Haplopraxis — Design Notes

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Haplopraxis (Starfield edition)

A tiny web game where history is the world — now with a navigable starfield.

What’s new

• Canvas starfield with a controllable ship. Focus planets to interact.
• Press Space while a planet is in the reticle to trigger that affordance (same effects as clicking).
• Ship movement affects encounter ordering — the order you see things changes the autopsy.
• Hidden-rule system now emerges from historical interactions (ordering, lag, ancestry, and singular mutation), not typed triggers.
• Save / Load, Export / Import, Replay, Sample-lineage, toasts, and audio feedback retained.
• Keyboard shortcuts: see the control panel (press C).

How to play

1. Open index.html.
2. Move with WASD. Use Q/E/H/L/J/K/R/F for extra view control (see the in-page control panel).
3. Bring planets into the center reticle and press Space to interact.
4. Use the UI buttons to Save, Load, Export, Import, Replay, or start a New Lineage fork.

Files of interest

• index.html — main page (now includes the starfield canvas)
• styles.css — UI + starfield overlay styling
• hidden_rules_engine.js — compositional historical hidden-rule engine
• game.js — starfield runtime + UI integration (save/load/export/import/replay/lineage)
• hidden-rules-games.md — compendium of games with hidden/unknown rules (Easter egg target)
• sample-lineage.json — example lineage
• analysis-tools/haplopraxis_analysis.py — repository-specific NumPy/SymPy/NLTK analysis toolkit