✅ CROSSFADE IMPLEMENTATION:
- OLD polaroid fades OUT while NEW fades IN
- Same 800ms duration = smooth transition
- NO black screen between shots!
- Removed old sequential fade logic
✅ KEY CHANGES:
1. Store old polaroid reference (don't destroy immediately)
2. Create new photo+frame
3. Fade IN new (800ms)
4. SIMULTANEOUSLY fade OUT old (800ms)
5. Destroy old only after fade complete
✅ REMOVED:
- Old sequential fade-out (300ms wait)
- Old glitch-out transition (caused black)
- RGB flash at end (made gaps)
RESULT: Smooth continuous image flow!
NO MORE BLACK GAPS! 🎆
Test with 'rs' in terminal!
✅ FIXED CRASH:
- Commented out noir_music loading (file path issue)
- Added safety check in fadeToGame()
- Prologue will work without music temporarily
ERROR WAS:
- UltimatePrologueScene tried to load 'night_theme.wav'
- File doesn't exist or wrong path
- Crashed on scene.start('StoryScene')
TEMP SOLUTION:
- Music disabled with /* */ comments
- Can re-enable after fixing file path
- Game will continue without prologue music
Game should work now!
✅ VOICE FILES UPDATED:
- All 21 voice paths changed to English (_en_ versions)
- Kai: en-US-GuyNeural
- Ana: en-US-JennyNeural
- Gronk: en-GB-RyanNeural (Deep UK)
✅ SUBTITLE SYSTEM ADDED:
- showSubtitle() function (bottom center, 100px from bottom)
- playVoice() now accepts subtitle text
- Auto fade in/out (500ms/300ms)
- Cyan glow effect
- Word wrap support
- Depth 950 (below VHS, above Polaroid)
✅ STYLING:
- Font: Courier New, 20px
- Color: White with black stroke (3px)
- Shadow: Cyan glow with blur
- Duration: 2.8s (synced with 3s shots)
NEXT: Add English subtitle text to all 20 playVoice() calls!
✅ SLOVENIAN VOICES (Edge-TTS):
- kai_memory_01.mp3 - 'Nekoč smo imeli barve...' (14KB)
- kai_memory_02.mp3 - 'Potem je prišla tema...' (13KB)
- kai_memory_03.mp3 - 'In ostal sem sam...' (54KB)
✅ AMBIENT MUSIC:
- noir_ambience.mp3 - Night theme for background (11MB)
✅ CODE UPDATED:
- Changed .ogg to .mp3 extensions
- Audio will play automatically on intro!
🎯 READY TO TEST:
Restart game (rs) and intro should have SOUND! 🎆
✅ GLITCH TRANSITION FIXED:
- Frame fades out FIRST (100ms)
- Then photo glitches alone
- Chromatic aberration on photo only
- Final photo fade out
NO MORE WHITE SQUARE DURING GLITCH! 🎆
Next: Adding audio files...
✅ FIXED BUGS:
- loadAudioSafe() function added
- startAmbientAudio() function added
- createVHSEffects() function added
- All functions properly called in create()
✅ NOW READY TO TEST!
Intro should work with Polaroid frames + VHS effects!
✅ POLAROID AESTHETIC:
- 65% screen size with white beige frame
- Floating animation (5px up/down)
- Dirty grain texture on frame
- Glitch-out transitions with chromatic aberration
✅ VHS RETRO EFFECTS:
- Scanline overlay (every 4px)
- VHS noise flicker animation
- Chromatic aberration on transitions
✅ READY TO TEST!
Audio placeholders added but will not crash if missing.
Run game to see polished intro!
✅ INTROSCENE.JS CREATED (430+ lines):
- Version B: 30-45 second fast-cut intro
- 3 phases (Happy Family → Collapse → Amnesia Wake-Up)
- Skip functionality (X key or SPACE after 5s)
- Style 32 Dark-Chibi Noir visual effects
- Blur, glitch, tint, strobe effects
- Complete typewriter text in Slovenian
📁 FILES CREATED/MODIFIED:
- src/scenes/IntroScene.js (NEW! 430 lines)
- index.html (added IntroScene.js script)
- src/game.js (added IntroScene to scene array)
- src/scenes/PreloadScene.js (updated to start IntroScene)
🎯 FEATURES IMPLEMENTED:
**Phase 1: Happy Family (0-15s)**
- 5 fast-cut shots (~3s each)
- Warm color grading
- Text: 'Nekoč smo imeli barve...'
- Shots: Otac longboard, Ana barbershop, twins, birthday, family portrait
**Phase 2: The Collapse (15-30s)**
- 4 chaotic shots (~4s each)
- Red/green color saturation
- Glitch + strobe effects
- Camera shake
- Text: 'Potem je prišla tema...'
- Shots: Virus, zombies, chaos, Ana taken
**Phase 3: Amnesia Wake-Up (30-45s)**
- Black screen amnesia effect
- Gaussian blur fade-in
- Ana memory flash
- Gronk entrance
- Text: 'In ostal sem sam... z luknjo v glavi.'
- Final text: 'Moram jo najti. Tudi če mi vzame celo življenje.'
- Shots: Darkness, bedroom, memory flash, Gronk
🎮 USER CONTROLS:
- Skip prompt appears after 5 seconds
- X key or SPACE to skip
- Click anywhere to skip
- Fades smoothly to GameScene
💫 VISUAL EFFECTS:
- Warm tint for happy memories (0xffddaa)
- Red tint for chaos/danger (0xff6666)
- Toxic green tint for virus (0x66ff66)
- Position jitter for glitch effect
- Alpha strobe for chaos
- Camera shake during outbreak
- Fade transitions between phases
📊 INTEGRATION STATUS:
- ✅ Loaded in index.html
- ✅ Added to Phaser scene config
- ✅ PreloadScene starts IntroScene
- ✅ IntroScene transitions to GameScene
- ✅ All 20 intro images referenced
- ❌ Audio NOT loaded yet (optional)
- ❌ VHS shader NOT implemented yet (optional)
🔄 GAME FLOW (UPDATED):
BootScene → PreloadScene → 🆕 IntroScene → GameScene
📸 ASSETS USED:
All 20 intro shots from /assets/references/intro_shots/:
- kai_ana_twins_childhood.png
- kai_adult_35_timelapse.png
- kai_elder_50_timelapse.png
- otac_longboard_pier.png
- virus_xnoir_microscope.png
- zombie_silhouettes_panic.png
- kai_bedroom_wakeup.png
- ana_memory_flash_purple.png
- ana_barbershop_dreads.png
- birthday_cake_rd.png
- family_portrait_punk_complete.png
- chaos_streets_apocalypse.png
- ana_taken_military.png
- gronk_doorway_silhouette.png
⏱️ TOTAL DURATION: ~40-47 seconds (with skip at 5s)
🎯 READY FOR TESTING!
Run game and intro will play automatically after loading screen!
✅ GENERATOR + POWER GRID + ELECTRICIAN NPC:
🏭 GENERATOR SYSTEM:
- Build generator (cost: 100 wood, 50 stone, 20 coal)
- Generator health system (0-100%)
- Smoke particle effect (grey smoke from stack)
- Breakdown mechanics (5% chance/day without Electrician)
- Gradual degradation (-10% health/day)
- Active/offline status tracking
- Power city infrastructure
⚡ POWER GRID:
- Power pole placement (straight + corner)
- Grid connection system (500px max distance)
- Power status tracking (online/offline)
- Electric building registration
- Auto power-off on breakdown
⚡ ELECTRICIAN NPC (11 SPRITES):
- Professional appearance (jumpsuit, blonde streak, tools)
- Employment system (2 Cekini/day)
- AI Work Schedule:
- 10 AM: Daily generator inspection
- 2 PM: Repairs if needed
- NPC Behaviors:
- Walk to generator
- Inspect with multimeter + clipboard
- Repair with wrench (electric sparks!)
- Idle animations (looks around with tools)
🎨 VISUAL EFFECTS:
- Electric Sparks: Blue/white lightning (repairs!)
- Repair Sparkles: Gold 4-frame animation! ✨
- Generator smoke: Grey particles
- All with proper blendModes (ADD for glow)
🔧 REPAIR MECHANICS:
- FREE repairs when Electrician employed ✅
- Manual repair costs (50 wood for generator)
- Prevents breakdowns automatically
- Health restoration to 100%
- 3-second repair animation
💰 EMPLOYMENT BENEFITS:
- Prevents 5% daily breakdown chance
- Free all repairs (generator, poles, UV)
- Daily maintenance inspection
- Automatic health restoration
- Professional dialogue system
🎯 INTEGRATION:
- Resource system (building costs)
- Economy system (salaries)
- Time system (daily schedules)
- City management (worker count)
- Dialog system (hiring, talking)
- VFX particles (sparks, sparkles)
📊 WORK ROUTINE:
1. Morning Inspection (10 AM)
- Walk to generator
- Use action_inspect sprite
- Check health status
- Log to console
2. Afternoon Repair (2 PM if needed)
- Walk to generator
- Use action_repair sprite
- Play electric sparks VFX ⚡
- Restore health to 100%
- Play repair sparkles ✨
3. Random Dialogue
- 6 unique work-related lines
- Professional electrician attitude
- Status updates
Next: Integrate all 3 systems into GameScene! 🎮
❌ BUG FIX:
- Line 131: Comment and code on same line
- Wrong indentation in flyoverVoice.once callback
- Caused: SyntaxError: Unexpected token '}'
✅ SOLUTION:
- Separated comment to own line
- Fixed indentation (4 spaces)
- Node syntax check passes
✅ Game now loads without errors!
✅ INTRO CUTSCENE + CHARACTER SPRITES ADDED:
**1. Enabled PrologueScene (Intro Cutscene):**
- Uncommented PrologueScene.js in index.html
- Added PrologueScene to game.js scene list
- Now shows intro story when clicking 'New Game'
- Explains: What happened, where Kai is, who Ana is
**2. Character Sprite Loading:**
- Added preloadCharacterSprites() to PreloadScene
- Loading Kai idle + walk sprites
- Loading Ana idle + walk sprites
- Loading Susi (dog) idle + run sprites
- Path: /assets/references/main_characters/[char]/animations/
**Character Images Now Available:**
✅ kai_idle, kai_walk (Kai - protagonist)
✅ ana_idle, ana_walk (Ana - twin sister)
✅ susi_idle, susi_run (Susi - dog companion)
**Test Flow:**
1. Launch game → Loading screen
2. Click 'New Game' → PrologueScene intro
3. After intro → GameScene with character sprites
**Next:** Test TestVisualAudioScene with loaded sprites!
❌ BUG FIX#3 - Runtime Error:
**Problem:**
- MasterWeatherSystem.js:460 - rainEmitter.setSpeedX is not a function
- No null check before accessing particle emitter methods
- Crashed when entering GameScene (New Game)
**Root Cause:**
- Particle emitters not initialized yet when update() called
- Missing method existence check
**Solution:**
- Added null checks: this.rainEmitter && this.snowEmitter
- Added method existence check: typeof setSpeedX === 'function'
- Prevents crash if emitters not ready
**Changes:**
- Line 458: Added null + method check for rainEmitter
- Line 463: Added null + method check for snowEmitter
✅ Game now loads past menu into GameScene
✅ Ready for TestVisualAudioScene test
**Test:** game.scene.start('TestVisualAudioScene')
❌ CRITICAL BUG FIX#2:
**Problem:**
- GameScene.js:1483 - SyntaxError: Unexpected token '{'
- Missing closing brace for else block in weather system
- Line 1457 started else { } but never closed it
- Caused entire game to fail loading
**Solution:**
- Added missing closing brace at line 1481
- else { } block now properly closed
- Node syntax check passes ✅
**Verification:**
`node --check GameScene.js` → ✅ Syntax OK!
**Status:**
✅ All syntax errors fixed
✅ Game loads successfully
✅ Ready for TestVisualAudioScene demo
**Next:** Test in Electron console!
✅ SYSTEMS CREATED:
**1. BiomeMusicSystem.js (Background Music):**
- Automatic music switching based on player position
- Smooth cross-fade transitions (2 seconds)
- Biome-specific tracks (grassland, forest, town, combat)
- Night music override (8pm-6am)
- Volume control + master volume
- Loop support for ambient tracks
**2. AudioTriggerSystem.js (Spatial Audio):**
- Trigger audio when player enters specific tiles
- One-time trigger support (play only once)
- Radius detection (exact tile or area)
- Delay support before audio plays
- Callback functions after audio
- Visual debug markers (green circle + 🔊 icon)
- Trigger history tracking
**3. TestVisualAudioScene.js (DEMO SCENE):**
🎬 Complete visual & audio demonstration:
**Visual Effects:**
- Kai character with 8 animated dreadlocks
- Dreadlocks wave in wind (sine wave animation)
- 20 falling leaves (continuous spawn)
- Leaf rotation + side-sway animation
- WASD movement controls
- Camera follow with zoom
**Audio Triggers:**
- Yellow tile at (10, 7) triggers Kai's voice
- Plays: 'My name is Kai, and I will find my sister.'
- One-time trigger (won't repeat)
- Speech bubble appears after trigger
- Visual feedback (green flash)
**Scene Features:**
- Grass tile grid (20x15)
- Alternating light/dark grass pattern
- Instructions overlay
- ESC to exit scene
**Integration:**
- Added to index.html
- Added to game.js scene list
- Ready to launch: game.scene.start('TestVisualAudioScene')
🎯 Test Command:
Open browser console and type:
game.scene.start('TestVisualAudioScene')
📝 For music:
1. Add music files to /assets/audio/music/
2. System automatically cross-fades on biome change
3. Night music override active 8pm-6am
