com.gamethesky.make.game

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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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          "description": "The engine, one of Game the Sky's games made a chapter: platformer, house (a haunted floor), tanks (a tank maze), vortex (a tube of lanes), roll (a tilting course), fight (a bout), golf (a hole), cycles, discs, uplink and canyon (the grid), belts (the counter), race (a sling race), gunner (the door gunner), the arcade classics, walk (a haunted walk-through: no gun, a nerve meter), and fps (first person, armed, in a place such as a military facility: guards, keycards, intel, extraction). The list grows as games are added; a reader refuses a module it doesn't have.",
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            "drones",
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          "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.",
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          "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.",
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          "description": "What the button says. Words only: a hidden game's read \"Option 1\", \"Option 2\"…",
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          "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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      "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.",
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          "cast": {
            "description": "The maker's own Foe Booth cast, included on purpose (off by default): each photo is a public blob in the maker's repo. Looks only: a verifier ignores it. Absent, players see their own cast or the engines' own monsters.",
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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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      "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.",
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          "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.",
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          "description": "A recorded sound as the scene opens, from the horror pack. Absent: none.",
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