player steps back onto it, not only the first.",

          "type": "boolean"

        },

        "sting": {

          "description": "A sound as it shows: one of the horror pack's recordings, a radio's blip, or one of the game's own sounds as \"sound:<id>\".",

          "knownValues": [

            "creepy_hello",

            "creepy_laugh",

            "female_scream",

            "intrigue_event",

            "jump_scare",

            "jump_scare_horn",

            "lets_play",

            "radio"

          ],

          "maxLength": 32,

          "type": "string"

        },

        "text": {

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          "maxLength": 640,

          "type": "string"

        },

        "who": {

          "knownValues": [

          ],

          "maxLength": 16,

          "type": "string"

        },

        "x": {

          "description": "The square's column, as the level's rows have it.",

          "minimum": 0,

          "type": "integer"

        },

        "y": {

          "description": "The square's row.",

          "minimum": 0,

          "type": "integer"

        }

      },

      "required": [

        "x",

        "y",

        "text"

      ],

      "type": "object"

    },

    "poster": {

      "properties": {

        "pic": {

          "description": "Which of the chapter's poster pictures it shows: 1 is pictures.poster1, and so on.",

          "maximum": 6,

          "minimum": 1,

          "type": "integer"

        },

        "x": {

          "description": "The wall square's column, as the level's rows have it (the drawn level's, or the preset's own map).",

          "minimum": 0,

          "type": "integer"

        },

        "y": {

          "description": "The wall square's row.",

          "minimum": 0,

          "type": "integer"

        }

      },

      "required": [

        "x",

        "y",

        "pic"

      ],

      "type": "object"

    },

    "scene": {

      "description": "A cut-scene: a title and a few lines typed out over a letterboxed screen, each said by one of the cast or by nobody (narration), over a background of the builder's choosing.",

      "properties": {

        "at": {

          "description": "Where it plays: before a chapter (see chapter), or at the end, after the last chapter is cleared (win) or after a chapter is lost (lose), before the results.",

          "knownValues": [

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            "win",

            "lose"

          ],

          "maxLength": 16,

          "type": "string"

        },

        "bg": {

          "description": "What plays behind the words: replay, the last moments of the chapter just played, slowed down, dimmed and silent (a flyby before the first chapter, where nothing's been played yet); flyby, a slow look round the next chapter's level; picture, the builder's own (see picture); plain, the game's theme.",

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            "flyby",

            "picture",

            "plain"

          ],

          "maxLength": 16,

          "type": "string"

        },

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          "description": "For a scene before a chapter: which one, counting from 0 (0 is the opening, before the first chapter's card). For an ending (win or lose) in a game whose story branches: the ending for the way whose last chapter played was this one; the ending without a chapter plays wherever no way's own matches. Looks only.",

          "minimum": 0,

          "type": "integer"

        },

        "choices": {

          "description": "For a scene before a chapter: a choice of two or three ways, shown as buttons after its last line. Picking one plays where it goes instead of this scene's chapter. A reader that can't take every option (one going backward, past the last chapter, or to the ending from the opening) plays the scene without a choice. Where the ways go is part of play; their labels are words.",

          "items": {

            "ref": "#choice",

            "type": "ref"

          },

          "maxLength": 3,

          "minLength": 2,

          "type": "array"

        },

        "lines": {

          "description": "Typed out one at a time; the player moves on line by line.",

          "items": {

            "ref": "#sceneLine",

            "type": "ref"

          },

          "maxLength": 6,

          "type": "array"

        },

        "music": {

          "description": "A mood of music under the scene. Absent: none.",

          "knownValues": [

            "musicbox",

            "heartbeat",

            "unease",

            "dread",

            "tension",

            "groove",

            "pulse",

            "drift",

            "alarm",

            "island",

            "heist"

          ],

          "maxLength": 32,

          "type": "string"

        },

        "picture": {

          "accept": [

            "image/jpeg",

            "image/png"

          ],

          "description": "The builder's own picture for a picture background (at most 1600×900). Public once published. Looks only.",

          "maxSize": 716800,

          "type": "blob"

        },

        "sting": {

          "description": "A recorded sound as the scene opens: one of the horror pack's, or one of the game's own sounds as \"sound:<id>\". Absent: none.",

          "knownValues": [

            "creepy_hello",

            "creepy_laugh",

            "female_scream",

            "intrigue_event",

            "jump_scare",

            "jump_scare_horn",

            "lets_play"

          ],

          "maxLength": 32,

          "type": "string"

        },

        "title": {

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          "maxLength": 240,

          "type": "string"

        }

      },

      "required": [

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        "bg"

      ],

      "type": "object"

    },

    "sceneLine": {

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          "maxLength": 640,

          "type": "string"

        },

        "who": {

          "knownValues": [

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          "maxLength": 16,

          "type": "string"

        }

      },

      "required": [

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      ],

      "type": "object"

    },

    "sound": {

      "description": "One of the builder's own sounds.",

      "properties": {

        "blob": {

          "accept": [

            "audio/*",

            "video/mp4"

          ],

          "description": "The sound: AAC in an MP4, or 16-bit PCM in a WAV, mono, at most five seconds and 200 KB. (A data server may name an MP4 video/mp4 or audio/x-m4a, and a WAV audio/x-wav or audio/vnd.wave, by its bytes.)",

          "maxSize": 204800,

          "type": "blob"

        },

        "id": {

          "description": "Lowercase letters and digits, unique in the game: how the rest of the record names it.",

          "maxLength": 12,

          "type": "string"

        },

        "mime": {

          "description": "What it is, as the maker made it.",

          "knownValues": [

            "audio/mp4",

            "audio/wav"

          ],

          "maxLength": 32,

          "type": "string"

        },

        "ms": {

          "description": "How long it is, in milliseconds.",

          "maximum": 5000,

          "minimum": 1,

          "type": "integer"

        },

        "name": {

          "description": "What the builder calls it (\"Grandpa's yell\").",

          "maxGraphemes": 40,

          "maxLength": 160,

          "type": "string"

        }

      },

      "required": [

        "id",

        "blob",

        "mime",

        "ms"

      ],

      "type": "object"

    },

    "starring": {

      "properties": {

        "as": {

          "description": "Who they play (\"Grandma\"), shown as \"as Grandma\".",

          "maxGraphemes": 40,

          "maxLength": 160,

          "type": "string"

        },

        "who": {

          "knownValues": [

          ],

          "maxLength": 16,

          "type": "string"

        }

      },

      "required": [

        "who"

      ],

      "type": "object"

    },

    "theme": {

      "properties": {

        "mood": {

          "description": "How the chapters light their worlds.",

          "knownValues": [

            "bright",

            "dusk",

            "cold",

            "neon",

            "space",

            "horror",

            "retro"

          ],

          "type": "string"

        },

        "palette": {

          "description": "Five #rrggbb colors: the page, its panels, the accent, danger, and the words.",

          "items": {

            "maxLength": 7,

            "type": "string"

          },

          "maxLength": 5,

          "minLength": 5,

          "type": "array"

        },

        "pattern": {

          "knownValues": [

            "none",

            "grid",

            "stripes",

            "dots",

            "checks",

            "waves",

            "stars"

          ],

          "type": "string"

        },

        "preset": {

          "description": "The look it started from (haunted, neon, storybook, space, retro, frozen, sunset), or custom.",

          "maxLength": 20,

          "type": "string"

        },

        "type": {

          "description": "The typeface for titles.",

          "knownValues": [

            "anton",

            "creepster",

            "inter"

          ],

          "type": "string"

        }

      },

      "required": [

        "palette",

        "pattern",

        "mood",

        "type"

      ],

      "type": "object"

    },

    "titleCard": {

      "properties": {

        "line": {

          "description": "A line under the title.",

          "maxGraphemes": 120,

          "maxLength": 480,

          "type": "string"

        },

        "picture": {

          "accept": [

            "image/jpeg",

            "image/png"

          ],

          "description": "The builder's picture for the card (at most 1600×900); absent, the game's logo if it has one. Public once published. Looks only.",

          "maxSize": 716800,

          "type": "blob"

        },

        "sound": {

          "description": "One of the game's own sounds (its id), played as the card fades in.",

          "maxLength": 12,

          "type": "string"

        },

        "title": {

          "description": "In place of the game's title on the card; absent, the game's own.",

          "maxGraphemes": 60,

          "maxLength": 240,

          "type": "string"

        }

      },

      "type": "object"

    },

    "weapon": {

      "description": "One of the builder's own weapons: what it's called, which built-in model it wears, and what it does. Every number is a whole number in its range (a reader clamps it).",

      "properties": {

        "damage": {

          "description": "Health off a guard per round that lands (a guard has 4 at the default toughness, the boss 28). Lethal weapons only.",

          "maximum": 10,

          "minimum": 1,

          "type": "integer"

        },

        "delay": {

          "description": "A non-lethal weapon's: 60 Hz ticks a guard staggers before it drops (0: at once).",

          "maximum": 300,

          "minimum": 0,

          "type": "integer"

        },

        "lethal": {

          "description": "False: a hit knocks a guard out (unconscious) instead of hurting it.",

          "type": "boolean"

        },

        "look": {

          "description": "The built-in model it wears. Looks only.",

          "knownValues": [

            "pistol",

            "silenced",

            "smg",

            "shotgun",

            "sniper",

            "taser",

            "tranq"

          ],

          "maxLength": 16,

          "type": "string"

        },

        "magazine": {

          "description": "Rounds (or charges) in a magazine.",

          "maximum": 60,

          "minimum": 1,

          "type": "integer"

        },

        "name": {

          "maxGraphemes": 24,

          "maxLength": 96,

          "type": "string"

        },

        "noise": {

          "description": "How far guards hear a shot, in squares (0: silent).",

          "maximum": 14,

          "minimum": 0,

          "type": "integer"

        },

        "pellets": {

          "description": "Rounds a pull of the trigger (a shotgun's several).",

          "maximum": 9,

          "minimum": 1,

          "type": "integer"

        },

        "range": {

          "description": "How far a round goes, in squares.",

          "maximum": 24,

          "minimum": 1,

          "type": "integer"

        },

        "rate": {

          "description": "60 Hz ticks between shots.",

          "maximum": 120,

          "minimum": 4,

          "type": "integer"

        },

        "reload": {

          "description": "60 Hz ticks to reload.",

          "maximum": 300,

          "minimum": 20,

          "type": "integer"

        },

        "skin": {

          "accept": [

            "image/jpeg",

            "image/png"

          ],

          "description": "The builder's picture on its body (a square JPEG, 256×256, at most 120 KB). Public once published. Looks only.",

          "maxSize": 122880,

          "type": "blob"

        },

        "spare": {

          "description": "Spare magazines carried at the start.",

          "maximum": 9,

          "minimum": 0,

          "type": "integer"

        },

        "spread": {

          "description": "How far a round can stray either way, in 1024ths of a turn.",

          "maximum": 60,

          "minimum": 0,

          "type": "integer"

        }

      },

      "required": [

        "name",

        "look",

        "damage",

        "rate",

        "range",

        "magazine",

        "lethal"

      ],

      "type": "object"

    }

  },

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  "lexicon": 1

}