Glyph Crypt

A neon slide-maze arcade game for the browser. Flick a direction — the glyph slides until it hits a wall. Sweep up the star-dots, grab all 3 big stars, and slide from the start to the glowing gate. Dead-ends bite: spikes wait at the tips.

Originally a single-file prototype; rebuilt as a typed, tested, modular Vite project. The name and theming are original to avoid any IP overlap with similarly-themed games.

Play

Live: https://arqui2709.github.io/Glyph_Crypt/

Controls: arrow keys / WASD, or swipe on touch.

Develop

Requires Node 20+ and pnpm.

pnpm install      # install dependencies
pnpm dev          # Vite dev server with HMR
pnpm test         # run the Vitest unit suite
pnpm test:watch   # tests in watch mode
pnpm typecheck    # tsc --noEmit
pnpm build        # typecheck + production build to dist/
pnpm preview      # serve the production build locally

When developing locally the production base is /Glyph_Crypt/; pnpm dev serves from /.

Architecture

See CLAUDE.md for the module map and design notes. In short:

• src/core — pure, seeded game generation: rng, maze, coverage, level. Deterministic per chamber index, so layouts are reproducible and unit-testable.
• src/game — runtime state machine, movement (slide physics), fixed-timestep loop.
• src/render — canvas drawing and the neon theme (single source of truth for colors).
• src/input — keyboard and touch.
• src/ui — overlays, HUD, and the world-map level select.
• src/storage — localStorage progress (best stars + unlock state per chamber).

Deploy

Pushing to main runs .github/workflows/deploy.yml: it installs, tests, builds, and publishes dist/ to GitHub Pages.

One-time setup: in the GitHub repo's Settings → Pages set the source to GitHub Actions. Push to main and the workflow deploys automatically.

git remote add origin https://github.com/ARQUI2709/Glyph_Crypt.git
git push -u origin main

The deploy base in vite.config.ts must match the repo name (/Glyph_Crypt/).