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Demoscene Simulator v0.1.0 — initial release

Demoscene Simulator v0.1.0 in-game CRT demo screen preview

Above: SVG mockup of the in-game CRT demo screen (raster bars, vector cube, sine-scroller, HUD) — a stand-in for v0.1.0. v0.2.0 will replace this with a real PNG screenshot + a 30-second animated GIF of the demo screen playing.

What's shipped in v0.1.0

The initial public release of the Demoscene Simulator — a 1985–2005 life-sim of the demoscene built on a deterministic event-sourced kernel. You pick a crew name, hustle hardware and freelance gigs, ship demos at era-appropriate parties, and watch the scene evolve from C64 cracktros in disk-swapping gymnasiums all the way through the early-2000s 3D-shader revolution.

Highlights

  • Three-layer architecture (/sim, /apps, /packages) — strict rules forbid React/fetch/setState inside /sim and forbid re-declared sim-facing types outside @packages/types.
  • Event-sourced kernel — discriminated SimEvent union (now 30 variants), pure reduce(state, event) → state, deterministic SimulationLoop with a StrictMode-safe reset pattern, append-only eventStore with on(type | "*") subscribe.
  • Deterministic event-sourced economy system — money / hardware / software / freelance jobs / sponsors, with trust-weighted NPC payouts (an NPC cognitive.trustGraph["__player__"] modulates template.basePayment between 0.85× and 1.35×) and wear-level decay recomputed deterministically in the projection (1 quarter-year per reliability point). Driven by the M1 double-store money-flow pattern — paired MoneySpent + HardwarePurchased dispatches instead of a single composed event.
  • MainMenu + ApiKeyBootstrap — splash overlay (New Game / Continue / Load-from-file) plus first-run Gemini API key entry.
  • Electron + electron-builder — packaged as NSIS installer + portable Windows x64 with auto-update latest.yml.

New

  • @packages/types + @packages/utils shared packages — single source of truth for Character, Production, PlatformId, BBSThread, etc.; pure helpers (generateId, simTimestamp, advanceMonths, MONTH_NAMES).
  • Typed seed data under sim/data/ — HISTORICAL_PLATFORMS, DEMO_EFFECTS, TECHNOLOGY_TREE, INITIAL_NPCS, INITIAL_GROUPS, PARTY_CALENDAR, RIVAL_RELEASES.
  • Path aliases in lock-step between tsconfig.json and vite.config.ts — @packages/types, @packages/utils, @sim, @sim/data, @sim/events, @sim/engine, @tools, @apps/*.
  • Economy catalogs: 23 hardware SKUs (C64-era 8-bit through 2005 GeForce 256 / Radeon DDR shader parts), 12 freelance job templates (1985–2005), 12 software offerings (assemblers, trackers, image editors, compressors), 5 late-game sponsor deals keyed off reputation milestones.
  • Smoke tests — dispatchStampedEvent (locks the "never dispatch(emit.*) / dispatch(appendEvent)" rule), audit-docs (doc-vs-exports parity), loadDuringImport (autosave re-hydration under reload).
  • Dynamic crew-name propagation in src/App.tsx — mount-time useEffect rewrites BBS reply / recruit / release-flow / party-memory / alliance-message / cognitive-stats UI to use the player's typed crew name. No more "Tricycle Crews" bake when you pick a custom name.
  • Expanded 1985–2005 demoparty calendar — 13 era-appropriate venues across four eras (crack/C64, Amiga-dominant, 16-bit-peak + early-3D-card, 3D-shader revolution).
  • <FullscreenDemoView/> (src/components/DemoScreen.tsx) — portal-rendered native-res effects playback. ESC / F / Exit-button close. New paintDemoFrame module-level helper keeps the inline card and the fullscreen view visually identical without sharing animation state across portals.
  • <EconomyPanel/> (src/components/EconomyPanel.tsx, 705 lines) — live economy UI subscribed to eventStore.on("*") and re-derived each tick purely through the economicsView projection (no WorldState mutation, no dispatch from inside projections). Renders balance / net-worth / hardware inventory with wear-level decay / freelance job board filtered by year + reputation / available sponsorships / recent ledger entries, and exposes player actions: buy hardware, buy software, take job, sign sponsorship.

Changed

  • Party-rivals logic in App.tsx — typed RIVAL_RELEASES filter (year / disbanded / focus-band predicates) replaces the inline 4-rival hardcoded array.
  • <DemoScreen/> — inline CRT now delegates every effect (raster bars, starfield, plasma, pixel fire, vector cube / pyramid, tunnel, sine scroller, HUD) to the shared paintDemoFrame painter so the inline + fullscreen surfaces stay visually identical without sharing animation state.

Fixed

  • BBS reply / recruit, release flow, party memories, alliance messages, cognitive stats UI no longer hardcode "Tricycle Crews" when a custom crew name is picked.
  • sim/engine/reducer.ts::emptyWorldState.groupName hardcode flagged with a TODO(dynamic-name) for the eventual event-sourced hydrate path (current UI bypasses this through MainMenu's setPlayerGroupName).
  • EconomyPanel post-launch nit cleanup:
    • Force-render setter renamed setTick → _tick (underscore-prefixed, comment block explains the non-standard role).
    • Recent-ledger rows now render sim-month labels (Y1985 M11-style) via a module-level ledgerMonthLabel(ts) helper. Helper math uses ((ts - 1) % 12) + 1 so the December → January boundary does not inflate the displayed year.
    • SOFTWARE_CATALOG empty-state now distinguishes "catalog itself empty (data missing)" from "filtered to empty for the current year" — the player sees an actionable CTA.

Removed

  • Stale "tricycle" sentinel keyword from src/App.tsx::handlePostCustomBbsMessage recruitKeywords — recruit detection is now purely intent-based.
  • src/data.ts and src/types.ts — merged into @sim/data and @packages/types.

Download options

File What it is
Demoscene Simulator Setup 0.1.0.exe NSIS installer (recommended — writes Start Menu + Programs & Features entry).
Demoscene Simulator-Portable-0.1.0.exe Portable — no install, run from any folder.
Demoscene Simulator Setup 0.1.0.exe.blockmap Auto-update blockmap (delta-update metadata for electron-updater).
latest.yml Auto-update channel manifest (consumed by electron-updater).
preview.svg This SVG mockup of the in-game CRT demo screen. Removed in v0.2.0 in favor of a real PNG + GIF.

Both Windows binaries are signed by electron-builder's default signing identity (no code-signing cert configured). Auto-update will work for users running from the NSIS install path.

*README / GDD / triage: https://github.com/TimoP80/Scene_SImulator · Issues / v0.2.0 planning: https://github.com/TimoP80/Scene_SImulator/issues

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