tmp backgrounds

README.md

@@ -23,11 +23,19 @@ go run .
 ```
 
 ```bash
-go run .                 # the alley scene (beat 3)
+go run .                   # the alley (beat 3)
 go run . -finale           # the finale — try the Nokia-punk theme switch
-go run . -scene alley    # pick a starting scene
+go run . -screen selector  # the location selector: the map the city hangs off
+go run . -screen hospital  # any screen in the deck, e.g. to look at the art
 ```
 
+Screen names are the constants in `internal/names` (`selector`, `paul_shop`,
+`noodle_house`, `alley`, `norman_apartment`, `police_station`, `hackerspace`,
+`ice_cream_shop`, `trinket_shop`, `small_restaurant`, `secret_club`,
+`bbs_terminal`, `street`, `hospital`, `server_farm`, `secret_lab`,
+`rooftop_hideout`, `public_bbs`, `bvk_branch`, `curator_shop`, `scrap_market`,
+`samizdat_press`, `showroom`, `columbarium`).
+
 To work against a local inkwell checkout, add a `replace` line temporarily —
 and take it out before committing:
 
@@ -55,41 +63,58 @@ Release metadata lives in `metadata.json`.
 |---|---|
 | left click | run the selected verb |
 | right click | verb coin (Look / Use / Talk / Take) |
+| `←` `→` | previous / next screen, in concept-art order, wrapping |
 | `F1` | toggle hotspot outlines |
 | `SPACE` | during a cutscene: let the tape speak, if it offered |
 
+The screens are connected to each other (see **The map** below); the arrow keys
+are a reviewing tool on top of that, walking the deck in concept-art order. The
+walk is inert during a cutscene, a menu, or a stopped world, so it can never cut
+across an authored beat.
+
 Screenshots: `EBITEN_SCREENSHOT_KEY=q go run .`, then press `q` in the window.
 
 ## Layout
 
-Internal resolution is **640×400** — the same 16:10 as the wiki's "320×200 VGA
-look" brief and exactly 2× it, so art drawn at 320×200 upscales cleanly.
+Internal resolution is **640×380**: the size of one painted background.
 Integer scaling only; the window opens at 2×.
 
-The doubling is forced by type, not taste. inkwell renders text through a fixed
-**6×16** debug font that the domain cannot replace. At 320×200 a 16px glyph is
-8% of the screen height: rows overlap, and a top bar sized from the wireframe
-deck's proportions cannot hold a single line. At 640×400 the same glyph lands
-at 4%, which is the proportion the design was drawn for.
+That size is not a taste call. inkwell scales a scene background over the
+*whole* screen (`core.engine.go`), not over the region the HUD leaves free — so
+at any screen size other than the art's own, every painting is squashed to fit.
+The deck is drawn at 640×380, so the screen is 640×380 and the art lands pixel
+for pixel. `TestSceneBackgroundsResolve` keeps the two in step: a background of
+any other size fails the build.
+
+It still gives the wiki's "320×200 VGA look" brief what it was after — a low,
+wide VGA frame at an exact 2× of a 320-wide canvas — and it still keeps the
+engine's fixed **6×16** debug font readable, at 4% of the screen height. (At
+320×190 it would be 8%: rows overlap and the top bar cannot hold a line.)
+
+The HUD is therefore an opaque strip laid over the foot of the painting, and it
+is measured from the bottom and kept as short as its contents allow — a status
+row, then the two rows of inventory slots, which are the tallest thing in it.
+Every pixel it gives back is a pixel of art.
 
 ```
      0                                     394│396                    639
    ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
  0 │ ALLEY — paused                              SRP: 1 tape            │ TopBar (20)
 20 ├────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
-   │            scene — hotspots, characters, SpeechBubble              │ Scene (244)
-264├─────────────────────────────────────────┬──────────────────────────┤
+   │            scene — hotspots, characters, SpeechBubble              │ Scene (242)
+262├─────────────────────────────────────────┬──────────────────────────┤
    │ Use hook on: floor grate                │ DEX                      │
-   │ ┌───┬───┬───┬───┐   ┌───────┐┌────────┐ │ "The hook is a hand      │ HUD (136)
+   │ ┌───┬───┬───┬───┐   ┌───────┐┌────────┐ │ "The hook is a hand      │ HUD (118)
    │ └───┴───┴───┴───┘   │ 1 DEX ││ 2  —   │ │  shorter than the gap."  │
-399└─────────────────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────┘
+379└─────────────────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────┘
      InventoryBar          TapeSlots           TapeChannel
 ```
 
-Every vertical measurement derives from `ui.LineH` (glyph cell + leading), not
-from the deck's ratios, so the layout cannot drift out of step with the font
-again — `TestLayoutFitsTheFont` guards it. The tape channel comes out at 5 rows
-of 38 columns, which is about two of Dex's remarks on screen at once.
+Every vertical measurement derives from `ui.LineH` (glyph cell + leading) and
+from `ui.ScreenH`, not from the wireframe deck's ratios, so the layout cannot
+drift out of step with the font — or with the art — again;
+`TestLayoutFitsTheFont` guards it. The tape channel comes out at 4 rows of 38
+columns, which is about one and a half of Dex's remarks on screen at once.
 
 The vertical divider at x=394 is the one proportion carried over from the
 wireframe deck: 61.6% world, 38.4% tape channel. The deck's *vertical*
@@ -149,16 +174,56 @@ Content is one registered entity per file, grouped by kind:
 
 ```
 internal/content/
-  asset/      alley_background.go
+  background/ one file per screen: paul_shop.go, noodle_house.go, …
   character/  paul.go  dex.go  mystery_tape.go  support_tape.go
   item/       noodle_letter.go  black_market_armilla.go  mystery_tape.go
   dialog/     dex_talk.go  mystery_tape_silent.go
   script/     tape_insert.go  awakening_finale.go
-  scene/      alley.go
+  screen/     one file per screen: alley.go, trinket_shop.go, … + exit.go
 ```
 
-Adding a scene means adding `scene/<name>.go` and one line in `scene/scene.go`.
-Nothing else moves.
+Adding a screen means adding `screen/<name>.go` and `background/<name>.go`, and
+one line in each package's list. Nothing else moves.
+
+**On the word "screen".** inkwell's entity is called a `Scene`, and that is the
+type every file in `screen/` returns — but the wiki, the concept-art deck and
+the beat tables all count *screens*, so the package, the files and the flag say
+screen. "Scene" survives only where the code is talking to the engine
+(`world.EnterScene`, `SceneManager`).
+
+Art lives in `assets/bg/` and is embedded into the binary (`main.go`), because
+js/wasm has no OS filesystem and `make binaries` packages the executable alone.
+
+## The map
+
+Where a screen leads is recorded **in that screen**, in its own file, and it
+comes from the wiki's location graph
+(`projects/realworld/story#helyszín-gráf-vázlat`). That graph has two kinds of
+edge and so does the code:
+
+- **Physical adjacency** — the alley is behind Noodle's house, the eating place
+  is next door to the trinket shop, the club is through its back room, the roof
+  is up Norman's stairs. Declared with `to:` in the screen's `exits`.
+- **The selector** — the wiki centres its map on a *Helyszínválasztó*, "nem
+  valódi helyszín, hanem a menü-képernyő": a screen every main location connects
+  to both ways. A screen marks itself `onSelector: true`; `screen/selector.go`
+  builds the other half of each of those edges, so the list of locations on the
+  map is never written down twice.
+
+The wiki's conditional arrows survive too: `needs:` holds the flag an exit waits
+for, which is how *Bolt →|beengedés| Klub* is expressed — the way into the club
+is visible and named from the first visit, and stays shut until the shopkeeper
+has been shown the underwater sun.
+
+Until the doors are measured on the paintings, an exit is a strip along one edge
+of the picture (`sideLeft`, `sideRight`, `sideBack`, `sideNear`) — the
+convention every 1990s point & click used, and one field to re-aim later. A
+screen reached from several rooms has no fixed way out: the BBS terminal is the
+same terminal from the club, the flat or the roof, so its exit is `back`.
+
+Three tests keep the map honest: every exit names a registered screen, every
+screen has a way out, and every screen can be walked to from Paul's shop through
+the exits alone — the arrow keys do not count.
 
 ## Engine workarounds
 
@@ -205,7 +270,19 @@ Also: the inkwell README gives the module path as
 
 ## Known gaps
 
-- **No art.** Everything is an inkwell placeholder.
+- **The HUD still covers the foot of every painting.** The art is no longer
+  stretched, but the strip is opaque and 118px of the 380 sit on top of the
+  picture. Either the deck gets recut so nothing that matters lives in its
+  bottom third, or the HUD gets a translucent panel treatment.
+- **The screens are empty.** 22 backgrounds are in and they are wired to each
+  other, but only the alley has hotspots, NPCs and dialogue; everywhere else
+  there is nothing to do but leave again.
+- **The selector has no art.** The wiki's Helyszínválasztó is the centre of the
+  map and the deck does not include it, so it renders as a placeholder with one
+  labelled pin per location on a plain grid.
+- **Two screens are missing from the deck.** The alley (the one authored beat)
+  and deck 05, Norman's workplace — which is in the wiki's catalogue but has no
+  screen file yet, so the workplace thread of the story has nowhere to happen.
 - **Spent dialogue choices are hidden, not struck through.** `DialogueChoice.Once`
   hides them; the deck wanted them struck through but visible, so the list
   becomes a memory of what you already tried. Needs a thin override over

internal/boot/boot.go

@@ -14,15 +14,15 @@ import (
 
 // Opts are the run parameters.
 type Opts struct {
-	Scene  string // starting scene; empty means the alley
+	Screen string // starting screen; empty means the alley
 	Finale bool   // start with the finale, to try the Nokia-punk theme switch
 }
 
 // New builds a ready-to-run game.
 func New(o Opts) *inkwell.Game {
-	scene := o.Scene
-	if scene == "" {
-		scene = names.SceneAlley
+	screen := o.Screen
+	if screen == "" {
+		screen = names.ScreenAlley
 	}
 
 	g := inkwell.NewGame("Real World", ui.ScreenW, ui.ScreenH)
@@ -35,16 +35,16 @@ func New(o Opts) *inkwell.Game {
 	g.UseTheme(theme.RealWorld)
 	ui.Register(w)
 
-	g.StartAt(scene)
-	g.OnStart(inkwell.Seq(opening(w, scene, o.Finale)...))
+	g.StartAt(screen)
+	g.OnStart(inkwell.Seq(opening(w, screen, o.Finale)...))
 	return g
 }
 
-func opening(w *world.World, scene string, finale bool) []inkwell.Action {
+func opening(w *world.World, screen string, finale bool) []inkwell.Action {
 	acts := []inkwell.Action{
-		world.EnterScene(w, scene),
-		// Beat 2 (the police station) will set the tip flag. Until that scene
-		// exists we set it here so the alley slice is playable end to end —
+		world.EnterScene(w, screen),
+		// Beat 2 (the police station) will set the tip flag. Until that beat
+		// is written we set it here so the alley slice is playable end to end —
 		// the conditional branch itself is real code, not bypassed.
 		inkwell.SetFlag(names.FlagPoliceTip),
 		inkwell.Say(names.Paul, "Back alley. Just like the clerk said."),

internal/boot/boot_test.go

@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
 package boot_test
 
 import (
+	"image/png"
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"strings"
 	"testing"
 
 	inkwell "git.teletypegames.org/engines/inkwell"
@@ -136,3 +140,121 @@ func TestWidgetOrder(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Errorf("cursor is not registered last: %v", n)
 	}
 }
+
+// Every screen needs a background, the drawn ones need the file to be where the
+// asset says it is, and the file has to be exactly screen-sized.
+//
+// The path check: a renamed or mistyped path shows up in the running game only
+// as an inkwell placeholder, which is exactly what a still-greyboxed screen
+// looks like — invisible as a bug.
+//
+// The size check: the engine scales a background over the WHOLE screen, so a
+// painting that is not ScreenW×ScreenH is silently squashed to fit. That is why
+// the screen is 640×380 in the first place; this keeps the two in step.
+func TestSceneBackgroundsResolve(t *testing.T) {
+	g := build(t)
+
+	// Not drawn yet: these render as placeholders on purpose. The alley is
+	// missing from the concept-art deck; the selector is the wiki's menu
+	// screen, which the deck does not cover at all.
+	undrawn := map[string]bool{names.BgAlley: true, names.BgSelector: true}
+
+	for _, n := range g.SceneManager.Names() {
+		s := g.SceneManager.MustGet(n)
+		a, ok := g.AssetManager.Get(s.Background)
+		if !ok {
+			t.Errorf("scene %q: unknown background %q", n, s.Background)
+			continue
+		}
+		if undrawn[a.Name] {
+			continue
+		}
+		f, err := os.Open(filepath.Join("..", "..", a.Path))
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Errorf("scene %q: background file missing: %v", n, err)
+			continue
+		}
+		cfg, err := png.DecodeConfig(f)
+		f.Close()
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Errorf("scene %q: unreadable background: %v", n, err)
+			continue
+		}
+		if cfg.Width != ui.ScreenW || cfg.Height != ui.ScreenH {
+			t.Errorf("scene %q: background is %d×%d, want %d×%d — it will be stretched",
+				n, cfg.Width, cfg.Height, ui.ScreenW, ui.ScreenH)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// exits reads the connection graph back out of the registered screens. The
+// exit hotspots are named "exit:<target>", which is what keeps the graph
+// machine-readable — see content/screen/exit.go.
+func exits(g *inkwell.Game, screen string) []string {
+	var out []string
+	for _, h := range g.SceneManager.MustGet(screen).Hotspots {
+		if to, ok := strings.CutPrefix(h.Name, "exit:"); ok && to != "back" {
+			out = append(out, to)
+		}
+	}
+	return out
+}
+
+// An exit that names a screen nobody registered is a dead end the player walks
+// into: the engine logs "changeScene: unknown" and nothing happens on screen.
+func TestExitsResolve(t *testing.T) {
+	g := build(t)
+	for _, n := range g.SceneManager.Names() {
+		for _, to := range exits(g, n) {
+			if !g.SceneManager.Has(to) {
+				t.Errorf("screen %q: exit to unknown screen %q", n, to)
+			}
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// Every screen has to be walkable to from the start of the game, through the
+// exits alone — the arrow keys are a browsing tool, not the map. A screen that
+// only the arrow keys can reach is content no player would ever see.
+//
+// The walk starts at Paul's shop, where the letter arrives, and mostly runs
+// through the selector: that is what the wiki's location graph is centred on.
+func TestEveryScreenIsReachable(t *testing.T) {
+	g := build(t)
+
+	seen := map[string]bool{names.ScreenPaulShop: true}
+	queue := []string{names.ScreenPaulShop}
+	for len(queue) > 0 {
+		at := queue[0]
+		queue = queue[1:]
+		for _, to := range exits(g, at) {
+			if !seen[to] && g.SceneManager.Has(to) {
+				seen[to] = true
+				queue = append(queue, to)
+			}
+		}
+	}
+
+	for _, n := range g.SceneManager.Names() {
+		if !seen[n] {
+			t.Errorf("screen %q cannot be reached from %q by its exits", n, names.ScreenPaulShop)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// A screen with no way out at all is a trap: the player walks in and the only
+// way on is the debug walk.
+func TestEveryScreenHasAWayOut(t *testing.T) {
+	g := build(t)
+	for _, n := range g.SceneManager.Names() {
+		var ways int
+		for _, h := range g.SceneManager.MustGet(n).Hotspots {
+			if strings.HasPrefix(h.Name, "exit:") {
+				ways++
+			}
+		}
+		if ways == 0 {
+			t.Errorf("screen %q has no exit", n)
+		}
+	}
+}

internal/content/asset/alley_background.go

@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
-package asset
-
-import (
-	inkwell "git.teletypegames.org/engines/inkwell"
-
-	"git.teletypegames.org/games/realworld/internal/names"
-)
-
-// alleyBackground is the alley behind Noodle's house (beat 3).
-func alleyBackground() inkwell.Asset {
-	return inkwell.Asset{
-		Name: names.AssetAlleyBG,
-		Path: "assets/bg/alley.png",
-		Kind: inkwell.AssetImage,
-	}
-}

internal/content/asset/asset.go

@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
-// Package asset registers the game's assets.
-//
-// During the greybox phase no asset file exists on disk: inkwell draws a
-// placeholder when a sprite is missing, which is exactly the wireframe deck's
-// dashed-outline convention, for free. Only the registration has to exist —
-// Game.Validate requires every scene background to name a registered asset.
-package asset
-
-import (
-	inkwell "git.teletypegames.org/engines/inkwell"
-
-	"git.teletypegames.org/games/realworld/internal/world"
-)
-
-// Register adds every asset to the game.
-func Register(w *world.World) {
-	for _, a := range []inkwell.Asset{
-		alleyBackground(),
-	} {
-		w.G.AssetManager.Register(a)
-	}
-}

internal/content/background/alley.go

@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+package background
+
+import (
+	inkwell "git.teletypegames.org/engines/inkwell"
+
+	"git.teletypegames.org/games/realworld/internal/names"
+)
+
+// alley — part of the catalogue's "Noodle háza & a sikátor" row — not in the deck.
+//
+// Not painted yet: the file is missing on purpose, and inkwell draws its
+// placeholder instead — which is exactly the greybox convention.
+func alley() inkwell.Asset {
+	return inkwell.Asset{
+		Name: names.BgAlley,
+		Path: "assets/bg/alley.png",
+		Kind: inkwell.AssetImage,
+	}
+}

internal/content/background/background.go

@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+// Package background registers one image asset per screen — one file each.
+//
+// A background is the whole of a screen's art: inkwell scales it over the
+// entire window, so every file here points at a 640×380 PNG under assets/bg/,
+// the size the concept-art deck is drawn at. Two of them are not painted yet
+// and fall back to inkwell's placeholder.
+//
+// The order below is the deck's, which is the wiki's location-catalogue order
+// (projects/realworld/entities#helyszinek).
+package background
+
+import (
+	inkwell "git.teletypegames.org/engines/inkwell"
+
+	"git.teletypegames.org/games/realworld/internal/world"
+)
+
+// Register adds every background to the game.
+func Register(w *world.World) {
+	for _, a := range []inkwell.Asset{
+		selector(),
+		paulShop(),
+		noodleHouse(),
+		normanApartment(),
+		policeStation(),
+		alley(),
+		hackerspace(),
+		iceCreamShop(),
+		trinketShop(),
+		smallRestaurant(),
+		secretClub(),
+		bbsTerminal(),
+		street(),
+		hospital(),
+		serverFarm(),
+		secretLab(),
+		rooftopHideout(),
+		publicBbs(),
+		bvkBranch(),
+		curatorShop(),
+		scrapMarket(),
+		samizdatPress(),
+		showroom(),
+		columbarium(),
+	} {
+		w.G.AssetManager.Register(a)
+	}
+}

internal/content/background/bbs_terminal.go

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+package background
+
+import (
+	inkwell "git.teletypegames.org/engines/inkwell"
+
+	"git.teletypegames.org/games/realworld/internal/names"
+)
+
+// bbsTerminal — deck 11.
+func bbsTerminal() inkwell.Asset {
+	return inkwell.Asset{
+		Name: names.BgBBSTerminal,
+		Path: "assets/bg/bbs_terminal.png",
+		Kind: inkwell.AssetImage,
+	}
+}

internal/content/background/bvk_branch.go

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+package background
+
+import (
+	inkwell "git.teletypegames.org/engines/inkwell"
+
+	"git.teletypegames.org/games/realworld/internal/names"
+)
+
+// bvkBranch — deck 18.
+func bvkBranch() inkwell.Asset {
+	return inkwell.Asset{
+		Name: names.BgBVKBranch,
+		Path: "assets/bg/bvk_branch.png",
+		Kind: inkwell.AssetImage,
+	}
+}

internal/content/background/columbarium.go

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+package background
+
+import (
+	inkwell "git.teletypegames.org/engines/inkwell"
+
+	"git.teletypegames.org/games/realworld/internal/names"
+)
+
+// columbarium — deck 23.
+func columbarium() inkwell.Asset {
+	return inkwell.Asset{
+		Name: names.BgColumbarium,
+		Path: "assets/bg/columbarium.png",
+		Kind: inkwell.AssetImage,
+	}
+}

internal/content/background/curator_shop.go

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+package background
+
+import (
+	inkwell "git.teletypegames.org/engines/inkwell"
+
+	"git.teletypegames.org/games/realworld/internal/names"
+)
+
+// curatorShop — deck 19.
+func curatorShop() inkwell.Asset {
+	return inkwell.Asset{
+		Name: names.BgCuratorShop,
+		Path: "assets/bg/curator_shop.png",
+		Kind: inkwell.AssetImage,
+	}
+}

internal/content/background/hackerspace.go

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+package background
+
+import (
+	inkwell "git.teletypegames.org/engines/inkwell"
+
+	"git.teletypegames.org/games/realworld/internal/names"
+)
+
+// hackerspace — deck 06.
+func hackerspace() inkwell.Asset {
+	return inkwell.Asset{
+		Name: names.BgHackerspace,
+		Path: "assets/bg/hackerspace.png",
+		Kind: inkwell.AssetImage,
+	}
+}

internal/content/background/hospital.go

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+package background
+
+import (
+	inkwell "git.teletypegames.org/engines/inkwell"
+
+	"git.teletypegames.org/games/realworld/internal/names"
+)
+
+// hospital — deck 13.
+func hospital() inkwell.Asset {
+	return inkwell.Asset{
+		Name: names.BgHospital,
+		Path: "assets/bg/hospital.png",
+		Kind: inkwell.AssetImage,
+	}
+}

internal/content/background/ice_cream_shop.go

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+package background
+
+import (
+	inkwell "git.teletypegames.org/engines/inkwell"
+
+	"git.teletypegames.org/games/realworld/internal/names"
+)
+
+// iceCreamShop — deck 07.
+func iceCreamShop() inkwell.Asset {
+	return inkwell.Asset{
+		Name: names.BgIceCreamShop,
+		Path: "assets/bg/ice_cream_shop.png",
+		Kind: inkwell.AssetImage,
+	}
+}

internal/content/background/noodle_house.go

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+package background
+
+import (
+	inkwell "git.teletypegames.org/engines/inkwell"
+
+	"git.teletypegames.org/games/realworld/internal/names"
+)
+
+// noodleHouse — deck 02.
+func noodleHouse() inkwell.Asset {
+	return inkwell.Asset{
+		Name: names.BgNoodleHouse,
+		Path: "assets/bg/noodle_house.png",
+		Kind: inkwell.AssetImage,
+	}
+}

internal/content/background/norman_apartment.go

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+package background
+
+import (
+	inkwell "git.teletypegames.org/engines/inkwell"
+
+	"git.teletypegames.org/games/realworld/internal/names"
+)
+
+// normanApartment — deck 03.
+func normanApartment() inkwell.Asset {
+	return inkwell.Asset{
+		Name: names.BgNormanApartment,
+		Path: "assets/bg/norman_apartment.png",
+		Kind: inkwell.AssetImage,
+	}
+}

internal/content/background/paul_shop.go

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+package background
+
+import (
+	inkwell "git.teletypegames.org/engines/inkwell"
+
+	"git.teletypegames.org/games/realworld/internal/names"
+)
+
+// paulShop — deck 01.
+func paulShop() inkwell.Asset {
+	return inkwell.Asset{
+		Name: names.BgPaulShop,
+		Path: "assets/bg/paul_shop.png",
+		Kind: inkwell.AssetImage,
+	}
+}

internal/content/background/police_station.go

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+package background
+
+import (
+	inkwell "git.teletypegames.org/engines/inkwell"
+
+	"git.teletypegames.org/games/realworld/internal/names"
+)
+
+// policeStation — deck 04.
+func policeStation() inkwell.Asset {
+	return inkwell.Asset{
+		Name: names.BgPoliceStation,
+		Path: "assets/bg/police_station.png",
+		Kind: inkwell.AssetImage,
+	}
+}

internal/content/background/public_bbs.go

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+package background
+
+import (
+	inkwell "git.teletypegames.org/engines/inkwell"
+
+	"git.teletypegames.org/games/realworld/internal/names"
+)
+
+// publicBbs — deck 17.
+func publicBbs() inkwell.Asset {
+	return inkwell.Asset{
+		Name: names.BgPublicBBS,
+		Path: "assets/bg/public_bbs.png",
+		Kind: inkwell.AssetImage,
+	}
+}

internal/content/background/rooftop_hideout.go

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+package background
+
+import (
+	inkwell "git.teletypegames.org/engines/inkwell"
+
+	"git.teletypegames.org/games/realworld/internal/names"
+)
+
+// rooftopHideout — deck 16.
+func rooftopHideout() inkwell.Asset {
+	return inkwell.Asset{
+		Name: names.BgRooftopHideout,
+		Path: "assets/bg/rooftop_hideout.png",
+		Kind: inkwell.AssetImage,
+	}
+}

internal/content/background/samizdat_press.go

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+package background
+
+import (
+	inkwell "git.teletypegames.org/engines/inkwell"
+
+	"git.teletypegames.org/games/realworld/internal/names"
+)
+
+// samizdatPress — deck 21.
+func samizdatPress() inkwell.Asset {
+	return inkwell.Asset{
+		Name: names.BgSamizdatPress,
+		Path: "assets/bg/samizdat_press.png",
+		Kind: inkwell.AssetImage,
+	}
+}

internal/content/background/scrap_market.go

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+package background
+
+import (
+	inkwell "git.teletypegames.org/engines/inkwell"
+
+	"git.teletypegames.org/games/realworld/internal/names"
+)
+
+// scrapMarket — deck 20.
+func scrapMarket() inkwell.Asset {
+	return inkwell.Asset{
+		Name: names.BgScrapMarket,
+		Path: "assets/bg/scrap_market.png",
+		Kind: inkwell.AssetImage,
+	}
+}

internal/content/background/secret_club.go

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+package background
+
+import (
+	inkwell "git.teletypegames.org/engines/inkwell"
+
+	"git.teletypegames.org/games/realworld/internal/names"
+)
+
+// secretClub — deck 10.
+func secretClub() inkwell.Asset {
+	return inkwell.Asset{
+		Name: names.BgSecretClub,
+		Path: "assets/bg/secret_club.png",
+		Kind: inkwell.AssetImage,
+	}
+}

internal/content/background/secret_lab.go

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+package background
+
+import (
+	inkwell "git.teletypegames.org/engines/inkwell"
+
+	"git.teletypegames.org/games/realworld/internal/names"
+)
+
+// secretLab — deck 15.
+func secretLab() inkwell.Asset {
+	return inkwell.Asset{
+		Name: names.BgSecretLab,
+		Path: "assets/bg/secret_lab.png",
+		Kind: inkwell.AssetImage,
+	}
+}

internal/content/background/selector.go

@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+package background
+
+import (
+	inkwell "git.teletypegames.org/engines/inkwell"
+
+	"git.teletypegames.org/games/realworld/internal/names"
+)
+
+// selector — the wiki's Helyszínválasztó — no deck number, and not drawn.
+//
+// Not painted yet: the file is missing on purpose, and inkwell draws its
+// placeholder instead — which is exactly the greybox convention.
+func selector() inkwell.Asset {
+	return inkwell.Asset{
+		Name: names.BgSelector,
+		Path: "assets/bg/selector.png",
+		Kind: inkwell.AssetImage,
+	}
+}

internal/content/background/server_farm.go

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+package background
+
+import (
+	inkwell "git.teletypegames.org/engines/inkwell"
+
+	"git.teletypegames.org/games/realworld/internal/names"
+)
+
+// serverFarm — deck 14.
+func serverFarm() inkwell.Asset {
+	return inkwell.Asset{
+		Name: names.BgServerFarm,
+		Path: "assets/bg/server_farm.png",
+		Kind: inkwell.AssetImage,
+	}
+}

internal/content/background/showroom.go

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+package background
+
+import (
+	inkwell "git.teletypegames.org/engines/inkwell"
+
+	"git.teletypegames.org/games/realworld/internal/names"
+)
+
+// showroom — deck 22.
+func showroom() inkwell.Asset {
+	return inkwell.Asset{
+		Name: names.BgShowroom,
+		Path: "assets/bg/showroom.png",
+		Kind: inkwell.AssetImage,
+	}
+}

internal/content/background/small_restaurant.go

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+package background
+
+import (
+	inkwell "git.teletypegames.org/engines/inkwell"
+
+	"git.teletypegames.org/games/realworld/internal/names"
+)
+
+// smallRestaurant — deck 09.
+func smallRestaurant() inkwell.Asset {
+	return inkwell.Asset{
+		Name: names.BgSmallRestaurant,
+		Path: "assets/bg/small_restaurant.png",
+		Kind: inkwell.AssetImage,
+	}
+}

internal/content/background/street.go

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+package background
+
+import (
+	inkwell "git.teletypegames.org/engines/inkwell"
+
+	"git.teletypegames.org/games/realworld/internal/names"
+)
+
+// street — deck 12.
+func street() inkwell.Asset {
+	return inkwell.Asset{
+		Name: names.BgStreet,
+		Path: "assets/bg/street.png",
+		Kind: inkwell.AssetImage,
+	}
+}

internal/content/background/trinket_shop.go

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+package background
+
+import (
+	inkwell "git.teletypegames.org/engines/inkwell"
+
+	"git.teletypegames.org/games/realworld/internal/names"
+)
+
+// trinketShop — deck 08.
+func trinketShop() inkwell.Asset {
+	return inkwell.Asset{
+		Name: names.BgTrinketShop,
+		Path: "assets/bg/trinket_shop.png",
+		Kind: inkwell.AssetImage,
+	}
+}

internal/content/content.go

@@ -2,27 +2,27 @@
 // assets, characters, items, dialogues, scripts and scenes.
 //
 // Each registered entity lives in its own file, under a subpackage named after
-// its kind. Adding a scene means adding scene/<name>.go and one line in
-// scene/scene.go — nothing else moves.
+// its kind. Adding a screen means adding screen/<name>.go, background/<name>.go
+// and one line in each package's list — nothing else moves.
 package content
 
 import (
-	"git.teletypegames.org/games/realworld/internal/content/asset"
+	"git.teletypegames.org/games/realworld/internal/content/background"
 	"git.teletypegames.org/games/realworld/internal/content/character"
 	"git.teletypegames.org/games/realworld/internal/content/dialog"
 	"git.teletypegames.org/games/realworld/internal/content/item"
-	"git.teletypegames.org/games/realworld/internal/content/scene"
+	"git.teletypegames.org/games/realworld/internal/content/screen"
 	"git.teletypegames.org/games/realworld/internal/content/script"
 	"git.teletypegames.org/games/realworld/internal/world"
 )
 
-// Register adds every entity to the game. Order matters only in that scenes
-// reference assets and characters, which Game.Validate cross-checks.
+// Register adds every entity to the game. Order matters only in that screens
+// reference backgrounds and characters, which Game.Validate cross-checks.
 func Register(w *world.World) {
-	asset.Register(w)
+	background.Register(w)
 	character.Register(w)
 	item.Register(w)
 	dialog.Register(w)
 	script.Register(w)
-	scene.Register(w)
+	screen.Register(w)
 }

internal/content/scene/scene.go

@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-// Package scene registers the game's scenes.
-package scene
-
-import (
-	inkwell "git.teletypegames.org/engines/inkwell"
-
-	"git.teletypegames.org/games/realworld/internal/world"
-)
-
-// Register adds every scene to the game.
-func Register(w *world.World) {
-	for _, s := range []inkwell.Scene{
-		alley(w),
-	} {
-		w.G.SceneManager.Register(s)
-	}
-}
-
-// setVarIfEmpty only writes when the variable is still unset, so re-entering a
-// scene does not clobber what the game has set in the meantime.
-func setVarIfEmpty(name string, v any) inkwell.Action {
-	return world.Fn(func(ctx *inkwell.Ctx) {
-		if ctx.Game.State.Var(name) == nil {
-			ctx.Game.State.SetVar(name, v)
-		}
-	})
-}

internal/content/screen/alley.go

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-package scene
+package screen
 
 import (
 	inkwell "git.teletypegames.org/engines/inkwell"
@@ -7,33 +7,28 @@ import (
 	"git.teletypegames.org/games/realworld/internal/world"
 )
 
-// alley is the alley behind Noodle's house — beat 3, and the vertical slice
-// the whole HUD is measured against: hotspots, a gated pickup, the two-slot
+// alley is the alley behind Noodle's house — beat 3, and the vertical slice the
+// whole HUD is measured against: hotspots, a gated pickup, the two-slot
 // Armilla, tape dialogue and an authored failure.
-func alley(w *world.World) inkwell.Scene {
-	return inkwell.Scene{
-		Name:       names.SceneAlley,
-		Title:      "ALLEY — BEHIND NOODLE'S HOUSE",
-		Background: names.AssetAlleyBG,
-		Actors: []inkwell.SceneActor{
+//
+// The wiki keeps it in the same catalogue row as the house ("Noodle háza & a
+// sikátor") and its graph has one arrow in, NoodleUtcafront → Sikátor, so the
+// only way out is back to the street. The alley's own locked back door is the
+// New Game+ hook and leads to a room the deck has not painted.
+func alley() screen {
+	return screen{
+		name:       names.ScreenAlley,
+		title:      "ALLEY — BEHIND NOODLE'S HOUSE",
+		background: names.BgAlley,
+		exits: []exit{
+			// On the left: the back door hotspot below owns the other end.
+			{to: names.ScreenNoodleHouse, label: "back out to the street", side: sideLeft},
+		},
+		actors: []inkwell.SceneActor{
 			{CharacterName: names.Paul, At: inkwell.Point{X: 120, Y: 232}},
 		},
-		Walkboxes: []inkwell.Polygon{
-			inkwell.Poly(
-				inkwell.Point{X: 16, Y: 196}, inkwell.Point{X: 624, Y: 196},
-				inkwell.Point{X: 624, Y: 258}, inkwell.Point{X: 16, Y: 258},
-			),
-		},
-		OnEnter: inkwell.Seq(
-			world.EnterScene(w, names.SceneAlley),
-			setVarIfEmpty(names.VarArmillaStrip, "SRP: 1 tape"),
-		),
-		Hotspots: []inkwell.Hotspot{
-			hidingPlace(),
-			backDoor(),
-			bin(),
-			fireEscape(),
-		},
+		onEnter:  setVarIfEmpty(names.VarArmillaStrip, "SRP: 1 tape"),
+		hotspots: []inkwell.Hotspot{hidingPlace(), backDoor(), bin(), fireEscape()},
 	}
 }
 

internal/content/screen/bbs_terminal.go

@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+package screen
+
+import "git.teletypegames.org/games/realworld/internal/names"
+
+// bbsTerminal is the screen you get when Paul sits down at a terminal: the
+// catalogue calls it a "Tárgy/portál", a physical object in the world that
+// opens the SPOKE — BBS surface (wiki: entities#helyszinek).
+//
+// It is the same screen wherever the terminal stands — the club's ECHO box,
+// Norman's machine at the flat, the old one on the roof — which is why its way
+// out is "back", and not a place.
+func bbsTerminal() screen {
+	return screen{
+		name:       names.ScreenBBSTerminal,
+		title:      "TERMINAL — BBS ACCESS POINT",
+		background: names.BgBBSTerminal,
+		exits: []exit{
+			{label: "step back from the terminal", side: sideNear},
+		},
+	}
+}

internal/content/screen/bvk_branch.go

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+package screen
+
+import "git.teletypegames.org/games/realworld/internal/names"
+
+// bvkBranch is a 💡 suggestion: the local certification office, imprimatur
+// stamps and licence checks and numbered waiting rooms — everything a man with
+// a jailbroken two-slot Armilla should stay away from
+// (wiki: entities#potenciális-további-helyszínek).
+func bvkBranch() screen {
+	return screen{
+		name:       names.ScreenBVKBranch,
+		title:      "BVK — SAN FRANCISCO BRANCH",
+		background: names.BgBVKBranch,
+		onSelector: true,
+	}
+}

internal/content/screen/columbarium.go

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+package screen
+
+import "git.teletypegames.org/games/realworld/internal/names"
+
+// columbarium is a 💡 suggestion: where Dex is buried. A quiet place, away
+// from the noise of the terminals — the loss-and-letting-go thread, which is
+// the same thread as Norman and The AI
+// (wiki: entities#potenciális-további-helyszínek).
+func columbarium() screen {
+	return screen{
+		name:       names.ScreenColumbarium,
+		title:      "COLUMBARIUM — DEX'S MEMORIAL",
+		background: names.BgColumbarium,
+		onSelector: true,
+	}
+}

internal/content/screen/curator_shop.go

@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+package screen
+
+import "git.teletypegames.org/games/realworld/internal/names"
+
+// curatorShop is a 💡 suggestion: the last workshop of the declining curators'
+// guild — quartz tuning, tape repair, craft handed down for generations. The
+// man who built Paul's second slot (wiki: entities#potenciális-további-helyszínek).
+func curatorShop() screen {
+	return screen{
+		name:       names.ScreenCuratorShop,
+		title:      "CURATOR SERVICE — THE MASTER'S WORKSHOP",
+		background: names.BgCuratorShop,
+		onSelector: true,
+	}
+}

internal/content/screen/exit.go

@@ -0,0 +1,109 @@
+package screen
+
+// Exits — the connections between screens.
+//
+// Where a screen leads is recorded in that screen's own file, and it comes from
+// the wiki's location graph (projects/realworld/story#helyszín-gráf-vázlat).
+// That graph has two kinds of edge, and so does this file:
+//
+//   - Physical adjacency. The alley is behind Noodle's house; the club is
+//     through the back of the trinket shop; the noodle place is next door to
+//     it. These are the arrows the wiki draws between locations, and they are
+//     declared with `to`.
+//   - The selector. The wiki centres its map on a "Helyszínválasztó" — not a
+//     real location but the menu screen every main location connects to both
+//     ways. A screen marks itself with onSelector; selector.go builds the other
+//     half of each of those edges.
+//
+// Some of the wiki's arrows are one-way with a condition on them ("beengedés",
+// "NG+ kód", "Sumphor liftkódja"). `needs` carries that: the exit is there, and
+// says so, but will not open until the flag is set.
+//
+// Until the doors are measured on the paintings, an exit is a strip along one
+// edge of the picture — the convention every 1990s point & click used, and a
+// one-field change to re-aim at a real door later.
+
+import (
+	inkwell "git.teletypegames.org/engines/inkwell"
+
+	"git.teletypegames.org/games/realworld/internal/names"
+	"git.teletypegames.org/games/realworld/internal/world"
+)
+
+type side int
+
+const (
+	sideLeft  side = iota // off the left edge
+	sideRight             // off the right edge
+	sideBack              // into the depth of the picture
+	sideNear              // out towards the camera
+)
+
+// area is the strip of picture the exit occupies, inside the scene region
+// (below the top bar at y=20, above the HUD divider at y=262).
+func (s side) area() inkwell.Shape {
+	switch s {
+	case sideLeft:
+		return inkwell.Rect(0, 40, 56, 212)
+	case sideRight:
+		return inkwell.Rect(584, 40, 56, 212)
+	case sideBack:
+		return inkwell.Rect(232, 28, 176, 84)
+	default: // sideNear
+		return inkwell.Rect(232, 214, 176, 48)
+	}
+}
+
+// exit is one way out of a screen.
+type exit struct {
+	to    string // the screen it leads to; empty means "back the way you came"
+	label string // what the status line calls it
+	side  side
+
+	// area overrides the edge strip. The selector's map pins use it; nothing
+	// else should need to until the art arrives.
+	area inkwell.Shape
+
+	// needs is a flag that has to be set before the exit opens, and blocked is
+	// what Paul says while it is not.
+	needs   string
+	blocked string
+}
+
+// toSelector is the way back out to the rest of the city, on every screen the
+// wiki's Helyszínválasztó lists.
+func toSelector() exit {
+	return exit{to: names.ScreenSelector, label: "the rest of the city", side: sideNear}
+}
+
+// exitName is how a connection stays machine-readable: the graph can be read
+// straight back out of the registered scenes, so a test can walk it.
+func exitName(to string) string {
+	if to == "" {
+		return "exit:back"
+	}
+	return "exit:" + to
+}
+
+func (e exit) hotspot(w *world.World) inkwell.Hotspot {
+	var travel inkwell.Action = inkwell.GoTo(e.to)
+	if e.to == "" {
+		travel = world.Back(w)
+	}
+	if e.needs != "" {
+		travel = inkwell.If(inkwell.Flag(e.needs), travel, inkwell.Say(names.Paul, e.blocked))
+	}
+	area := e.area
+	if area == nil {
+		area = e.side.area()
+	}
+	return inkwell.Hotspot{
+		Name:   exitName(e.to),
+		Label:  e.label,
+		Area:   area,
+		Cursor: inkwell.CursorExit,
+		OnLook: inkwell.Say(names.Paul, "That way: "+e.label+"."),
+		OnUse:  travel,
+		OnTake: inkwell.Say(names.Paul, "It's a way out, not a thing."),
+	}
+}

internal/content/screen/hackerspace.go

@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+package screen
+
+import "git.teletypegames.org/games/realworld/internal/names"
+
+// hackerspace: the community workshop at the edge of the Mission, printers and
+// stripped servers and paranoid amateur cryptographers. Where the server-farm
+// access tape can be had (wiki: entities#helyszinek, timeline 24).
+//
+// The wiki's graph gives it no physical neighbour, so it hangs off the
+// selector like every other main location.
+func hackerspace() screen {
+	return screen{
+		name:       names.ScreenHackerspace,
+		title:      "HACKERSPACE",
+		background: names.BgHackerspace,
+		onSelector: true,
+	}
+}

internal/content/screen/hospital.go

@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+package screen
+
+import "git.teletypegames.org/games/realworld/internal/names"
+
+// hospital is the clinical dead end: Dr. Maren looked for a medical reason for
+// Norman's state and did not find one (wiki: entities, timeline 21).
+func hospital() screen {
+	return screen{
+		name:       names.ScreenHospital,
+		title:      "HOSPITAL — PSYCHIATRIC WING",
+		background: names.BgHospital,
+		onSelector: true,
+	}
+}

internal/content/screen/ice_cream_shop.go

@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+package screen
+
+import "git.teletypegames.org/games/realworld/internal/names"
+
+// iceCreamShop stands where Paul's old bar used to be, and they insist there
+// never was a bar. The BVK-registered terminal in the corner is the one the
+// candy-crush guy will not give up (wiki: story, the Fagyizó beat).
+//
+// The search he eventually allows is what names the club — a lead, not a door:
+// the way there is the trinket shop's address, so this screen has no exit of
+// its own.
+func iceCreamShop() screen {
+	return screen{
+		name:       names.ScreenIceCreamShop,
+		title:      "ICE CREAM SHOP — WHERE THE BAR WAS",
+		background: names.BgIceCreamShop,
+		onSelector: true,
+	}
+}

internal/content/screen/noodle_house.go

@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+package screen
+
+import "git.teletypegames.org/games/realworld/internal/names"
+
+// noodleHouse is the street front outside Noodle's place. By the time Paul
+// gets there the police have sealed the house and taken Noodle in, and a
+// uniform stands in front of the tape (wiki: story#noodle-szál).
+//
+// The wiki's graph runs NoodleUtcafront → Sikátor: the alley behind the house
+// is reached from here, and from nowhere else.
+func noodleHouse() screen {
+	return screen{
+		name:       names.ScreenNoodleHouse,
+		title:      "NOODLE'S HOUSE — SEALED",
+		background: names.BgNoodleHouse,
+		onSelector: true,
+		exits: []exit{
+			{to: names.ScreenAlley, label: "the alley behind the house", side: sideRight},
+		},
+	}
+}

internal/content/screen/norman_apartment.go

@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+package screen
+
+import "git.teletypegames.org/games/realworld/internal/names"
+
+// normanApartment is the flat Norman was taken from: his Armilla left behind
+// on the side, his Personal Tape missing from it, his terminal full of the
+// correspondence and the diary (wiki: story#norman-lakása).
+//
+// Two ways on from here. His terminal is one of the BBS access points the
+// catalogue lists ("a titkos klub ECHO-terminálja; később Norman lakása /
+// tetőterasz"), and the roof hideout is up his own stairs.
+func normanApartment() screen {
+	return screen{
+		name:       names.ScreenNormanApartment,
+		title:      "NORMAN'S APARTMENT",
+		background: names.BgNormanApartment,
+		onSelector: true,
+		exits: []exit{
+			{to: names.ScreenRooftopHideout, label: "the stairs up to the roof", side: sideBack},
+			{to: names.ScreenBBSTerminal, label: "Norman's terminal", side: sideRight},
+		},
+	}
+}

internal/content/screen/paul_shop.go

@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+package screen
+
+import "git.teletypegames.org/games/realworld/internal/names"
+
+// paulShop is where the game starts: the junk shop and garage Paul lives
+// behind (wiki: entities#helyszinek). It is the only screen outside San
+// Francisco — Noodle's letter arrives here and puts him on a bus
+// (wiki: entities, Paul's timeline 1–2).
+//
+// The bus is a screen the deck does not have, so the exit is the journey
+// itself: one way, with no coming back to the shop mid-story. That is also why
+// the shop is not on the selector — it is not one of the city's locations.
+func paulShop() screen {
+	return screen{
+		name:       names.ScreenPaulShop,
+		title:      "PAUL'S SHOP — JUNK AND GARAGE",
+		background: names.BgPaulShop,
+		exits: []exit{
+			{to: names.ScreenNoodleHouse, label: "the bus to San Francisco", side: sideNear},
+		},
+	}
+}

internal/content/screen/police_station.go

@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+package screen
+
+import "git.teletypegames.org/games/realworld/internal/names"
+
+// policeStation is where Noodle is held for dealing in cracked Armillas, and
+// where a clerk quietly tips Paul off about the hiding place
+// (wiki: entities, Paul's timeline 4 and 15).
+//
+// The wiki's graph splits it three ways — utcafront → recepció → kihallgató —
+// but the deck paints it as one screen, so the reception desk, the waiting
+// room and the interview window are hotspots inside this one, not screens of
+// their own.
+func policeStation() screen {
+	return screen{
+		name:       names.ScreenPoliceStation,
+		title:      "SFPD — STATION AND HOLDING",
+		background: names.BgPoliceStation,
+		onSelector: true,
+	}
+}

internal/content/screen/public_bbs.go

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+package screen
+
+import "git.teletypegames.org/games/realworld/internal/names"
+
+// publicBBS is one of the wiki's 💡 suggestions: the canon has BBS terminals
+// standing in cafés, post offices and bus stops — live infrastructure, not
+// relics. An alternative way to read the boards, in a place where somebody can
+// read over your shoulder (wiki: entities#potenciális-további-helyszínek).
+func publicBBS() screen {
+	return screen{
+		name:       names.ScreenPublicBBS,
+		title:      "PUBLIC BBS TERMINAL",
+		background: names.BgPublicBBS,
+		onSelector: true,
+	}
+}

internal/content/screen/rooftop_hideout.go

@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+package screen
+
+import "git.teletypegames.org/games/realworld/internal/names"
+
+// rooftopHideout is Norman's hiding place: an abandoned roof terrace with his
+// personal things, his notes and an old BBS terminal — the emotional high point
+// of the investigation (wiki: entities#helyszinek, timeline 23).
+//
+// It is up the stairs from his flat, and it is one of the places the catalogue
+// puts a terminal.
+func rooftopHideout() screen {
+	return screen{
+		name:       names.ScreenRooftopHideout,
+		title:      "NORMAN'S ROOFTOP HIDEOUT",
+		background: names.BgRooftopHideout,
+		exits: []exit{
+			{to: names.ScreenNormanApartment, label: "back down into the flat", side: sideNear},
+			{to: names.ScreenBBSTerminal, label: "the old terminal", side: sideRight},
+		},
+	}
+}

internal/content/screen/samizdat_press.go

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+package screen
+
+import "git.teletypegames.org/games/realworld/internal/names"
+
+// samizdatPress is a 💡 suggestion: the Resistance's physical node — parody
+// BVK databases, underground publications, a P2P node humming in the cellar.
+// The samizdat intellectuals are the first to write down that the world is
+// slipping (wiki: entities#potenciális-további-helyszínek).
+func samizdatPress() screen {
+	return screen{
+		name:       names.ScreenSamizdatPress,
+		title:      "SAMIZDAT PRINTING HOUSE",
+		background: names.BgSamizdatPress,
+		onSelector: true,
+	}
+}

internal/content/screen/scrap_market.go

@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+package screen
+
+import "git.teletypegames.org/games/realworld/internal/names"
+
+// scrapMarket is a 💡 suggestion: the black market in condemned ACPs and bare,
+// unstamped tape. Canon says the leak of scrap is not an accident — "something
+// wants to live on" (wiki: entities#potenciális-további-helyszínek).
+func scrapMarket() screen {
+	return screen{
+		name:       names.ScreenScrapMarket,
+		title:      "SCRAP MARKET",
+		background: names.BgScrapMarket,
+		onSelector: true,
+	}
+}

internal/content/screen/screen.go

@@ -0,0 +1,149 @@
+// Package screen registers the game's screens — one file per screen.
+//
+// "Screen" is this project's word: the wiki's catalogue, the concept-art deck
+// and the beat tables all count screens. inkwell's word for the same thing is
+// Scene, which is the type every file here returns — a screen IS the engine's
+// scene, and the rest of the code says "scene" only where it is talking to the
+// engine.
+//
+// A file here holds everything that is true of one screen: its picture, the
+// name on the top bar, where you can get to from it (exit.go), and — once its
+// beat is written — its hotspots, NPCs and dialogue. Only the alley has that
+// last part so far; the rest are greybox.
+package screen
+
+import (
+	inkwell "git.teletypegames.org/engines/inkwell"
+
+	"git.teletypegames.org/games/realworld/internal/names"
+	"git.teletypegames.org/games/realworld/internal/world"
+)
+
+// screen is what each file in this package fills in.
+type screen struct {
+	name       string
+	title      string
+	background string
+
+	// exits: where you can get to from here. See exit.go.
+	exits []exit
+	// onSelector marks a main location — one of those the wiki's
+	// Helyszínválasztó lists (story#helyszín-gráf-vázlat). It gets a way back
+	// to the selector for free, and the selector gets a way here.
+	onSelector bool
+
+	// What an authored beat adds on top. Zero values are fine: Paul lands in
+	// the middle of the default floor strip and nothing else happens.
+	hotspots  []inkwell.Hotspot
+	actors    []inkwell.SceneActor
+	walkboxes []inkwell.Polygon
+	onEnter   inkwell.Action
+}
+
+// deck is every screen in the game, in the order of the wiki's location
+// catalogue (entities#helyszinek) — which the concept-art deck follows number
+// for number. Registration order is this order, and it is also the order the
+// arrow keys walk (ui/screen_nav.go).
+//
+// Deck 05, Norman's workplace, is in the catalogue but has not been drawn, so
+// it has no file yet. The alley has no deck number: the catalogue keeps it in
+// the same row as Noodle's house, and that is where it sits here too.
+var deck = []func() screen{
+	paulShop,        // 01
+	noodleHouse,     // 02
+	alley,           // 02, same catalogue row
+	normanApartment, // 03
+	policeStation,   // 04
+	hackerspace,     // 06
+	iceCreamShop,    // 07
+	trinketShop,     // 08
+	smallRestaurant, // 09
+	secretClub,      // 10
+	bbsTerminal,     // 11
+	street,          // 12
+	hospital,        // 13
+	serverFarm,      // 14
+	secretLab,       // 15
+	rooftopHideout,  // 16
+	publicBBS,       // 17
+	bvkBranch,       // 18
+	curatorShop,     // 19
+	scrapMarket,     // 20
+	samizdatPress,   // 21
+	showroom,        // 22
+	columbarium,     // 23
+}
+
+// Register adds every screen to the game, the selector first: it is the centre
+// of the wiki's location graph, and it is built from the deck rather than
+// listed in it.
+func Register(w *world.World) {
+	screens := make([]screen, 0, len(deck)+1)
+	for _, f := range deck {
+		screens = append(screens, f())
+	}
+	for _, s := range append([]screen{selector(screens)}, screens...) {
+		w.G.SceneManager.Register(build(w, s))
+	}
+}
+
+// The default floor: the bottom of the scene region, above the HUD divider.
+// A screen with a painted floor of its own overrides it.
+var floor = []inkwell.Polygon{
+	inkwell.Poly(
+		inkwell.Point{X: 16, Y: 196}, inkwell.Point{X: 624, Y: 196},
+		inkwell.Point{X: 624, Y: 258}, inkwell.Point{X: 16, Y: 258},
+	),
+}
+
+// build turns a screen into the engine's scene.
+//
+// The authored hotspots go in front of the exits, because the engine takes the
+// first one whose area contains the click (HotspotAt): a painted thing beats
+// the edge strip an exit sits on, wherever the two overlap.
+func build(w *world.World, s screen) inkwell.Scene {
+	exits := s.exits
+	if s.onSelector {
+		exits = append(exits, toSelector())
+	}
+	hotspots := make([]inkwell.Hotspot, 0, len(exits)+len(s.hotspots))
+	hotspots = append(hotspots, s.hotspots...)
+	for _, e := range exits {
+		hotspots = append(hotspots, e.hotspot(w))
+	}
+
+	actors := s.actors
+	if actors == nil {
+		actors = []inkwell.SceneActor{
+			{CharacterName: names.Paul, At: inkwell.Point{X: 320, Y: 232}},
+		}
+	}
+	walkboxes := s.walkboxes
+	if walkboxes == nil {
+		walkboxes = floor
+	}
+	onEnter := inkwell.Action(world.EnterScene(w, s.name))
+	if s.onEnter != nil {
+		onEnter = inkwell.Seq(onEnter, s.onEnter)
+	}
+
+	return inkwell.Scene{
+		Name:       s.name,
+		Title:      s.title,
+		Background: s.background,
+		Actors:     actors,
+		Walkboxes:  walkboxes,
+		Hotspots:   hotspots,
+		OnEnter:    onEnter,
+	}
+}
+
+// setVarIfEmpty only writes when the variable is still unset, so re-entering a
+// screen does not clobber what the game has set in the meantime.
+func setVarIfEmpty(name string, v any) inkwell.Action {
+	return world.Fn(func(ctx *inkwell.Ctx) {
+		if ctx.Game.State.Var(name) == nil {
+			ctx.Game.State.SetVar(name, v)
+		}
+	})
+}

internal/content/screen/secret_club.go

@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+package screen
+
+import "git.teletypegames.org/games/realworld/internal/names"
+
+// secretClub is the empty room behind the shop where the "underwater sun"
+// company gave their talk, with a secretary who knows about the BVK's plans for
+// people's minds and nothing about the key or the tape
+// (wiki: story, the club beat).
+//
+// The terminal in here is the one that matters: not under BVK control, ECHO
+// running under the standard LECTOR surface. Reading it is where the mystery
+// tape finally speaks.
+func secretClub() screen {
+	return screen{
+		name:       names.ScreenSecretClub,
+		title:      "SECRET CLUB — THE UNDERWATER SUN",
+		background: names.BgSecretClub,
+		exits: []exit{
+			{to: names.ScreenBBSTerminal, label: "the terminal in the corner", side: sideBack},
+			{to: names.ScreenTrinketShop, label: "back out through the shop", side: sideNear},
+		},
+	}
+}

internal/content/screen/secret_lab.go

@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+package screen
+
+import "git.teletypegames.org/games/realworld/internal/names"
+
+// secretLab is the lab the BVK's secret section runs, where Norman lies wired
+// into the simulator: the two-thirds point where Paul finds him, and the
+// screen the finale plays on (wiki: entities#helyszinek, timeline 22 and 25).
+//
+// The wiki's graph runs Híd → security szoba → Norman szimulációs szobája, and
+// the story puts the whole thing inside the Golden Gate Bridge. The deck paints
+// it as one screen, so the door at the foot of the bridge, the observation room
+// and the glass wall are hotspots in here.
+func secretLab() screen {
+	return screen{
+		name:       names.ScreenSecretLab,
+		title:      "SECRET RESEARCH LABORATORY",
+		background: names.BgSecretLab,
+		onSelector: true,
+	}
+}

internal/content/screen/selector.go

@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+package screen
+
+import (
+	"strings"
+
+	inkwell "git.teletypegames.org/engines/inkwell"
+
+	"git.teletypegames.org/games/realworld/internal/names"
+)
+
+// selector is the wiki's Helyszínválasztó: "nem valódi helyszín, hanem a
+// menü-képernyő, ahonnan az összes fő helyszín elérhető"
+// (story#helyszínválasztó). The location graph is centred on it — every main
+// location connects to it both ways, and physical adjacency takes over from
+// there inwards — so without it the city is a handful of disconnected rooms.
+//
+// It is not in the concept-art deck and has no painting, so it renders as an
+// inkwell placeholder with one labelled pin per destination, laid out on a
+// grid. Whatever the map ends up looking like, the connections it carries are
+// the ones the screens declare, not a list kept here: selector() is built from
+// whichever screens marked themselves onSelector.
+func selector(rest []screen) screen {
+	var exits []exit
+	for _, s := range rest {
+		if !s.onSelector {
+			continue
+		}
+		exits = append(exits, exit{
+			to:    s.name,
+			label: pinLabel(s.title),
+			area:  pin(len(exits)),
+		})
+	}
+	return screen{
+		name:       names.ScreenSelector,
+		title:      "SAN FRANCISCO",
+		background: names.BgSelector,
+		exits:      exits,
+		// Nobody stands on a map.
+		actors:    []inkwell.SceneActor{},
+		walkboxes: []inkwell.Polygon{},
+	}
+}
+
+// The pin grid: three columns down the scene region, filled top to bottom.
+const (
+	pinCols = 3
+	pinW    = 192.0
+	pinH    = 32.0
+	pinX    = 16.0
+	pinY    = 28.0
+	pinGapX = 204.0
+	pinGapY = 38.0
+)
+
+func pin(i int) inkwell.Shape {
+	col, row := i%pinCols, i/pinCols
+	return inkwell.Rect(pinX+float64(col)*pinGapX, pinY+float64(row)*pinGapY, pinW, pinH)
+}
+
+// pinLabel is the screen's title without the em-dash subtitle: on a map a
+// location wants its name, not its description.
+func pinLabel(title string) string {
+	name, _, _ := strings.Cut(title, " — ")
+	return name
+}

internal/content/screen/server_farm.go

@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+package screen
+
+import "git.teletypegames.org/games/realworld/internal/names"
+
+// serverFarm is the cooled, humming corridors where The AI's physical
+// infrastructure can be seen for what it is. Getting in needs the access tape
+// from the hackerspace or from Noodle (wiki: entities, timeline 24).
+func serverFarm() screen {
+	return screen{
+		name:       names.ScreenServerFarm,
+		title:      "SERVER FARM",
+		background: names.BgServerFarm,
+		onSelector: true,
+	}
+}

internal/content/screen/showroom.go

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+package screen
+
+import "git.teletypegames.org/games/realworld/internal/names"
+
+// showroom is a 💡 suggestion: the legitimate, glittering side — Armilla
+// cabinets, licensed operators, matte-black Nokia-punk under showroom lights.
+// The contrast with Paul's edge of the world
+// (wiki: entities#potenciális-további-helyszínek).
+func showroom() screen {
+	return screen{
+		name:       names.ScreenShowroom,
+		title:      "NEUMATRONIC SHOWROOM",
+		background: names.BgShowroom,
+		onSelector: true,
+	}
+}

internal/content/screen/small_restaurant.go

@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+package screen
+
+import "git.teletypegames.org/games/realworld/internal/names"
+
+// smallRestaurant is the little Chinese place beside the trinket shop, and the
+// lit mirror in its toilet is the puzzle: it flickers, and something shows
+// behind it (wiki: story, the Kajálda beat).
+//
+// The wiki's graph runs Kajálda → étterem rész → WC; the deck paints all three
+// as one screen, so the mirror is a hotspot here. The only way out is back to
+// the shop — this is an inner room, not a location on the selector.
+func smallRestaurant() screen {
+	return screen{
+		name:       names.ScreenSmallRestaurant,
+		title:      "SMALL RESTAURANT — NEXT DOOR",
+		background: names.BgSmallRestaurant,
+		exits: []exit{
+			{to: names.ScreenTrinketShop, label: "back to the trinket shop", side: sideLeft},
+		},
+	}
+}

internal/content/screen/street.go

@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+package screen
+
+import "git.teletypegames.org/games/realworld/internal/names"
+
+// street is the city itself: pavements, a square, a metro entrance, and the
+// environmental decay that tracks The AI's spread — glitching systems, odd
+// news, infrastructure that slips (wiki: entities#helyszinek).
+//
+// The wiki's own street front is the one with the hotdog stand and Sumphor on
+// it (story#norman-lakása); that is a beat for this screen, not a screen of its
+// own.
+func street() screen {
+	return screen{
+		name:       names.ScreenStreet,
+		title:      "STREET",
+		background: names.BgStreet,
+		onSelector: true,
+	}
+}

internal/content/screen/trinket_shop.go

@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+package screen
+
+import "git.teletypegames.org/games/realworld/internal/names"
+
+// trinketShop is the Chinatown shop at the club's address, whose owner sells
+// Paul junk he does not need and is, in fact, the club's doorman
+// (wiki: story#csecsebecse-bolt--kajálda-szál).
+//
+// Both of the wiki's arrows out of it are here: Bolt → Kajálda, the eating
+// place next door, and Bolt →|beengedés| Klub, which stays shut until the
+// shopkeeper has been shown the underwater sun.
+func trinketShop() screen {
+	return screen{
+		name:       names.ScreenTrinketShop,
+		title:      "CHINATOWN — TRINKET SHOP",
+		background: names.BgTrinketShop,
+		onSelector: true,
+		exits: []exit{
+			{to: names.ScreenSmallRestaurant, label: "the eating place next door", side: sideRight},
+			{
+				to: names.ScreenSecretClub, label: "the way in at the back", side: sideBack,
+				needs:   names.FlagClubEntry,
+				blocked: "Just a shop, as far as the man behind the counter is concerned.",
+			},
+		},
+	}
+}

internal/names/names.go

@@ -46,20 +46,78 @@ const (
 	FlagPoliceTip = "police_tip"       // wiki: hatosagi_tipp
 	FlagHasTape   = "has_mystery_tape" // wiki: titokzatos_tape_megvan
 	FlagTapeSpoke = "tape_spoke"       // wiki: tape_megszolalt
+	FlagClubEntry = "club_entry"       // wiki: klub_bejutas — the shopkeeper let Paul through
 
 	VarSlot2        = "armilla.slot2"
 	VarArmillaStrip = "armilla.strip"
 	VarDecay        = "decay_level" // wiki: romlas_szint
 )
 
-// Scenes.
+// Screens.
+//
+// One constant per screen in the wiki's location catalogue
+// (entities#helyszinek), whose order the concept-art deck follows number for
+// number (games/realworld_screen_assets); the trailing comment is the wiki's
+// Hungarian name. The last seven are the catalogue's "javaslat" locations —
+// drawn, so they are wired up, but no beat lands on them yet.
+//
+// Two screens have no deck number. The alley shares the catalogue's "Noodle
+// háza & a sikátor" row with the house; the selector is the wiki's
+// Helyszínválasztó (story#helyszínválasztó), the menu screen the location
+// graph is centred on.
 const (
-	SceneAlley = "alley" // wiki: sikator
+	ScreenSelector        = "selector"         // wiki: Helyszínválasztó
+	ScreenPaulShop        = "paul_shop"        // wiki: Paul boltja / garázsa
+	ScreenNoodleHouse     = "noodle_house"     // wiki: Noodle háza
+	ScreenNormanApartment = "norman_apartment" // wiki: Norman lakása / műhelye
+	ScreenPoliceStation   = "police_station"   // wiki: rendőrség / fogda
+	ScreenAlley           = "alley"            // wiki: sikátor (Noodle háza mögött)
+	ScreenHackerspace     = "hackerspace"      // wiki: hackerspace
+	ScreenIceCreamShop    = "ice_cream_shop"   // wiki: fagyizó
+	ScreenTrinketShop     = "trinket_shop"     // wiki: chinatowni csecsebecse-bolt
+	ScreenSmallRestaurant = "small_restaurant" // wiki: kajálda
+	ScreenSecretClub      = "secret_club"      // wiki: titkos klub („vízalatti nap")
+	ScreenBBSTerminal     = "bbs_terminal"     // wiki: a terminál / BBS-hozzáférési pont
+	ScreenStreet          = "street"           // wiki: köztér / utca
+	ScreenHospital        = "hospital"         // wiki: kórház / pszichiátria
+	ScreenServerFarm      = "server_farm"      // wiki: szerverfarm / adatközpont
+	ScreenSecretLab       = "secret_lab"       // wiki: titkos kutatólabor
+	ScreenRooftopHideout  = "rooftop_hideout"  // wiki: Norman tetőterasz-rejteke
+	ScreenPublicBBS       = "public_bbs"       // wiki 💡: nyilvános BBS-terminál
+	ScreenBVKBranch       = "bvk_branch"       // wiki 💡: BVK-kirendeltség (San Francisco)
+	ScreenCuratorShop     = "curator_shop"     // wiki 💡: kurátor-szerviz („a Mester")
+	ScreenScrapMarket     = "scrap_market"     // wiki 💡: selejt-piac
+	ScreenSamizdatPress   = "samizdat_press"   // wiki 💡: samizdat-nyomda / P2P-csomópont
+	ScreenShowroom        = "showroom"         // wiki 💡: Neumatronic márkakereskedés
+	ScreenColumbarium     = "columbarium"      // wiki 💡: kolumbárium / Dex emlékhelye
 )
 
-// Assets.
+// Backgrounds — one per screen, same order.
 const (
-	AssetAlleyBG = "bg_alley"
+	BgSelector        = "bg_selector"
+	BgPaulShop        = "bg_paul_shop"
+	BgNoodleHouse     = "bg_noodle_house"
+	BgNormanApartment = "bg_norman_apartment"
+	BgPoliceStation   = "bg_police_station"
+	BgAlley           = "bg_alley"
+	BgHackerspace     = "bg_hackerspace"
+	BgIceCreamShop    = "bg_ice_cream_shop"
+	BgTrinketShop     = "bg_trinket_shop"
+	BgSmallRestaurant = "bg_small_restaurant"
+	BgSecretClub      = "bg_secret_club"
+	BgBBSTerminal     = "bg_bbs_terminal"
+	BgStreet          = "bg_street"
+	BgHospital        = "bg_hospital"
+	BgServerFarm      = "bg_server_farm"
+	BgSecretLab       = "bg_secret_lab"
+	BgRooftopHideout  = "bg_rooftop_hideout"
+	BgPublicBBS       = "bg_public_bbs"
+	BgBVKBranch       = "bg_bvk_branch"
+	BgCuratorShop     = "bg_curator_shop"
+	BgScrapMarket     = "bg_scrap_market"
+	BgSamizdatPress   = "bg_samizdat_press"
+	BgShowroom        = "bg_showroom"
+	BgColumbarium     = "bg_columbarium"
 )
 
 // Tapes maps a character name to the label shown in the tape channel header.

internal/ui/screen_nav.go

@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+package ui
+
+// screenNav — walking the deck with the arrow keys.
+//
+// The screens are connected — each one records where you can get to from it
+// (content/screen/exit.go) — but walking the map is the player's job, and a
+// screen whose beat is not written yet has nothing in it to walk towards. LEFT
+// and RIGHT step to the previous and next screen so the deck can be reviewed as
+// a deck: in concept-art order, wrapping at both ends. It is a tool for looking
+// at the game, not a way through it.
+//
+// It is deliberately inert whenever the game is actually doing something: no
+// stepping out of a cutscene, a menu, or a stopped world during dialogue. So
+// once a beat owns a screen, this cannot cut across it.
+
+import (
+	inkwell "git.teletypegames.org/engines/inkwell"
+	"github.com/hajimehoshi/ebiten/v2"
+	"github.com/hajimehoshi/ebiten/v2/inpututil"
+
+	"git.teletypegames.org/games/realworld/internal/world"
+)
+
+type screenNav struct {
+	Name string
+	W    *world.World
+}
+
+func (n *screenNav) GetName() string                            { return n.Name }
+func (n *screenNav) Draw(dst *ebiten.Image, ctx *inkwell.UICtx) {}
+
+func (n *screenNav) Tick(ctx *inkwell.UICtx) {
+	if !n.W.HUDVisible() || n.W.Paused() {
+		return
+	}
+	step := 0
+	// inkwell's Input only covers the mouse; read the keys directly.
+	switch {
+	case inpututil.IsKeyJustPressed(ebiten.KeyArrowRight):
+		step = 1
+	case inpututil.IsKeyJustPressed(ebiten.KeyArrowLeft):
+		step = -1
+	default:
+		return
+	}
+	if next := n.neighbour(ctx.Game, step); next != "" {
+		n.W.Do(inkwell.GoTo(next))
+	}
+}
+
+// neighbour returns the screen step places from the current one, wrapping.
+// Registration order is the deck order — see content/screen/screen.go.
+func (n *screenNav) neighbour(g *inkwell.Game, step int) string {
+	deck := g.SceneManager.Names()
+	if len(deck) < 2 {
+		return ""
+	}
+	for i, name := range deck {
+		if name == n.W.Scene() {
+			return deck[((i+step)%len(deck)+len(deck))%len(deck)]
+		}
+	}
+	return deck[0]
+}

internal/ui/screen_nav_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+package ui
+
+import (
+	"testing"
+
+	inkwell "git.teletypegames.org/engines/inkwell"
+
+	"git.teletypegames.org/games/realworld/internal/world"
+)
+
+// The arrow keys walk the deck in registration order and wrap at both ends —
+// until the beats grow doors, that walk is the only way through most screens,
+// so a dead end at either end would strand the player on a greybox screen.
+func TestScreenNavWrapsBothWays(t *testing.T) {
+	g := inkwell.NewGame("t", ScreenW, ScreenH)
+	for _, n := range []string{"a", "b", "c"} {
+		g.SceneManager.Register(inkwell.Scene{Name: n, Background: "bg"})
+	}
+	w := world.New(g)
+	nav := &screenNav{Name: "screen_nav", W: w}
+	at := func(name string) { world.EnterScene(w, name).Start().Tick(&inkwell.Ctx{Game: g}) }
+
+	for _, tc := range []struct {
+		from string
+		step int
+		want string
+	}{
+		{"a", 1, "b"}, {"b", 1, "c"}, {"c", 1, "a"},
+		{"c", -1, "b"}, {"b", -1, "a"}, {"a", -1, "c"},
+	} {
+		at(tc.from)
+		if got := nav.neighbour(g, tc.step); got != tc.want {
+			t.Errorf("from %q step %+d = %q, want %q", tc.from, tc.step, got, tc.want)
+		}
+	}
+}

internal/ui/ui.go

@@ -7,26 +7,31 @@ package ui
 //	 0 │ ALLEY — paused                              SRP: 1 tape            │ TopBar (20)
 //	20 ├────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
 //	   │                                                                    │
-//	   │            scene — hotspots, characters, SpeechBubble              │ Scene (244)
+//	   │            scene — hotspots, characters, SpeechBubble              │ Scene (242)
 //	   │                                                                    │
-//	264├─────────────────────────────────────────┬──────────────────────────┤
+//	262├─────────────────────────────────────────┬──────────────────────────┤
 //	   │ Use hook on: floor grate                │ DEX                      │
-//	   │ ┌───┬───┬───┬───┐   ┌───────┐┌────────┐ │ "The hook is a hand      │ HUD (135)
+//	   │ ┌───┬───┬───┬───┐   ┌───────┐┌────────┐ │ "The hook is a hand      │ HUD (118)
 //	   │ ├───┼───┼───┼───┤   │ 1 DEX ││ 2  —   │ │  shorter than the gap."  │
-//	   │ └───┴───┴───┴───┘   └───────┘└────────┘ │                          │
-//	399└─────────────────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────┘
+//	379└─────────────────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────┘
 //	     InventoryBar          TapeSlots           TapeChannel
 //
-// On the resolution: the wiki's art brief asks for a "320×200 VGA look", and
-// inkwell's widget defaults are authored for exactly that. We render at 640×400
-// — the same 16:10, exactly 2× the brief, so art drawn at 320×200 upscales
-// cleanly — because the engine's text is a fixed 6×16 debug font. At 320×200 a
-// 16px glyph is 8% of the screen height and nothing fits; at 640×400 it lands
-// at 4%, which is the proportion the design was drawn for.
+// On the resolution: the screen is exactly one painted background. inkwell
+// stretches a scene background over the WHOLE screen (core.engine.go), not over
+// the region left free by the HUD, so any screen size other than the art's own
+// squashes every painting — and the deck is drawn at 640×380
+// (games/realworld_screen_assets). Hence 640×380: the art lands pixel for
+// pixel, and the HUD is an opaque strip laid over its foot.
 //
-// Everything vertical is derived from LineH below rather than from the
-// wireframe deck's ratios, so the layout cannot drift out of step with the font
-// again.
+// That still satisfies what the wiki's "320×200 VGA look" brief was after — a
+// low, wide VGA frame at an exact 2× of a 320-wide canvas — and it still keeps
+// the engine's fixed 6×16 debug font readable: a 16px glyph is 4% of 380, the
+// proportion the design was drawn for. (At 320×190 it would be 8%, rows would
+// overlap and the top bar could not hold a line.)
+//
+// Everything vertical is derived from LineH and from ScreenH below, never from
+// the wireframe deck's ratios, so the layout cannot drift out of step with the
+// font — or with the art — again.
 
 import (
 	inkwell "git.teletypegames.org/engines/inkwell"
@@ -39,8 +44,11 @@ import (
 
 // Screen and layout, in internal (unscaled) pixels.
 const (
+	// The screen is the size of one painted background, because the engine
+	// scales a background to the full screen: at any other size the art is
+	// squashed. See the note above.
 	ScreenW = 640
-	ScreenH = 400
+	ScreenH = 380
 
 	// LineH is one text row: the glyph cell plus leading. Every text-bearing
 	// box is sized as a multiple of this, so rows can never overlap.
@@ -48,14 +56,21 @@ const (
 	Pad   = 6          // inner padding for every panel
 
 	TopBarH  = LineH + 2 // 20 — one row plus a hairline of breathing room
-	HUDTop   = 264       // the scene | HUD divider
 	DividerX = 394       // world | tape channel (61.6% of the width)
 
+	// The HUD strip is as short as its own contents allow, and is measured
+	// from the bottom of the screen — every pixel it takes is a pixel of the
+	// painting it covers. It has to hold the status row and, under it, the two
+	// rows of inventory slots (the tallest thing in the strip), padded above
+	// and below.
+	HUDH   = Pad + LineH + 4 + invSlot*2 + invGap + Pad // 118
+	HUDTop = ScreenH - HUDH                             // 262 — the scene | HUD divider
+
 	// Derived HUD rows.
-	statusY = HUDTop + Pad         // 270
-	slotsY  = HUDTop + Pad + LineH // 288
+	statusY = HUDTop + Pad         // 268
+	slotsY  = HUDTop + Pad + LineH // 286
 	slotsH  = LineH*2 + Pad*2      // 48 — two rows plus padding
-	invY    = slotsY + 4           // 292
+	invY    = slotsY + 4           // 290
 	invSlot = 40
 	invGap  = 4
 )
@@ -70,6 +85,7 @@ func Register(w *world.World) {
 	// it does, and it only ever catches clicks that land on the scene.
 	g.UIManager.Register(&UseWithGuard{Name: "usewith_guard", W: w})
 	g.UIManager.Register(&world.ActionPump{Name: "pump", W: w})
+	g.UIManager.Register(&screenNav{Name: "screen_nav", W: w})
 	g.UIManager.Register(&windowSizer{Name: "window", Scale: 2})
 	g.UIManager.Register(&inkwell.HotspotDebug{Name: "hotspot_debug"})
 
@@ -129,8 +145,8 @@ func Register(w *world.World) {
 
 // windowSizer resizes the window once, on the first frame.
 //
-// inkwell.Run hardcodes a 4× window (core.dsl.go), which at 640×400 would be
-// 2560×1600 — larger than most laptop screens. Run sets the size before
+// inkwell.Run hardcodes a 4× window (core.dsl.go), which at 640×380 would be
+// 2560×1520 — larger than most laptop screens. Run sets the size before
 // entering the loop, so the only place to override it is the first tick.
 type windowSizer struct {
 	Name  string

internal/world/action.go

@@ -104,7 +104,27 @@ func SetMode(w *World, m Mode) inkwell.Action {
 // EnterScene tells the domain which scene we are in. inkwell exposes no
 // CurrentScene accessor, and the pump needs Ctx.Scene.
 func EnterScene(w *World, name string) inkwell.Action {
-	return Fn(func(*inkwell.Ctx) { w.scene = name })
+	return Fn(func(*inkwell.Ctx) {
+		if name != w.scene {
+			w.prev = w.scene
+		}
+		w.scene = name
+	})
+}
+
+// Back returns to the screen we came from.
+//
+// Most exits name their destination, because a door leads where it leads. A
+// screen that is reached from several different rooms cannot: the BBS terminal
+// is the same terminal whether you walked to it from the club, from Norman's
+// flat or from the roof, so its way out is "back", not a place.
+func Back(w *World) inkwell.Action {
+	return Fn(func(ctx *inkwell.Ctx) {
+		if w.prev == "" {
+			return
+		}
+		inkwell.GoTo(w.prev).Start().Tick(ctx)
+	})
 }
 
 // ----- TapeSay ----------------------------------------------------------

internal/world/world.go

@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ type World struct {
 	mode Mode
 
 	scene   string           // current scene — inkwell exposes no accessor for it
+	prev    string           // the one before it, for screens with no fixed way out
 	paused  bool             // is the world stopped (during dialogue), for the TopBar suffix
 	pending string           // the tape currently being loaded into slot 2
 	queue   []inkwell.Action // HUD-originated actions waiting to run
@@ -63,6 +64,9 @@ func (w *World) HUDVisible() bool { return w.mode == ModePlay }
 // Scene returns the name of the current scene.
 func (w *World) Scene() string { return w.scene }
 
+// Previous returns the screen we came from, empty at the start of the game.
+func (w *World) Previous() string { return w.prev }
+
 // Paused reports whether the world is stopped (during dialogue).
 func (w *World) Paused() bool { return w.paused }
 

main.go

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 package main
 
 import (
+	"embed"
 	"flag"
 	"log"
 
@@ -9,9 +10,19 @@ import (
 	"git.teletypegames.org/games/realworld/internal/boot"
 )
 
+// The art ships inside the binary. js/wasm has no OS filesystem, so without
+// this every background in the web build falls back to a placeholder; and
+// `make binaries` packages the executable alone, with no assets directory
+// beside it.
+//
+//go:embed assets
+var assets embed.FS
+
+func init() { inkwell.AssetFS = assets }
+
 func main() {
 	var o boot.Opts
-	flag.StringVar(&o.Scene, "scene", "", "starting scene (empty: the alley)")
+	flag.StringVar(&o.Screen, "screen", "", "starting screen (empty: the alley)")
 	flag.BoolVar(&o.Finale, "finale", false,
 		"start with the finale, to try the Nokia-punk theme switch")
 	flag.Parse()