Two skins over one game. 1979 is the machine as it was; the remaster is
the same rules in cel-shaded vector art with a modern palette. The
simulation is untouched - only the paint differs - and the toggle sits
under the set.
The street is now driven by the game. Before prices are in, the number
of people walking on comes from the forecast; afterwards it comes from
the glasses that actually sold, so the report shows the crowd you
earned. A heat wave has them fanning themselves; a downpour leaves one
figure hurrying past under an umbrella.
Selling no longer snaps straight to the books. The stand trades for a
few seconds first, tally climbing and till filling, which is where that
crowd animation pays off. Skippable.
The synth grew a kit (pitched-sine kick, snare with body, hats), a
sweeping resonant lowpass for the bass, chords and a shuffle - enough
for a funk band. The chiptunes stay for the 1979 skin.
Boot is now a cassette load, which doubles as the gesture browsers
require before audio will play.
Fixes found on the way: the picture scaled about its centre while flex
auto-margins collapsed to zero on overflow, which pushed the report's
buttons off the bottom; and the validation line moved the button when
it appeared, so it is now reserved and faded. Sibling tabs in one
browser also keep their score tables in step.
Retiring writes each player's closing balance to a top-ten table in
localStorage, reachable from the title screen and the standings, with
the summer just finished picked out in yellow.
Stored rows are user-editable, so every field is validated on load and
malformed entries are dropped. Storage being unavailable is a normal
case, not an error: the game plays on with an empty table.
Also stops the status line claiming DAY 00 on screens that have no day.
Faithful day loop - weather report, cost of lemonade rising over the
summer, glasses/signs/price decisions, thunderstorms, heat waves and
street crews - with the $$ LEMONSVILLE DAILY FINANCIAL REPORT $$ laid
out the way it printed.
The simulation is kept out of React so a season can be run headlessly:
a careful player compounds $2.00 into roughly $22 over twelve days,
while an all-in player goes broke about seven times in ten.
Weather scenes are pixel rectangles in SVG and the music is a small
chiptune engine on the Web Audio API, so there are no binary assets.
The screen is locked to a 4:3 tube and never scrolls.
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