Add in-game chat, bot fill for casual, and borderless fullscreen
- In-game chat: T=all, Y=team (race doubles as team), server-relayed and team-filtered via new ChatManager autoload; last 10 messages shown bottom-left (chat/chat_box.gd). - Bot fill for casual (bots/): keeps each of the match's 2 offered races at a minimum of 7 total humans+bots, spawning/despawning reactively as players join/leave. Bots always fly their race's fighter and use negative peer_ids so they ride the existing networked-ship stack (spawning, loadout sync, health/position sync, bullet attribution) with no special-casing. Casual matchmaking now forms with just 1 real player queued instead of waiting for a second (matchmaking-api/). - Borderless fullscreen with stretch scaling disabled instead of scaling the Steam-Deck-matched 1280x800 canvas up to fill PC monitors (which read as zoomed in) — PC monitors now reveal more world/HUD at native size instead. Reworked main_menu/team_select/chat_box to position via anchors relative to the real window instead of hardcoded coordinates. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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- Avoids the ghost-town feeling of a 25v25 map with 3 players
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- Bots are not added beyond 7v7 so human players always dominate strategy
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## Implementation Notes (not yet built)
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## Implementation Notes
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- Bots use simplified AI: thrust toward nearest enemy, shoot when in range
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- Bot difficulty: intentionally easy (this is casual — bots are filler, not challenge)
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- Bot names: procedurally generated callsigns so they're not obviously bots in the HUD
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- Server tracks human vs bot count per team and manages swap-in on player join
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- **`bots/bot_manager.gd`** (server-authoritative autoload) owns bot lifecycle. All
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spawn/despawn decisions funnel through one function, `_reconcile_race(race_id)`,
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triggered by `PlayerRegistry`'s existing `loadout_updated`/`player_removed`
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signals (join/leave) and `World.decide_offered_races()` (match start) — no
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polling. This is the one place to change for future tweaks (fill curve, per-map
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team size, etc.)
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- Bots get **negative peer_ids** (`-1, -2, ...`), assigned by `BotManager`. This
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lets them reuse every existing networked-ship system for free — spawning
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(`MultiplayerSpawner`), loadout replication/backfill (`PlayerRegistry`),
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position/health/visibility sync, bullet damage attribution — none of which
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cares whether a `peer_id` came from ENet or from `BotManager`
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- Bots always fly **the race's fighter/Interceptor** (`race.ships[0]` in
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`team_select.gd`'s `RACES` data)
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- AI (`bots/bot_ai.gd`, `class_name BotAI`): thrust toward nearest living enemy,
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turn to face it, shoot when roughly aimed and in range — simplified
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seek-and-shoot, intentionally easy (casual bots are filler, not a challenge).
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Fully isolated from `ship_movement.gd`'s networking code so future
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difficulty/behavior tuning only ever touches this one file
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- Bot names: `bots/bot_names.gd`, a flat pool of procedural callsigns
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- Tunables live in `GameConfig` (`bot_min_team_size`, `bot_engage_range`,
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`bot_stop_distance`, `bot_aim_tolerance_deg`)
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The chat system will be in the game. In order to focus the chat window, the user presses t. He then types a message and enter sends it.
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The message will only be in the game that the user is in. The opposing team can see the chat message as well.
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If he wants it just for the team, he presses y. It will say [team] infront of it . The chat will show the last 10 messages. It will be positioned on bottom left of screen. The chat input is at the bottom. I want it to look similiar to world of warcrafts chat system.
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│ ├── ship.tscn ← player ship scene (formerly node_2d.tscn)
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│ ├── ship_movement.gd ← player ship logic
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│ └── bullet.tscn/gd ← projectile
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├── chat/
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│ └── chat_box.tscn/gd ← WoW-style chat overlay (T=all, Y=team), added to world.tscn
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├── bots/
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│ ├── bot_manager.gd ← autoload; server-only bot fill (join/leave reconciliation)
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│ ├── bot_ai.gd ← class_name BotAI; seek-nearest-enemy-and-shoot brain
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│ └── bot_names.gd ← class_name BotNames; procedural callsign pool
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├── world/
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│ ├── world.tscn ← game world; world.gd loads the active map into MapContainer
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│ ├── world.gd ← picks/instances a map scene from world/maps/
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@@ -49,7 +55,8 @@ World (Node2D) ← world.gd instances MAP_SCENE into MapContainer o
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├── HUD (CanvasLayer)
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│ └── HealthLabel
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├── PauseMenu (CanvasLayer, layer=10) ← menu/pause_menu.tscn
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└── TeamSelect (CanvasLayer, layer=20) ← menu/team_select.tscn; queue_free()s after selection
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├── TeamSelect (CanvasLayer, layer=20) ← menu/team_select.tscn; queue_free()s after selection
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└── ChatBox (CanvasLayer, layer=5) ← chat/chat_box.tscn
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```
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### `world/maps/map_01.tscn` — hand-painted map
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| `move_down` | S | — |
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| `shoot` | Space | — |
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| `toggle_pause` | Esc | Start / Options button (JoyButton 6) |
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| `chat_all` | T | — |
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| `chat_team` | Y | — |
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## Game Flow
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└── RANKED → disabled (coming soon)
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```
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> **Note:** `server_browser.tscn` was built (Task 1) and is functional, but the current flow bypasses it — CASUAL goes directly to the world and TeamSelect handles name/race/ship. The server browser will be re-integrated when real multiplayer server listing is built.
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> **Note:** `server_browser.tscn` was built (Task 1) and is functional, but the current flow bypasses it — CASUAL goes directly to the world and TeamSelect handles name/race/ship. The server browser will be re-integrated when real multiplayer server listing is built. It still uses the old hardcoded-1280px layout style (see Display below) — not yet updated since it isn't reachable in the live flow.
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## Display
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Launches borderless fullscreen at the real screen resolution (`window/size/mode=3`
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in `project.godot`) with stretch mode **disabled** — 1 game pixel = 1 screen
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pixel everywhere, no UI/world scaling. Chosen over Godot's default
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`canvas_items`+`expand` stretch (which scales the whole 2D canvas to fill the
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window) because the game's design canvas is deliberately sized to the Steam
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Deck's native 1280×800; scaling that up to fill a PC monitor made everything
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look zoomed in. With stretch disabled, PC monitors just reveal more of the
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world/HUD at native size instead — the actual map (`world/maps/map_01.tscn`)
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is already a fixed-size 14016×6000 arena, not viewport-sized, so there's more
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world to reveal.
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This means every menu Control has to position itself relative to the *real*
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window size, not a fixed 1280×800 design canvas — anchors (0.0=edge,
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0.5=center, 1.0=opposite edge) plus fixed pixel offsets from that anchor,
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not raw absolute pixel coordinates. `main_menu.gd` and `team_select.gd` both
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have a `_place()`/direct-property-assignment helper for this — **always set
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anchor properties directly (`node.anchor_left = ...`) rather than through
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sequential `set_anchor_and_offset()` calls**: that method's default
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`push_opposite_anchor=true` drags the opposite side's anchor/offset along
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whenever two sequential calls momentarily disagree (e.g. left set to a 0.5
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anchor while right is still its 0.0 default), corrupting layout — hit this
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exact bug converting the play-mode buttons to be centered.
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## Key Autoload — `GameConfig`
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| `ship_invincibility_time` | float | Tuning constant |
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| `bullet_damage` | int | Tuning constant |
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| `ship_wall_damage` | int | Tuning constant |
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| `chat_focused` | bool | Set by ChatBox while its input line has keyboard focus; gates ship movement/fire input |
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| `bot_min_team_size` | int | Tuning constant — min humans+bots per race, see `bots/bot_manager.gd` |
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| `bot_engage_range` | float | Tuning constant — bot max shoot distance |
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| `bot_stop_distance` | float | Tuning constant — bot stops closing distance below this |
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| `bot_aim_tolerance_deg` | float | Tuning constant — how precisely a bot must face a target to fire |
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## Key Autoload — `BotManager`
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Server-authoritative bot fill for casual (`bots/bot_manager.gd`). Keeps each of the
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match's 2 offered races at `GameConfig.bot_min_team_size` total humans+bots,
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reacting to `PlayerRegistry.loadout_updated`/`player_removed` and
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`World.decide_offered_races()`. See `overview/bots.md`.
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## Key Autoload — `ChatManager`
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Server-relayed chat (`autoload/chat_manager.gd`). `send_chat(text, team_only)` sends;
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`message_received(sender_name, sender_race, team_only, text)` signal delivers
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incoming messages to `ChatBox`. "Team" messages are filtered server-side to
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peers sharing the sender's race (race doubles as team — see `PlayerRegistry`).
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| 5 | Main menu | CASUAL / RANKED (disabled), callsign input, rank badge, quit button |
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| 6 | In-game pause menu | ESC / controller Start; game runs behind it; working: RESUME, QUIT TO MENU, QUIT TO DESKTOP |
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| 7 | Team & ship selection | On world load; 2 random races offered; ship grid with real sprites; player spawns after |
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| 8 | Replace placeholder races with chosen 3 (Terran Republic, Mechanos Sovereignty, Vorg Swarm) | Done |
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| 9 | Real ship sprites for all 3 races (5 ships each) | Done |
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| 13 | Multiplayer networking — ENet authoritative server | Done |
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| 18 | In-game chat (T=all, Y=team, last 10 messages, bottom-left) | `chat/chat_box.gd` + `autoload/chat_manager.gd` — see `chat.md` |
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| 11 | Bot fill for casual (min 7v7) | `bots/bot_manager.gd` + `bots/bot_ai.gd` — see `bots.md` |
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## Up Next
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| # | Task | Priority |
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| 8 | Replace placeholder races with chosen 3 (Terran Republic, Mechanos Sovereignty, Void Wraiths) | High |
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| 9 | Real ship sprites for all 3 races (5 ships each) | High |
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| 10 | Asteroids + environment hazards | Medium |
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| 11 | Bot fill for casual (min 7v7) | Medium — see `bots.md` |
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| 12 | Sound effects (thrust, shoot, explosion, UI clicks) | Medium |
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| 13 | Multiplayer networking — ENet authoritative server | High (big) |
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| 14 | Galaxy war meta + sector control | Low (post-networking) |
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| 15 | Ranked matchmaking + MMR | Low (post-networking) |
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| 16 | Settings screen (audio, controls, display) | Low |
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